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In this screencast, students read about the stages of microbial dental plaque formation and the time it takes for each stage to occur.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Teeth -- Diseases
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- Video
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In this animated object, the learner examines 17 types of joint movement.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabilitation Sciences, and Human biology
- Keywords:
- Joints -- Motions Range of
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners identify a variety of prevention activities as primary, secondary, or tertiary.
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- Health Sciences and Public Health
- Keywords:
- Preventive health services
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- Others
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Learners examine the function and wiring of the sympathetic nervous system.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Sympathetic nervous system
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Learners examine the location, structure, and function of the unipolar and multipolar neurons.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Neuroanatomy Neurons
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- Others
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This animated object illustrates the events leading to the migration of phagocytes into areas of tissue damage and/or bacterial presence. Learners view bacterial cell phagocytosis, its subsequent enzymatic digestion, and exocytosis.
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- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Phagocytes Chemotaxis
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- Others
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Students identify the various regions of the human body through drag-and-drop exercises.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Human body Human anatomy
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- Others
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In this interactive learning object, learners study the parts of the brain and then test their knowledge in a drag-and-drop exercise.
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- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Brain -- Anatomy
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- Video
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Students read an explanation of the values used for arterial blood gas analysis.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Human Biology, and Medical Laboratory Science
- Keywords:
- Blood gases -- Measurement
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- Video
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In this screencast, learners identify the parts of the cardiovascular system and examine blood flow.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Heart Cardiovascular system
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- Video
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In this animated object, learners examine how psychotropic medications act on neurotransmitter systems to achieve their desired effect.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Psychotropic drugs -- Physiological effect
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- Others
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In this animated object, learners view the "T" and "P" waves and the "QRS complex." A brief quiz completes the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Electrocardiography
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- Video
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In this interactive object, learners examine the neuron pathway into and out of the spinal cord. They complete the activity by testing their knowledge of vocabulary and the location of spinal cord structures.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Knee jerk
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- Others
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In this animated object, learners read a brief description of the roles of the hypothalamus, emotions, and adrenal secretions during the stress response.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biochemistry
- Keywords:
- Stress (Physiology) Stress (Psychology)
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- Others
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Students identify the various regions of the human body through video.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabilitation Sciences, and Human biology
- Keywords:
- Human body Human anatomy
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- Others
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Learners read an introduction to arterial blood gasses and then identify uncompensated ABGs.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Human Biology, and Medical Laboratory Science
- Keywords:
- Blood gases
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- Others
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In this screencast, learners read about the parts of the eye.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Optometry
- Keywords:
- Eye -- Physiology
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners examine the locations of major body cavities and their protective membranes. A drag-and-drop exercise completes the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Human body Body cavities
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- Others
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Learners play a vascular system "game" to identify the arteries, capillaries, and veins that make up the renal blood supply pathway. A score is given at the end of the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Kidneys -- Physiology Kidneys -- Blood vessels
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- Others
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In this animated and interactive object, learners identify musculoskeletal fractures.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Keywords:
- Fractures Bones -- Wounds injuries
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- Others
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In this animated object, learners examine the mechanisms for gas exchange among the lungs, blood, and tissues.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Pulmonary gas exchange Respiratory organs
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- Others
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Learners examine the structure and function of skin including the production of melanin.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Skin -- Physiology
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In this animated object, learners trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
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- Smell -- Physiological aspects
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners identify nursing actions that help to prevent the spread of infection.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Nursing
- Keywords:
- Infection Communicable diseases -- Prevention
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- Others
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In this animated object, learners examine the different types of joints and their movements.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabilitation Sciences, and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Joints
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- Others
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In this screencast, learners read about the seven hormones that help regulate blood glucose.
