Medicine & infectious disease Videos Recommended on Hacker News (113)
Medicine & infectious disease is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 113 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 359 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Medicine: diseases, vaccines, pandemics, COVID-19, epidemiology, public health, WHO, cancer, surgery, medical technology, drug development, aging research, healthcare quality.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH: “This is one of the best nutritional videos I've ever seen.” — an HN commenter, 2010.
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2 mo on HNDavid Sinclair | Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To | Talks at Google
2 mo on HNEvidence-Based Weight Loss: Live Presentation
2 mo on HNAll you need to know to understand 5G
2 mo on HNVitamin D and Immunity, Lots of Evidence
2 mo on HNCoronavirus Update 98: Rapid COVID 19 Antigen Testing at Home - A Possible Breakthrough
2 mo on HNCyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?
2 mo on HNDr. Matthew Phillips - 'Metabolic Strategies as Therapies in Cancer and Neurodegeneration'
2 mo on HNHow Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & COVID 19 Treatment
2 mo on HNWhy Are American Health Care Costs So High?
2 mo on HNMilton Friedman Speaks: The Economics of Medical Care (B1234) - Full Video
2 mo on HNHow the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane
1 mo on HNFoodGate: The Break-in, the Cover-up, & the Aftermath
1 mo on HNNeurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound | 60 Minutes
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1439 - Michael Osterholm
1 mo on HNExponential growth and epidemics
1 mo on HNA Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
1 mo on HNMarketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
1 mo on HNIs 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt
1 mo on HNA man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell
1 mo on HNMartin Shkreli on Drug Price Hikes and Playing the World’s Villain
1 mo on HNProject "Iron Auntie" Success! Helping one of the last polio survivors in an iron lung.
1 mo on HNHow dangerous are magnetic items near an MRI magnet?
1 mo on HNCOVID-19: A Second Opinion
1 mo on HNThe IGF-1 Trade-Off: Performance vs. Longevity
1 mo on HNAdam Ruins Everything - The Real Reason Hospitals Are So Expensive | truTV
1 mo on HNWhat Microplastics Are Doing to the Brain, Body, and Reproductive Systems
1 mo on HNWhite Blood Cell Chases Bacteria
1 mo on HNCan we eat to starve cancer? - William Li
1 mo on HNMarch 2020: Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Dr Jon LaPook about Covid-19
1 mo on HNExercise Is Really Good for You. Like, REALLY Good for You.
1 mo on HNFauci in the Hall of the Mountain King
1 mo on HNGiving birth costs a lot. Hospitals won't tell you how much.
1 mo on HNOrgan & Body Donations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
1 mo on HNGenetic Engineering and Diseases – Gene Drive & Malaria
1 mo on HNVitamin D and immunity
1 mo on HNHow we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
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Mentioned in HN threads about medicine & infectious disease, though never formally recommended:
Senior WHO official dodges questions about Taiwan’s WHO membership; praises China · Geoff Hinton: On Radiology · TWiV 615: Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance · An Update On Dianna's Health · Harris On Vaccine: 'If Donald Trump Tells Us To Take It, I’m Not Taking It.' | NBC News · How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it) · 旷野青春 | 隐形防线（英文字幕版） · President Trump claims injecting people with disinfectant could treat coronavirus · A real, not-clickbaity, average Chinese wet market · President Trump Suggests ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant as Coronavirus Cure | NBC New York · Why Weren't We Wearing Masks From the Beginning? Dr. Anthony Fauci Explains · Virtuo Vivo™ live scanning at IDS 2019 · Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant Into The Body To Treat Coronavirus | MSNBC · Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives · How Fox News has shifted its coronavirus rhetoric · OSCON 2011: Karen Sandler · Original Zoloft Commercial · Dr.Christina Sanchez explains how cannabis kills cancer cells (MORE at cureyourowncancer.org) · New Laser Zaps Mosquitoes in SlowMotion | National Geographic · Drone Delivery Start-Up Zipline Beats Amazon, UPS And FedEx To The Punch | CNBC · Resveratrol – The Unfortunate (& Scandalous) Story · Infant girl with whooping cough · TWiV 641: COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci · More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette · ✖️Coronavirus TIMELINE · Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids' Care · First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl) · British Army on LSD (Acid) drugs