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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...
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[2017]
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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...
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[2018]
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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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[2017]
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Spectral Band Replication (SBR) is a novel method for compressing digital audio files making it possible for millions of people around the world to enjoy either higher quality sound or higher compression easily and affordably. SBR was conceived by the Swedish inventor Lars Liljeryd and turned into a real-world application by a team of engineers that included Kristofer Kjörling, Per Ekstrand and Fredrik Henn. Liljeryd’s ideas revolutionized an entire...
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[2018]
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Robotic surgery is transforming modern medicine. Large movements of the surgeons hands in the operating theater translate into very small movements of the robotic instruments. It is less tiring for the surgeons and for the patient, it means less scarring, a quicker recovery, and reduced risk of infection. It is cutting edge medicine. Robotic arms – including a powerful camera – are slid into the patient through small incisions. At the end of the...
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[2008]
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The major challenge facing the modern world of vaccines is to get them to people right at the end of the line: those people who still don’t have access to effective treatment. It’s not always remote villages way out in the country; it can also be communities in some of the world’s massive slums. The problem is vaccines tend to be complex and sophisticated medicines. Many involve skilled disease diagnoses, difficult delivery systems like cold...
8) Survival
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[2018]
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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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[2016]
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The invention pioneered by Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins and their team at New University of Lisbon, consists of transistors crafted from cellulose fiber – in other words paper exploited for electronics purposes. The paper-based transistors open new applications for low cost and disposable electronics, require much less energy to manufacture, are made from readily available materials, and can be recycled safely as opposed to the standard silicon...
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[2011]
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Technology in sport has come along a long way, from the simplest timing devices such as stopwatches, to advances in fabric, and nutritional information, allowing athletes to compete and train in comfort, as well as to their optimum level of fitness. This video examines developments in swimsuit technology that have meant that Olympic swimmers get the benefit of slimmer, more hydrodynamic suits. It considers how soccer has evolved over the years as...
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[2022]
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This program is composed of two segments. In Augmented, we learn about an ingenious new technology that allows prosthetic legs to move and feel like the real thing. A filmmaker with a rare type of multiple sclerosis explores the mysterious causes ofthe diseasein Predicting My MS.
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[2017]
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A medical discovery offers an alternative treatment to inflammatory-related diseases. Bobbili, India, is where the work of Dr. Apparao Peddapalli has reaped incredible medical results despite business-related conspiratorial challenges—specifically the systematic discounting of his proven results by government and global pharmaceutical companies. It's a pay-to-play medical conspiracy.
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[2016]
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Sight is arguably our most important sense. It translates light using photons into electrical pulses and travels into the visual cortex of our brains. This one-hour documentary looks at the science, medicine and technology of vision and the individuals who are battling blindness disorders.
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