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- Health Sciences and Biochemistry
- Keywords:
- Glucose -- Metabolism Endocrinology
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- Others
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In this animated and interactive object, learners examine the structure and functions of granulocytes and agranulocytes. Two exercises complete the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Leucocytes Granulocytes
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- Others
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In this animated activity, learners examine how organs are visualized in three dimensions. The terms “longitudinal,” “cross,” “transverse,” “horizontal,” and “sagittal” are defined. Students test their knowledge of the location of abdominal pelvic cavity organs in two drag-and-drop exercises.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Human body Pelvis Human physiology Human anatomy
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- Others
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In this animated object, learners examine how the sensory, motor, mixed, and reflex nerves work in the human body.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Neuroanatomy Perceptual-motor processes Reflexes
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- Video
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In this animated object, learners examine the eight cranial bones, the fourteen facial bones, and the ribs.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Facial bones Ribs Skull -- Anatomy
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- Others
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In this screencast, students identify various muscles of the face and scalp and see them in action.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Head -- Muscles Face -- Muscles
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners identify a person's regional body parts.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Body Human Human anatomy
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- Others
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In this learning activity you'll review the structure and function of the different tissues of the human body.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Human anatomy Human physiology
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- Others
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In this interactive and animated object, learners classify a number of diagnoses by shooting a soccer ball into goals marked "Medical" and "Nursing."
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- Health Sciences and Nursing
- Keywords:
- Diagnosis Nursing diagnosis
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- Others
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In this animated object, learners examine the major events that occur at the neuromuscular junction.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Myoneural junction Neuromuscular transmission
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- Others
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In this animated and interactive object, learners examine how blood flows through the heart and lungs. A brief quiz completes the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Lungs -- Blood vessels
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- Others
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In this learning activity you'll review how every protein molecule of an organism is synthesized by that organism in a prescribed process. This activity helps students understand the fundamental life process of making protein.
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- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Protein -- Synthesis
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- Others
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In this interactive and animated object, learners read a description of the number, name, and function of the cranial nerves. A matching quiz completes the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Nerves Cranial
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- Others
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In this screencast, learners examine hearing and balance. Detailed drawings of the outer, middle, and inner ear structures are included.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Hearing Ear -- Anatomy
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners review the major parts of the skeletal system by clicking on the correct term as each bone or joint is highlighted on a skeleton.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabiliation Science, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Bones Joints
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- Others
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In this animated activity, learners examine muscle cell contraction and relaxation and consider the role of calcium ions.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabilitation Science, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Muscle cells Muscle contraction
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- Others
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In this animated and interactive object, learners examine ventilation, external and internal respiration, and gas transport.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human biology
- Keywords:
- Pulmonary gas exchange Respiratory organs
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- Others
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Learners will examine how cardiac markers are used in the diagnosis of cardiac disease.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Heart -- Diseases -- Diagnosis
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- Others
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In this activity, you will learn various behaviors that do or do not relate to professional behaviors in the health care setting.
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- Health Sciences and Medical and Professional Ethics
- Keywords:
- Medical personnel -- Professional ethics
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners select the correct description of a child in the five stages of development in the following categories: pattern of growth, vital signs, organ development, vision and hearing, and developmental stage.
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- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Child development
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- Others
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In this interactive object, learners examine the structure and function of the sense of taste.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Taste
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- Others
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In this animated and interactive object, learners examine ABO blood antigens and Rh antigens and their compatibility.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Human Biology, and Medical Laboratory Science
- Keywords:
- Bood groups
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- Others
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For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shot glass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising things he learned.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Health behavior Noise pollution Joy
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- Video
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You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Health Technology and Informatics
- Keywords:
- Medical care Medical technology
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- Video
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Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by having men grow out their moustaches every November -- began as a dare in a bar in 2003. Now, it's a worldwide movement that raised $126 million for prostate cancer research last year.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Health promotion Fund raising Prostate -- Cancer
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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.
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- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Cancer cells
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- Video
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The things we eat and drink on a daily basis can impact our health in big ways. Too many carbohydrates, for instance, can lead to insulin resistance, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes. But what are carbs, exactly? And what do they do to our bodies? Richard J. Wood explains.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Food Science
- Keywords:
- Carbohydrates Nutrition
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- Video
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Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. "We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health," Sigman says, "based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say."
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Mental health Mental illness
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- Video
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Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time.
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- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Medicial informatics Big data Public health
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- Video
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Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation and even save us money.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Recycling (Waste etc.) Excretion
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- Video
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When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that's uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: "Being honest about how we feel doesn't make us weak -- it makes us human."
