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Series
Publisher
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Infectious diseases are a serious threat to world health. They are particularly devastating in tropical countries where infectious agents thrive and where healthcare resources are stretched thin. The warming trend in the global climate, coupled with increased international travel, has resulted in infectious outbreaks that spread more rapidly and that now affect regions with more temperate climates, including the United States. Many diseases that had...
Author
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The body is a fortress under constant assault. It faces threats from infectious diseases, parasites, allergens, environmental toxins, physical trauma, and natural disasters from without, to overzealous allergic, immune, and inflammatory responses, and cellular mutations from within. This course is an introduction to the field of pathophysiology--the study of the disruptions in a normal body's functions caused by disease or injury. Beginning with an...
4) Body story
Publisher
Discovery Channel Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Follows different groups of people to reveal what goes on inside their bodies as they react to events such as puberty, an automobile crash, anaphylaxis, food poisoning etc.
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Muscles: National Geographic investigates the science of muscle by taking a journey inside the bodies of two remarkable humans with startling muscular disorders. 31-year old Jason Dunn lives with Dystonia, a rare disease that causes his brain to send faulty messages to his muscular system. Every waking moment his muscles flex out of his control, twisting his body into unusual positions. Ami Ankileweitz has Spinal Muscle Atrophy, a genetic disorder...
7) Outbreak
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The vivid, inside story of how the Ebola outbreak began and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping accounts of victims from the slums of Monrovia to the jungles of Guinea, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
What if pesticides, perfumes and even cell phones made a person sick? For many suffering from environmental illnesses, modern life has become toxic. The documentary captures the upheaval and hope of families seized by a mysterious illness.
11) Perfect sense
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Susan is a scientist whose research has caused her to neglect virtually everything else in her life, including love. That is until she meets Michael, a talented chef, and suddenly everything starts to change, not just in Susan's life, but in the entire world. While Susan and Michael are experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling, all around the globe a new epidemic is causing people to lose their sensory perceptions.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infesting himself with them. He travels to Kenya to give himself tapeworm - a parasite that can grow to many metres inside the human gut. He also encounters lice, leeches and the deadly malaria parasite, before swallowing a pill-camera to reveal what's growing within him. By the end of his infestation Michael learns...
13) Songbird
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Immune to the COVID-23 virus, a courier races against time to save the woman he loves from a quarantine camp.
Publisher
Digiview Prodcutions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a boy born without natural immunities, forced to grow up a prisoner in the physical and emotional confines of a germ free plastic room. A special astronaut's suit gives the boy freedom to move around. He eventually falls in love with the girl next door. He must then choose between confinement and life, or the freedom to love at the risk of fatal infection.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Each of the three programs that make up "The mysterious human heart focuses on a different aspect of what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we're on the verge of learning about the heart. This material is presented through the real-life dramas of people who suddenly learn that a normal, functioning heart is not something that can be taken for granted. In Episode 1. we examine the heart as a muscle - pumping more than 100,000 times a day,...
17) The survivalist
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a viral pandemic decimates the world, a survivalist is forced to take on a group of heavily armed religious fanatics who believe that he is harboring a woman who could be the key to ending the virus and repopulating the world.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of undead, and Alice and her comrades are...