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3) Kill or Cure
Series
Kill or Cure volume Series 1
Language
English
Description
When polio vaccines were first developed, many experts thought the disease would be fully eradicated within decades. Tragically, as this film shows, it has survived in places like Afghanistan and northern Nigeria. These locations are now acting as disease reservoirs, with children the hardest-hit demographic and with travelers re-infecting other countries once thought invulnerable. Additionally, in the pre-vaccine world, everyone had a degree of natural...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are developing a universal flu vaccine. A brand new vaccine against seasonal flu has to be created once a year for both the northern and southern hemispheres. The constant and rapid evolution of the virus means an effective vaccine this year, can be useless by the next. Scientists in Belgium are determined to beat the virus by producing a vaccine that works long-term, against many types of flu, including pandemic strains. Professor Saelens...
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English
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This program teaches pregnant women with gestational diabetes how to keep their blood glucose in a safe and healthy range. Content Includes: gestational diabetes overview, a management plan, and as baby grows. A Milner-Fenwick production, in collaboration with the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
9) Diabetes
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Language
English
Description
Learn the many feelings that your loved ones might have about your diagnosis and the importance of honest and open communication.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Heart disease is the number one killer of women, but many women do not know the facts. This video reviews heart disease risk factors specific to women, including the use of hormone replacement therapy. It includes a review of the warning signs of a heart attack and emphasizes that women be proactive in their healthcare. A chapter devoted to reducing risk factors through lifestyle changes can help the patient take steps to better health. This video...
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English
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According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, and the American Cancer Society estimates that the lifetime risk of breast cancer will rise to one in seven women by the year 2024. This program shows how breast cancer develops, how can it be detected and diagnosed, and how it is typically treated. Sophisticated 3D graphics show the way breast tumors form and grow, as well as how they ideally...
13) Second Opinion
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Language
English
Description
Schizoaffective disorder is a form of psychosis and a mental illness in which a person experiences a combination of schizophrenia symptoms. People affected often have hallucinations or delusions, as well as mood disorder symptoms such as mania or depression. We meet Lynne Fisher, whose life was turned upside down by the onset of this illness, as she battled through five years of symptoms to find a treatment plan that enables her to live a constructive...
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English
Description
The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world’s leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. A doomsday scenario! Such outbreaks happen two or three times every hundred years. We are due one now—and the avian flu strain H5N1 is the most likely candidate for a future pandemic. The last catastrophic flu...
15) Survival
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sleeping Sickness is the deadliest disease in the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo suffers more cases than any other country. Without treatment, parasites called trypanosomes invade the victim’s brain, ravage their sleep cycle, driving them mad before finally killing them. But dedicated doctors and medics are fighting back. We tell the stories of those who have lost family to the disease and of the lucky ones who have survived this deadly...
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Pub. Date
[2006], c2001
Language
English
Description
Because of constant use of disinfectants, a hospital is a place where only the fittest microbes survive, a dilemma that raises the stakes of even routine surgical procedures. This program looks at how germs develop partial or total antibiotic resistance and how researchers are pursuing new lines of attack to keep pace with these highly adaptive organisms. Computer imaging and electron microscopy help illustrate how Legionella bacteria adapt to harsh...
17) COPD
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Learn what you can do to help prevent lung infections, what to do if you suspect infection, and how healthy lifestyle choices can help to protect you against illness.
18) Pneumonia
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Understand that when you get home from the hospital there are still steps you will need to take to help you recover from your pneumonia, regain lung function, and help prevent another infection.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Surgeon Gabriel Weston continues to unlock the secrets of the human body through some of the most extraordinary cases in medicine. In this episode, Weston uncovers the cases of an engineer who fixed his own heart, a toddler whose bones were repaired before he was even born, and a girl whose immune system attacked her own brain. We meet a man who can taste words and find out how his condition is helping develop new ways to enable blind people to navigate...
20) Q&A
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Goldstein, Dr. Walker, and Dr. Hall discuss common vision issues among preemies and how those issues can be avoided and possibly treated.
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