Curated Video
How to Read and Interpret Blood Pressure
This video provides a clear and concise explanation of blood pressure as one of the vital signs that determine the body's overall health. It explains the concept of systolic and diastolic pressure, the measurement process, and the normal...
HealthSketch
What is Asthma?
A simple animated video about the common breathing condition Asthma: its symptoms and triggers, how it is diagnosed and treated, and how it can be managed. This video will be helpful to students of all ages, health professionals,...
Curated Video
Understanding Allergies: Causes and Reactions
Understand what allergies are and their causes such as foods, latex, pollen, and genetic factors. Learn why early detection are so important to allergy management and how antihistamines and adrenaline may be used in severe cases.
JJ Medicine
Vitamin D Deficiency Signs & Symptoms (ex. Fatigue), Diagnosis, Treatment
Vitamin D Deficiency (Part 2) | Hyperparathyroidism, Clinical Features (ex. Osteoporosis), Diagnosis, Treatment This is part 2 in a series on Vitamin D deficiency. In this lesson, we continue with our discussion on Vitamin D deficiency,...
HealthSketch
What is Osteoarthritis? (HealthSketch)
A simple explainer video about the common joint condition, osteoarthritis. We explain how it occurs, who is at risk, the main symptoms, and how it can be managed.We hope this video will be helpful to you and those you care about.
HealthSketch
What is Dementia? (HealthSketch)
A simple explainer video about dementia, one of the most common medical conditions in older people, related to decline in brain function. We explain what it is, the common symptoms, how it is diagnosed, the different types and causes,...
Wonderscape
Start Smart: The Dangers of Smoking and Vaping
This video highlights the dangers of smoking for young people, emphasizing the risks of addiction and the long-term health consequences. It also discusses other forms of tobacco, such as hookahs and e-cigarettes, and their potential...
FuseSchool
Protein in the diet
What we put in to our bodies is important to keep it working! We need to eat a balanced diet, to make sure our body gets everything it needs to carry out its activities. Our diet should include; fatty acids or lipids, carbohydrates,...
Curated Video
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...
Barcroft Media
The Service Dogs Helping Veterans With PTSD
A CHARITY is giving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sufferers a new lease of life by pairing them up with service dogs. 1Pet1Vet, based in Kankakee, Illinois is a non-profit organization that specialises in pairing and training companion...
msvgo
Various types diseases
It describes communicable and non-communicable; acute and chronic; congenital and acquired; and endemic, epidemic and pandemic diseases.
msvgo
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.
JJ Medicine
Kidney Stones (Nephrolithiasis) Signs & Symptoms | & Why They Occur
Kidney Stones (Nephrolithiasis) Signs & Symptoms | & Why They Occur Kidney stones (causing kidney stone disease, or nephrolithiasis) is a condition involving formation of stones (renal calculi) within the kidneys. These stones can cause...
msvgo
Disorders of the Digestive System
It describes common disorders such as jaundice, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation and indigestion in the digestive system.
Professor Dave Explains
Poliomyelitis (Poliovirus)
Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...
FuseSchool
Dementia & Alzheimer's disease
In this video you'll learn about dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Professor Dave Explains
Zika Virus (Genus Flavivirus)
Zika is a virus that has been making the news lately, particularly due to its capacity for in utero transmission in pregnant women which has the potential to cause a birth defect called microcephaly. What is this virus? Where did it come...
Barcroft Media
The 18-Year-Old Gamer Who Looks Like A Child
AN 18-YEAR-OLD has a rare condition which makes him look and act like a child. Christopher Rea, from Newark, Delaware, suffers from an extremely rare form of dwarfism called Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 4, otherwise known as Morquio, which...
Curated Video
Water Balance in the Body
In this video we will discuss what happens if you don't have enough water in your body, and also what happens if you drink too much. This is called the water balance.
Neuro Transmissions
Psychology of Depression
Without question, you or someone you know has experienced depression. Perhaps you found this video because you are looking for help in overcoming depression. Help comes in many forms and here we explore popular forms of therapy that are...
Professor Dave Explains
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...
Neuro Transmissions
Neuroscience of ADHD
ADHD might seem like a convenient excuse to be able to medicate your overactive child. But it turns out that ADHD is a real diagnosis with a different combination of symptoms for each person. There are still a lot of questions...
60 Second Histories
Galen and the Four Humors
Galen explains what the four humours are and how they could be balanced to make people better.
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: I Have An Eating Disorder. Now What?
This program asks and helps to answer several questions: Do you or your friend have an eating disorder? Who can develop an eating disorder? By viewing this program, students will learn what they can do to help someone with an eating...