Germ Warfare: It's One Small Boat: Tactics Required to Combat Disease
When it comes to health, the world community lives in "one small boat." International awareness and cooperation even extends to our food supply. Changes in how food is grown and handled, increased international travel, people crammed together in uns...
Subject: Disease Control and Prevention
Transcript: health and deal With their health problems, Especially the infectious disease problems. [narrator:] the importance of international awareness and
Living with Cancer: Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, The
The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, the first of its kind in the United States, was designed to see whether the drug tamoxifen prevents breast cancer
Subject: Breast Cancer Prevention Trial
Transcript: prevents breast cancer in women who are at high risk of developing the disease. the 13,000 women who participated Min the study were randomly assigned to
Life After Heart Attack
Each year, more than one million men and women suffer a heart attack. This event suddenly and dramatically alters a person’s life forever, but studies show that if sufferers can get to a hospital quickly, more than 90 percent will survive. This pr...
Subject: Heart -- Diseases -- Popular works
Transcript: to cure diseases, ease suffering, and enhance the quality of life, and by Genentech, a biotechnology company that uses human genetic information to
The Need for Chronic Disease Management
expensive hospital procedures,there is nor money for preventative care.
Diagnosis and Symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Symptoms include dementia and coordination dysfunction. The main means of controlling CJD is to prevent infection in the first place. The disease can
Creating health: osteoporosis
Provides an overview of osteoporosis and explores profiles of three people with the disease. The program offers practical information about nutrition
Subject: Osteoporosis--Prevention
Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Risk
, and cardiovascular disease through case studies involving four middle-aged patients—three male and one female. In addition, they discuss the importance
Subject: Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Prevention
Transcript: DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, THERE ARE NEARLY 24 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT HAVE DIABETES AND CLOSE TO 2 MILLION NEW CASES DIAGNOSED
What You Don't Know...: Water-related Diseases
campaign to eradicate two water-related diseases: river blindness and guinea worm diseases. Dr. Donald Hopkins reviews the prevention strategies they are
Subject: guinea worm disease
Transcript: :] the diarrheal diseases are usually transmitted Through contaminated food and water. So with poor sanitation systems in the communities, poor hygiene In
Rotavirus
than in a wealthy part of the world. Interviews with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Mexican Ministry of Health, and
Series: Unseen Enemies: A Close-up Look At The World's Deadliest Diseases
Subject: Virus diseases
Transcript: WHICH, FOR DECADES, HAS KEPT WESTERN SHAREHOLDERS HAPPY... AND HAS LEFTCHILDREN OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEFENSELESS AGAINST DISEASE. GLAXO HAS DEVELOPED
AIDS: A Global Crisis
This program offers an excellent worldview of AIDS, providing background on the disease’s history, its transmission and symptoms, innovative
Subject: AIDS (Disease)
Transcript: transmitted disease. But this simple fact is not always getting through. You have to sell prevention like you were selling Coca Cola. You can't just inform