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Mental health
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- Video
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Stephen Trzeciak was at the top of his game as a research scientist until an unexpected question from his 12-year-old son transformed his life's work. "What is the most pressing problem of our time? Do we really know? And what would happen if we actually did?" In this talk, Trzeciak discusses the erosion of compassion in healthcare, and proposes a new methodology: "compassionomics."
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Nursing
- Keywords:
- Medical care Patient medical personnel Compassion
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- Video
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A thoughtful ode to health care, composed by Tilo Alpermann and performed on the TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany stage by Lars Jönnson.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Piano music
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- Video
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There's no better way to stop a disease than to catch and treat it early, before symptoms occur. That's the whole point of medical screening techniques like radiography, MRIs and blood tests. But there's one medium with overlooked potential for medical analysis: your breath. Technologist Julian Burschka shares the latest in the science of breath analysis -- the screening of the volatile organic compounds in your exhaled breath -- and how it could be used as a powerful tool to detect, predict and ultimately prevent disease.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medicine Preventive Respiration
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- Video
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In the last century, our sleep patterns have been heavily influenced by artificial light sources. (Think about your smartphone.) In this instructive talk, sleep researcher Dragana Rogulja outlines the damage this does to our health and suggests some ways to combat the problem.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Psychology
- Keywords:
- Sleep -- Physiological aspects Light pollution Electric lighting -- Health aspects
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- Video
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Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal mortality and shares ways for hospitals and doctors to make pregnancy safer for women before, during and after childbirth.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Management of Health Care Services
- Keywords:
- Maternal health services
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- Video
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"For all that's ever been said about climate change, we haven't heard nearly enough about the psychological impacts of living in a warming world," says science writer Britt Wray. In this quick talk, she explores how climate change is threatening our well-being -- mental, social and spiritual -- and offers a starting point for what we can do about it.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects Mental health
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- Video
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Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk, behavioral economist and health policy expert David Asch explains why our behavior is often irrational -- in highly predictable ways -- and shows how we can harness this irrationality to make better decisions and improve our health care system overall.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Health behavior Decision (Psychology)
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- Video
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Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood -- and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Microorganisms Medical genetics
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- Video
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Neuroscientist Kay M. Tye investigates how your brain gives rise to complex emotional states like depression, anxiety or loneliness. From the cutting edge of science, she shares her latest findings -- including the development of a tool that uses light to activate specific neurons and create dramatic behavioral changes in mice. Learn how these discoveries could change the way you think about your mind -- and possibly uncover effective treatments for mental disorders.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Mental illness -- Physiological aspects
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- Video
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Drinking calcium-rich milk strengthens your bones -- but it's not the only thing you can do for a strong and healthy skeleton. Dr. Jen Gunter digs deep into the three layers of bone to explain why they weaken as we age and shares what you can do to maintain a healthy frame for years to come. Want to hear more from Dr. Gunter? Check out her podcast Body Stuff, from the TED Audio Collective.
- Subjects:
- Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Bones -- Physiology
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- Video
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Overcrowded clinics, extensive wait times and overworked doctors are taking a devastating toll on mothers and children in India. In this eye-opening talk, urogynecologist and TED Fellow Aparna Hegde exposes the systemic gaps that lead to preventable deaths every minute -- and introduces scalable, affordable and empowering tech solutions that improve maternal and child health outcomes, upend patriarchal family dynamics and save lives.
- Subjects:
- Health Technology and Informatics and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical telematics Medical care -- India
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- Video
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Easy access to nutrients has contributed to the increase in obesity in the human population. But, what is obesity and why isn’t everybody fat? Dr. Stephen O’Rahilly provides a biomedical perspective of obesity, and evaluates which genes could potentially shift the balance towards obesity. As he explains, one becomes obese when the balance between energy intake and energy spent is shifted. Surprisingly, mutations that lead to obesity in humans aren’t in genes involved in metabolism and energy storage, but failure in satiety signals in the brain that result in people eating too much. The excess of energy intake over energy expenditure leads to obesity. What is the consequence of obesity in human health? Physically, obesity can result in lower mobility and sleeping disorders. But, in humans, the link between obesity and metabolic diseases isn’t straightforward. For example, not everyone that’s obese becomes insulin resistant. As O’Rahilly explains, the probability of an obese individual to have a metabolic disease is linked to the capacity of adipose tissue to store the extra fat. Mutations that decrease fat storage in adipose tissue increase the chance of metabolic diseases, like insulin resistance, even when the person is not obese.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Obesity -- Genetic aspects
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- Video
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Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Health services administration
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- Video
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Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine."
