medical science

  • Behind The Mysterious Powers Of The Placebo Effect

    Behind The Mysterious Powers Of The Placebo Effect

    Video: The placebo effect is real, we all know that. Our bodies can be tricked into getting better and healthier even when we’re take taking sugar pills or fake drugs or undergoing treatment that isn’t even supposed to help us get better. If we believe it will help, it sometimes really does help. TED-Ed dives…


  • How A Human Lung Is Kept Alive And Breathing For A Transplant

    How A Human Lung Is Kept Alive And Breathing For A Transplant

    It’s a pumping lung in a box, basically. Al Jazeera America specifies that its more properly known as the Organ Care System (OCS), but it’s basically a human donor lung being kept alive and breathing out of the body inside a box. The OCS machine is used to keep the blood and oxygen flowing to…