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How COVID-19 Affects The Brain
A lot of the information we hear about COVID-19 surrounds how the virus impacts your lungs or how the pandemic has ravaged society due to quarantine. But what about your brain? Might coronavirus have an effect there, too? Come along with...
Institute of Human Anatomy
What Caffeine Does to the Body
What Caffeine Does to the Body In this video, Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses how caffeine interacts with the various tissues throughout the human body and produces it's various effects, including potential side...
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USA: STANLEY B. PRUSINER WINS NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE
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An American who discovered a new class of germ that causes mad cow disease and other lethal brain-wasting conditions won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.
The findings by Doctor Stanley B. Prusiner may eventually shed light on...
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SYND 02 08 74 MENINGITIS SCARE IN SAO PAOLO
Scenes in Sao Paolo as hospitals try to cope with the Meningitis epidemic
1. ws Sao paulo street scene
2. ws pan up Amilio Ribas hospital
3. ms ambulance
4. ms hospital sign
5. ms queues at hospital
6. vs ambulance arrives at...
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CUBA: HAVANA: MENINGITIS VACCINE TESTS
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The Clinton administration has decided to let a drug company with U-S offices work with Cuban researchers on tests of a meningitis vaccine for possible future use in the United States.
SmithKline Beecham has obtained...
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Singer Steve Lawrence says he has Alzheimer's disease
SINGER STEVE LAWRENCE HAS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
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Parkinson's disease - a journey through a brain
UK PARKINSON'S BRAINSOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESSRESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 6.12SHOTLIST:Associated Press London, UK - 6 March 20171. Close of complete brain of former Parkinson's patient 2. Various of pathologist Professor Steve...
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An 85-year-old woman with dementia had a male stripper straddle her against her will at her Long Island nursing home, according to a lawsuit filed by her family but the facility's lawyer says the performance had been requested by residents. (April 8)
SOUNDBITE (English) Franklin Youngblood, son:
"None of y'all would want this done to your parents. She doesn't deserve this, it's wrong and I don't care what anybody say, it's wrong and it shouldn't be done."
THE PICTURE APPEARS TO SHOW...
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Science Says: How repeated head blows affect the brain ++Animation with soundbites++
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The largest study of donated brains of former American footballers shows players who have long careers are more likely to suffer brain damage
The research into Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE...
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Science Says: How repeated head blows affect the brain ++Animation with soundbites++
LEADIN:
The largest study of donated brains of former American footballers shows players who have long careers are more likely to suffer brain damage
The research into Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE...
Curated Video
The common bacteria which is killing babies
LEADIN:
There are calls for the development of a vaccine to help prevent the death of thousands of newborn babies.
Millions of women unknowingly carry a bacteria which can be passed on in pregnancy and later...
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Giant African land snails invade Florida
1. Close-up of giant African land snail on side of tank
2. Various of snails in tank
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Fagan, Spokesman, Florida Department of Agriculture:
"There is a rare form of meningitis that can be picked up by handling...
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USA: MICHAEL J FOX SPEAKS ABOUT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Washington DC, 28 September 1999 XFA
1. Fox walking in with senators
2. Cutaway photographers
3. Fox walking to table
4. Hearing
5. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and actor Michael J. Fox
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael J....
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The common bacteria which is killing babies
LEADIN:
There are calls for the development of a vaccine to help prevent the death of thousands of newborn babies.
Millions of women unknowingly carry a bacteria which can be passed on in pregnancy and later...
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Mosquito borne disease kills 140 in Southern India
1. Team of doctors going into children's ward in hospital, pan to child suffering from viral encephalitis
2. Various of comatose child, critically ill with encephalitis, mother wiping her face
3. Relative holding encephalitis patient...
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"Super agers" with the brains of 50 year olds might hold key to dementia
Edith Stern is a 92-year-old retiree who may hold the key to aging well.
She's a sprightly leader in her Chicago retirement home, playing mother hen to many of the residents and keeping an eye on the communal snack drawer.
Her...
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ROVING REPORT: RR9950/B UK/USA: ATTENTION DEFICIT
A disease called Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is believed to afflict about 15% of the world's school age population, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Its symptoms include an inability to concentrate and...
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Cuba - Health Tourism
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secs)
Increasing numbers of foreigners travel to Cuba as "health
tourists" in order to receive medical treatment, either because
it's cheaper there or because it's not available...
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GAZA STRIP: 350 CASES OF MENINGITIS REGISTERED IN LAST 10 DAYS
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The Palestinian Authority has declared a state of medical emergency in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after officials registered 350 cases of meningitis in the last 10 days.
Most of those suffering from the potentially deadly...
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Bacterial meningitis is suspected in the death of a Kenosha, Wisconsin high school student over the weekend.
HEADLINE: Student fears grow after suspected meningitis death
CAPTION: Students at a high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin say they are nervous after one of their classmates died, possibly from bacterial meningitis. (Feb....
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UK: TEENAGER WHO DIED FROM HUMAN EQUIVALENT OF MAD COW DISEASE
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The parents of a teenager who died from the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease hit out Thursday at the British government's handling of the issue.
Stephen Churchill was 19 when he died last year from Disease.
The...
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UK: POSSIBLE LINK FOUND BETWEEN OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS AND MENINGITIS
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As leading medical experts from more than 60 countries meet in South Africa for the World Medical Association General Assembly Tuesday, a group of doctors in Gloucestershire in England will be closely watching...