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical geography
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- Video
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Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Mental illness -- Prevention Noise pollution -- Health aspects
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- Video
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Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Heart -- Diseases -- Research Heart diseases in women
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- Video
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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
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- Video
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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
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- Video
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Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two sexes respond to disease or treatment. As pioneering doctor Paula Johnson describes in this thought-provoking talk, lumping everyone in together means we essentially leave women's health to chance. It's time to rethink.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Men -- Health hygiene Women -- Health hygiene Health -- Sex differences
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- Video
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Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Child mental health Psychic trauma in children
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- Video
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What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health -- before you put it in your body? Genomics researcher Jun Wang is working to develop digital doppelgangers for real people; they start with genetic code, but they'll also factor in other kinds of data as well, from food intake to sleep to data collected by a "smart toilet." With all of this valuable information, Wang hopes to create an engine that will change the way we think about health, both on an individual level and as a collective.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Informatics and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical informatics Human genetics
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- Video
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Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role of informal caregivers -- those friends and relatives who, out of love, go the extra mile for patients in need. From personal care to advocacy to emotional support, unpaid caregivers form the invisible backbone of health and social systems all over the world, Williams says -- and without them, these systems would crumble. "How can we make sure that their value to patients and society is recognized?" he asks.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Caregivers
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- Video
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Raj Panjabi has a bold idea: to recruit and train an army of community health workers to bring medical care to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. See how technology is transforming things for health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's just-launched initiative, the Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact. Learn more at AudaciousProject.org.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Community health services Public health personnel Smartphones
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- Video
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What does the health of a region's animal population say about the health of the local humans? More than you'd think, argues Tracey McNamara. As an expert in zoonotics -- the study of diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans -- McNamara explains how paying attention to animal disease patterns could have predicted events like the 1999 West Nile Virus outbreak and stresses the need for global health agencies to start monitoring animals just as closely as they do people.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Communicable diseases in animals Public health Zoonoses
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- Video
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Silence is a rare commodity these days. There's traffic, construction, air-conditioning, your neighbor's lawnmower ... and all this unwanted sound can have a surprising impact on your health, says noise researcher Mathias Basner. Discover the science behind how noise affects your health and sleep -- and how you can get more of the benefits of the sound of silence.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Noise pollution -- Physiological effect Noise pollution -- Health aspects
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- Video
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In the US, the very same blood test can cost $19 at one clinic and $522 at another clinic just blocks away -- and nobody knows the difference until they get a bill weeks later. Journalist Jeanne Pinder says it doesn't have to be this way. She's built a platform that crowdsources the true costs of medical procedures and makes the data public, revealing the secrets of health care pricing. Learn how knowing what stuff costs in advance could make us healthier, save us money -- and help fix a broken system.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical care -- Cost control Medical care Cost of
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- Video
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The US health care system assumes many things about patients: that they can take off from work in the middle of the day, speak English, have a working telephone and a steady supply of food. Because of that, it's failing many of those who are most in need, says Mitchell Katz, CEO of the largest public health care system in the US. In this eye-opening talk, he shares stories of the challenges low-income patients face -- and how we can build a better system for all.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical care Poor -- Health hygiene
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- Video
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There's no shortage of resources to help people change their health behaviors -- but far too often, these resources aren't accessible in underserved communities, says physician Priscilla Pemu. Enter "culturally congruent coaching," a program Pemu and her team developed to help patients with chronic diseases monitor their health with the assistance of a coach from their community. Learn more about how this approach transcends language and cultural barriers -- and could potentially transform health care in America.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Chronically-ill -- Services for Health coaches
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- Video
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As a medical clown, TED Resident Matthew A. Wilson takes the old adage that laughter is the best medicine very seriously. In this heartwarming talk, he shares glimpses of how clowning around can help patients (and medical staff) navigate stressful situations -- with no side effects.
