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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Some people can fight off infections relatively easily, with minor symptoms, while others suffer severely. But these outcomes--and our immune responses against them--aren't fixed; we can build immune resilience. But how? The answer goes beyond popping vitamin C and zinc during flu season. As clinical nutritionist Romilly Hodges reveals, our immune system is intricate and multifaceted, and powerfully impacted by what we eat, as well as by our lifestyle...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
Your immune system contains specialized white blood cells called lymphocytes that adapt to fight specific foreign invaders. Lymphocytes are derived from bone marrow cells and form two groups. One group migrates to the thymus gland and becomes T lymphocytes, or T cells. Hormones help the T cells mature, enabling them to attack foreign invaders and to provide cell-mediated immunity. (This immunity is deficient in persons with HIV, the virus that causes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the human body's fundamental defense system, from its component parts to what happens when the body's defenses are breached. Common and uncommon immune disorders are also discussed, as are potential new therapies to enhance or repair the immune system.
Pub. Date
[2006], c2003
Language
English
Description
This edition of Science Screen Report illustrates how the human immune system protects against the pathogens humans encounter on a daily basis. It explains the function of first-line defenses and white blood cells, the distinction between viruses and bacteria, and the different functions of vaccines and penicillin. It also shows what happens when the immune system falters or fails, and how immunological understanding is increasing. Use this video...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Although everyone who has ever had a cold is familiar with the human immune system and its importance, few understand just how complex and intricate the immune system is. In Immune, Internet creator and storyteller Philipp Dettmer takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle raging just under our skin, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Learn how the flu spreads as well as how it affects people, and understand that the best way to be protected is to be vaccinated for it each year. Also, learn the various options for administering the vaccine and that the best option will be used for you.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Childhood immunizations were considered a life-saver just two generations ago, but today they are controversial to some. This clip explains the importance of vaccinations in keeping your child and other children safe from diseases. A Production of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
It's called hereditary angioedema, and it's so rare popular television shows have used it as one of their mystery diagnoses. But the people who suffer with this condition face an illness that can be harrowing and horrifying because their faces or knees or other parts of their bodies suddenly take on grotesque proportions due to an unusual amount of swelling. It baffled scientists and researchers for many years, but today there are new treatments that...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2009
Language
English
Description
In extreme cases, primary immunodeficiency causes patients to live practically in isolation to avoid coming into contact with germs. This program looks at genetic defects that define the condition and spotlights treatments developed to help people with PI live essentially normal lives. In addition, Treating Primary Immunodeficiency introduces viewers to patients who have been living with the condition for years to illustrate how they deal with it...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Let us be honest - when reading the words "insect research," we'd rather kill insects than learn from them. Luxembourg-born immunologist Jules A. Hoffmann has based his multi-awarded career, crowned by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, on the opposite idea: "Our work on antimicrobial defenses in insects started out of curiosity. We realized that insects in our breeding colonies of grasshoppers were very resistant to infections, and we...
15) Immunizations
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Opinions about vaccines are easy to find on the internet and it can be confusing to know what to believe. This film uses CDC sources and documented studies to explore the truth about vaccines including: the history of vaccines, how vaccines are made , safety of vaccines, common ingredients in vaccines, and asking the question, "Do we really need vaccinations?" This film also covers immunization details Including: Hepatitis B, Rotavirus, DTaP, Haemophilus...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
According to The Economist, child mortality in Senegal dropped 40 percent in just five years, from 2005 to 2010 - one of the fastest global reductions ever witnessed. The country had falls of more than eight percent a year since 2005, almost double the percentage necessary to reach the Millennium Development Goal 4. In this Falling Walls lecture, Senegal's health minister Awa Marie Coll-Seck explains how such achievements are due mainly to immunization...
17) Immunity index
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way-before such things...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Las opiniones son tan fáciles de encontrar en el internet, puede ser algo confuso el saber qué es lo que debe uno creer! Este film utiliza fuentes de el Centro de Control de Enfermendades (CDC) así como estudios para seguir explorando las verdades detrás de las vacunas que incluyen:
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