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Methods of Drug Administration
When a patient must be administered a drug in a medical setting, how does this occur? Well there are lots of ways. Pills or tablets can be ingested orally. There are topical creams, tubes, injections, and more. How does each one work,...
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Introduction to the History of Drugs
A drug is a substance that, when introduced to the body, produces some non-nutritional physiological effect. This includes medicinal drugs as well as recreational drugs, and they take many forms. Focusing predominately on medicinal...
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Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases: Understanding the Types and Impacts
This video is a lecture presentation on communicable and non-communicable diseases. The presenter defines what a disease is and explains the difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases. The video also discusses the...
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Understanding Communicable Diseases: Transmission, Symptoms, and Prevention
In this video, the speaker discusses communicable diseases. The video provides examples of various communicable diseases caused by different types of pathogens, such as measles caused by a virus, salmonella caused by bacteria, and...
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Various types diseases
It describes communicable and non-communicable; acute and chronic; congenital and acquired; and endemic, epidemic and pandemic diseases.
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Viruses and Viroids
This nugget describes the characteristic features of viruses, viroids and prions. It explains the contributions of different scientist and also provides examples of various types of viruses.
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Understanding Lifestyle and Non-Communicable Disease.
This video discusses the difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases, and the various risk factors that contribute to non-communicable diseases. It also explores the different effects of lifestyle factors on the...
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Categorizing Drugs Classes, Names, and Schedules
How do we categorize drugs? How do we name them? This is quite a bit trickier than one might think, because there are different ways we might want to categorize them, each of which has its own application. Any drug also has multiple...
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Introduction to Pharmacology
What are drugs? What do they do? How do they do what they do? These questions are part of the field of pharmacology, and over this series we will learn all about a wide variety of different drugs that have clinical use. This will require...
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Introduction to the Microbial World
It's time to learn about microorganisms! These are all the tiny little critters in the water, and the air, and in the ground, and inside you. We didn't even know they were there until a few hundred years ago, but once we started to learn...
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Pharmacodynamics Mechanisms of Drug Action
Now that we know how drugs move through the body to reach their target, what happens once they get there? By what mechanisms can drugs interact with target proteins to elicit a particular cellular response, and by extension a...
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Epidemiology - the backbone of public health
Epidemiology underpins everything we do in public health and global health. Epidemiology is more than just research methods and qualitative and quantitative study design. It's about understanding the distribution of states of health and...
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Biotechnology: Genetic Modification, Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond
In this biology playlist, we've learned so much about DNA and living organisms! Well, so has mankind over the past century, and oh, what we have done with this knowledge! It's pretty incredible when you stop and think about it. Let's go...
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Routes of Viral Transmission
Now we know a bit more about how viruses interact with cells, whether those are bacterial cells, or animal cells, such as ours. But how do they gain access to our cells in the first place? How do viruses get inside the human body? Let's...
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Antibiotic Resistance
You probably have heard of ‘antibiotic resistance’ before, but most people don’t realise that it’s actually the bacteria that become resistant to the antibiotics, not humans or animals. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that are used to...
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Pharmaceutical Drugs: Inhibitors and the Nature of Disease
We live in a time where there is much skepticism towards modern medicine. This stems purely from ignorance, however, and there are those who capitalize on this to sell an unbelievable array of alternative medicines that, almost without...
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Introduction to Immunology
As we know from our understanding of microbiology, pathogens are everywhere. So why don't we get sick all the time? And what are allergies, why do some people have them and others don't? And what are vaccines, how do those work? All of...
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The war on disease
Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's -- why do some diseases still plague us? And can we cure them?
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Discovery and Development of Drugs
What is a drug? You can pause the video here and have a think, see if you know the names of any drugs. A drug is a substance that when released into the body will cause an effect. Drugs may be recreational, where people choose to take...
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Legionnaires’ Disease Legionella pneumophila
One day in 1976, there was a terrible outbreak of an unknown disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. What was the pathogen responsible for this so-called Legionnaires' disease? Let's find out!
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Typhoid Fever Salmonella typhi
Typhoid fever can be a very serious illness, and we may have already heard of it because of Typhoid Mary, a famous carrier in the beginning of the 20th century. Let's go in for a closer look!
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Rickettsia rickettsii
In 1896, a mysterious disease spread through the Snake River Valley of Idaho. Some people called it a spotted fever, and hundreds got sick. As it turns out, this was all the doing of some bacteria, Rickettsia ricketssii. Let's get a...
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Chickenpox and Shingles (Varicella-Zoster Virus)
Lots of kids get the chickenpox. I know I did! I was about four years old. It was awful. But now we can learn all kinds of things about the virus called Varicella-Zoster virus, which causes chickenpox and shingles. What is its structure...
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Staphylococcus aureus is the bacteria responsible for what we commonly refer to as a staph infection. They are extremely common, but they are also developing antibiotic resistance at an alarming rate. Let's take a look at these now.