Healthcare Triage
More People Should Get the HPV Vaccine
The CDC recommendations for the HPV vaccine have just changed. If you’re 45 years of age or younger, then you might want to talk to your doctor about getting vaccinated yourself.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Vaccines - This Week in Global Health
This episode 2 focuses on vaccines and immunisation.
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - The Battle for a Vaccine
We investigate why pneumococcal disease is a major global health problem, killing more than 800,000 children every year. In industrialised nations a vaccine has dramatically reduced child deaths caused by the disease. Now scientists have...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - Saving Lives
The developing world is soon set to get affordable vaccines. A new international agreement is planning to fix the price of a drug or vaccine to make them affordable for some of the world’s poorest people. The agreement is between donors,...
Curated Video
IELTS Energy 1011: Inundate your IELTS Exam with this Pandemic Vocabulary
Today we have a success story from a 3 Keys IELTS student. Learn how and when to ask for a remark for your IELTS Writing score.
The Wall Street Journal
Navigating the Pandemic
The CEO of the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest producer of vaccines, talks to the Wall Street Journal about navigating the challenges posed by the pandemic and what lies ahead in the fight against Covid-19.
Healthcare Triage
Measles Is Beatable. Please Vaccinate Your Children.
There's another measles outbreak in the US, this time in Washington state. This is a beatable disease. We’d come so close to eradicating it. Please, vaccinate your children.
Healthcare Triage
Get Your Flu Shot! It's Not About You, OK?
It's not too late to get a flu shot! You may have heard that the flu shot this year is "less effective" than in earlier years. That may not mean what you think it means. Less effective is a relative relationship, and in absolute terms,...
The Wall Street Journal
UPS and UnitedHealthcare CIOs on Planning for a Post-Covid World
Juan Perez and Carissa Rollins discuss how lessons learned during the pandemic will shape how CIOs manage in the future.
The Wall Street Journal
Moderna CEO on Covid-19 Boosters, Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Stéphane Bancel discusses the company’s new Covid-19 boosters, its approach to developing vaccines for emerging variants alongside seasonal flu shots, and the use of mRNA technology to treat cancer.
Visual Learning Systems
Traits and Heredity: Genetic Engineering
Upon viewing the Traits and Heredity video series, students will be able to do the following:
Define traits as the distinguishing characteristics of an organism.
Describe heredity as the process of passing on traits from parents to...
Healthcare Triage
Another Year, Another Flu Shot
The flu vaccine is tailored from year to year to match the current/expected strains. That means it’s sometimes a home run, and sometimes less of one. You, and your kids, should still get one every year.
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - The Malaria Vaccine
"Kill or Cure?" goes in search of the very latest ways to fight the disease. Malaria is still the most deadly disease in the world. - it kills a child every thirty seconds. As yet no vaccine exists. But the race is on to find one and...
The Wall Street Journal
The Cost of the Cure
At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Amy P. Abernethy spoke with Reporter Peter Loftus about how regulators and companies can make the drug development process more efficient without compromising safety.
Next Animation Studio
Powerful new COVID vaccine undergoing final trials
Novavax used a different approach to create a vaccine that works well in more than 90 percent of tested individuals.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Measles
This episode is in response to the measles controversy, we discuss and highlight the re-emergence of Measles, as well as learning more about the history and implications of the illness
TLDR News
COVID: What Happens If We Never Discover a Vaccine? - TLDR News.
We're all locked inside at the moment because we're concerned about the spread of the Coronavirus, and it looks like we're going to have to stay where we are until the situation changes. One way this could happen is through the...
Next Animation Studio
Microneedle patch a painless way to deliver vaccines
Researchers at MIT are developing a method of delivering vaccines with patches of tiny needles that would embed a substance containing the vaccine onto the skin, much like a tattoo. The technique would eliminate the need of a syringe.
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - The Real Lady Killer
In the developing world it’s the leading cause of female cancer deaths: it’s cervical cancer and it kills more than half a million women every year, most in poor countries. New low-tech screening programmes have begun to reduce cancer...
Next Animation Studio
How Astrazeneca Causes Blood Clots: ‘Trigger’ Found
The trigger for rare blood clots occurring in patients who receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may be a type of protein in the blood that is attracted to one element of the vaccine.
Healthcare Triage
Samoa's Devastating Measles Outbreak: An Antivax Story
Measles is one of the world’s most contagious diseases but is preventable with high vaccination rates. Unfortunately, this isn't happening everywhere, including in Samoa.
The Wall Street Journal
Cedric Richmond on the Next Four Years
Cedric Richmond, adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, on what the next four years will look like for business.
Curated Video
Vaccines: How They Work and Protect Us
Vaccines contain weakened or inactive copies of diseases. When injected, they stimulate the immune system to develop immunity against those diseases, protecting individuals from future infections. Vaccines have greatly reduced the...
Rachel's English
Learn English With News: Advanced Vocabulary & Phrases | Rachel's English
In today's lesson, we're learning conversational English phrases with the News! We'll be reviewing CNBC's latest story about what went wrong with the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Join me, as I teach you English vocabulary and phrases,...