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- Psychology and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Wit humor in medicine Clowning
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- Video
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The coronavirus pandemic is unlike anything we've ever seen in health care, says emergency physician Esther Choo. Sharing insights into how health workers are responding to the outbreak, she explains what makes this public health emergency different from others -- and provides a few simple things you can do to help. Watch to the end to hear about Choo's work deploying mobile ICUs across the United States as hospitals start to reach capacity.
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- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
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- Emergency medical services COVID-19 (Disease)
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Physician and 2017 TED Prize recipient Raj Panjabi shares an update on Last Mile Health and the mission to build and scale a network of community health workers who provide essential medical services to their neighbors. Learn how the movement is creating fair, meaningful jobs -- and an equitable health care system that reaches everyone.
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- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
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- Community health services Public health personnel
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How does your genetic inheritance, culture and history influence your health? Biological anthropologist Lara Durgavich discusses the field of evolutionary medicine as a gateway to understanding the quirks of human biology -- including why a genetic mutation can sometimes have beneficial effects -- and emphasizes how unraveling your own evolutionary past could glean insights into your current and future health.
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- Health Sciences, Public Health, and Human Biology
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- Human genetics Health
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Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health while handling new and complex pressures? TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shows how writing and sharing personal stories helps physicians, nurses, medical students and other health professionals connect more meaningfully with themselves and others -- and make their emotional well-being a priority.
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- Health Sciences
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- Medical personnel -- Mental health
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School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout -- but there's often no formal policy for students who need to prioritize their well-being. Hailey Hardcastle explains why schools should offer mental health days and allow students time to practice emotional hygiene without stigma. Follow along to learn how she and a team of fellow teens transformed their advocacy into law.
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- Nursing and Health Sciences
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- Students -- Mental health
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For the poor and vulnerable, the health impacts of climate change are already here, says physician Cheryl Holder. Unseasonably hot temperatures, disease-carrying mosquitoes and climate gentrification threaten those with existing health conditions, while wealthier people move to higher ground. In an impassioned talk, Holder proposes impactful ways clinicians can protect their patients from climate-related health challenges -- and calls on doctors, politicians and others to build a care system that incorporates economic and social justice.
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- Social ecology and Health Sciences
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- Public health Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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When you report an emergency in the US, police, firefighters or paramedics answer the call. What if mental health professionals responded, too? Colorado State Representative Leslie Herod shares a straightforward and research-backed approach that brings heart and humanity to criminal justice rather than unnecessary fines and arrests -- and keeps crises from escalating into traumatic, or even deadly, events.
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- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
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- Mental health service Emergency management
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Your skin is your body's largest organ ... but it might be the most misunderstood, says Dr. Jen Gunter. From sunscreen to cancer and even chocolate, she tackles five misleading myths about skin and shares what you can do to protect it. Want to hear more from Dr. Gunter? Check out her podcast Body Stuff, from the TED Audio Collective.
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- Health Sciences
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- Skin
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Learners examine and identify the parts of the hip joint.
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- Health Sciences
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- Hip joint -- Anatomy
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Learners examine the anatomical parts of the lungs.
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- Health Sciences
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- Chest -- Anatomy Respiratory organs -- Anatomy Lungs -- Anatomy
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Learners examine the anatomical parts of the lungs.
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- Health Sciences
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- Chest -- Anatomy Respiratory organs -- Anatomy Lungs -- Anatomy
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The student identifies the anatomical parts of the ear and learns the purpose and function of these parts. A review follows the lesson.
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- Health Sciences
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- Ear -- Anatomy
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Learners review and reinforce their knowledge of brain anatomy and function in this learning activity.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Brain -- Anatomy
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- Others
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In this screencast, learners review the parts of the gastrointestinal system and then check their knowledge in a matching exercise.
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- Health Sciences
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- Gastrointestinal system Digestive organs -- Anatomy
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The user completes a fill-in-the-blank exercise to review the anatomy of the heart.
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- Health Sciences
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- Heart -- Anatomy
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- Others
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