Healthcare Triage
Measles Infections Can Wipe Out Immunity to OTHER Diseases
We're very clearly in favor of vaccines here at Healthcare Triage, because they save a LOT of lives. It turns out, the measles vaccine was doing more than we previously thought. Getting infected with measles doesn't only make you sick,...
JJ Medicine
Autoimmune Hepatitis | Pathogenesis, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Autoimmune Hepatitis | Pathogenesis, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is an condition involving autoimmune attack of the liver, leading to damage, inflammation and subsequent liver failure (cirrhosis)....
Mazz Media
All About Vaccines
This dynamic, live-action video will inform students about the vaccines. The program begins with an explanation of the human immune system and how it defends the body from pathogens that cause disease. Viewers will learn the difference...
Next Animation Studio
Studies suggest measles may give the body “immune amnesia” by destroying immune memory cells
Scientists have found that measles is a lot more devastating to the immune system than previously thought.
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Antirheumatics (DMARDs)
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that primarily attacks the lining of the joints. While we are familiar with NSAIDs for their anti-inflammatory properties, with RA a much more useful class of drugs is DMARDs, or...
Catalyst University
Pulmonary Pharmacology [Part 2] | Drugs Affecting Inflammation
In this video, we explore the major classes of drug classes that are used in the treatment of pulmonary disorders (asthma and COPD) along with their mechanisms of action. Specifically, we consider the classes of drugs that directly...
JJ Medicine
Medical Terminology | The Basics and Anatomy | Practice Lesson 4
Medical Terminology, Practice Lesson Set 4 for The Basics and Anatomy Lessons. This is the fourth set of 21 Medical Terminology Practice Problems to help you bring together all the information you’ve learned from the Medical Terminology,...
JJ Medicine
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) | Causes, Pathophysiology, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) | Causes, Pathophysiology, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment Guillain-Barré Syndrome is a auto-immune demyelinating condition involving ascending weakness and paralysis. Guillain Barre Syndrome most...
The Wall Street Journal
The Global Race for a Vaccine and Drug
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, Dr. Julie Gerberding, chief patent officer at Merck and Dr. David Reese, executive vice president of research at Amgen discuss the race for coronavirus drug development at WSJ Tech Health.
Healthcare Triage
COVID-19 and Antibody Plasma Treatments
The FDA recently issued emergency use authorization for utilizing convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19. The idea is that using plasma from a donor who has recovered from Covid-19 has antibodies that can help treat patients who are sick...
Curated Video
Understanding Vaccination: How Memory Cells Respond to Invasion by Pathogens
This video provides an overview of vaccination, explaining how it triggers an immune response and manufactures memory cells, which enables the body to respond quickly and effectively to a particular pathogen in the future. The video also...
Healthcare Triage
Coronavirus and Immunity, MIS, and Hydroxychloroquine: COVID News Roundup 5-27-2020
If you've had coronavirus, are you immune or can you catch it again? What's this I hear about Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome? And does hydroxychloroquine work or not? Aaron talks you through the studies and facts about some of the...
msvgo
Principle of Immunisation
It explains the basic principle of immunisation and explains vaccines. It lists a few diseases against which vaccines are available.
Next Animation Studio
Mutation may have made the coronavirus more infectious and less deadly: scientists
The coronavirus had bifurcated into G and A viruses when COVID-19 spread to California in March, according to new research.
Next Animation Studio
Australian James Harrison's rare blood saves more than 2 million babies
Australian man James Harrison is known as 'The Man with the Golden Arm' after his blood was used to develop an injection that has since saved the lives of an estimated two million babies from rhesus disease.
Catalyst University
How Does Dairy Cause Inflammation? EXPLAINED
In this video, we explore how casein proteins in dairy products induce an inflammatory response.
Catalyst University
Pathway For Sperm and Egg Cells to Fertilization
In this video, we will examine the precise site of fertilization and then follow the physical path of the secondary oocyte (egg) and sperm cell (spermatozoa) to fertilization.
Next Animation Studio
Omicron’s ability to evade antibodies does not impair ability to bind to cells
Precise structural changes to the omicron variant’s spike protein have been identified that mean it is capable of breakthrough infections.
Catalyst University
Biotechniques | General Theory of Western Blotting
As always, the steps of Western blotting depend on your lab and protocol. Here, we look at the general theory of the Western blot and what it is used for in the lab.
Curated Video
How the Human Body Defends Itself Against Pathogens
The video discusses the human body's defense system against pathogens. It explains that there are two lines of defense - the nonspecific defense system that prevents pathogens from entering the body, and the immune system that destroys...
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: How Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID vaccine works
Johnson & Johnson announced on Jan. 29 that its single-dose coronavirus vaccine was 66 percent effective in preventing moderate disease
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: How the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID vaccine works
The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine was 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in clinical trials, AstraZeneca said in a November 23 press release.
JJ Medicine
Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) | Types, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a thrombocytopenia (low platelet count) that occurs after administration of heparin. There are two types of HIT, with type 1 being a temporary decrease in platelet count after heparin, and type 2...
Healthcare Triage
The Delta Variant and Vaccine Protection
What's the deal with Covid variants? How well do the different Covid vaccines protect against the several variants? Today we'll tell you about the several variants, including the Delta variant that is prevalent in the US, and we'll talk...