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    How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?

    How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?

    How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan explains how rapid cell division is cancer's "strength" -- and also its weakness.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Cancer cells
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    What If Our Health Care System Kept Us Healthy?

    What If Our Health Care System Kept Us Healthy?

    Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Social medicine Poor -- Medical care
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Mental Health for All by Involving All

    Mental Health for All by Involving All

    Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach -- training members of communities to give mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people to care for others.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental health service Mental health personnel -- Training of
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    The Endocrine System

    The Endocrine System

    The video explains the major elements in the endocrine system and describes the hormones and actions of 10 glands: pineal, anterior pituitary, posterior pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla, testes and ovaries.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Endocrine gls
    Resource Type:
    Video