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Meet Max and Austin Leclaire. They have Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The boys have been taking an experimental drug for years as clinical trial subjects. On Sept. 19, the FDA approved the drug for use.
Curated Video
Can America's War on Drugs Ever Be Won?
As our understanding of the consequences of drug abuse has improved, so America’s relationship with drugs has changed. From Nixon to Trump, the so-called 'War on Drugs' has cost the US government billions – but will there ever be an end...
Planet PE
GCSE PE- Performance Enhancing Drugs in sport PEDs
In this video we look at a GCSE PE topic from Paper 2 on Performance enhancing drugs. We look at examples of each type of drug and how a performer may benefit from using them and then give specific examples of advantages of disadvantages...
ProTeachersVideo
Secondary PSHE - Drugs
Teens giving their opinions on drugs. Intended to provoke classroom debate, these clips show teens talking about drugs. You might not agree with everything they say! What drugs would your students be able to get on their local streets?...
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: Tobacco, Vaping and Nicotine
This video discusses the drastic shift in societal views towards smoking over the past century, highlighting the harmful effects of smoking on the body, including immediate impacts such as increased blood pressure and long-term risks...
FuseSchool
What is a drug?
This video provides an overview of stimulant and depressant drugs, explaining their effects on the body and how they interact with the nervous system. It explores common examples of these drugs, such as caffeine, cocaine, alcohol, and...
Mazz Media
Smoking Kills (Diseases Caused by Smoking)
In this live-action program viewers will learn that smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death. Students will come to understand that when a person smokes, hundreds of toxic chemicals are inhaled with every puff and many...
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Drug and Alcohol Abuse
It lists the commonly abused drugs and alcohols, their chemical compositions and physiological effects.
Professor Dave Explains
Categorizing Drugs Classes, Names, and Schedules
How do we categorize drugs? How do we name them? This is quite a bit trickier than one might think, because there are different ways we might want to categorize them, each of which has its own application. Any drug also has multiple...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Pharmacology
What are drugs? What do they do? How do they do what they do? These questions are part of the field of pharmacology, and over this series we will learn all about a wide variety of different drugs that have clinical use. This will require...
Professor Dave Explains
Biochemist María del Mar Maldonado (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Maria is a biochemist from Puerto Rico! Actually technically she is both a biochemist and a pharmacist, since she has a dual degree called a Pharm.D-PhD. Her research centers around metastatic breast cancer, so let's check out precisely...
Professor Dave Explains
Pharmacodynamics Mechanisms of Drug Action
Now that we know how drugs move through the body to reach their target, what happens once they get there? By what mechanisms can drugs interact with target proteins to elicit a particular cellular response, and by extension a...
Professor Dave Explains
Drug Addiction and the Brain
We are able to become physically dependent on a wide variety of substances, which results in what we call drug addiction. What does this look like from a neurophysiological standpoint? What does the drug-addicted brain look like? Let's...
Global Ethics Solutions
Understanding Substance Abuse in the Workplace (Part 1)
Substance abuse in the workplace is a serious issue. This presentation helps employees understand the impact, effects, and costs of substance abuse in the workplace.
STAT
The war on disease
Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's -- why do some diseases still plague us? And can we cure them?
FuseSchool
Discovery and Development of Drugs
What is a drug? You can pause the video here and have a think, see if you know the names of any drugs. A drug is a substance that when released into the body will cause an effect. Drugs may be recreational, where people choose to take...
Step Back History
Did Medieval Anglo-Saxons Cure MRSA?
The world is at the verge of a crisis, where the antibiotics we used to treat infections for decades are becoming useless. It takes a historian and a microbiologist to possibly save the day.
Professor Dave Explains
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Staphylococcus aureus is the bacteria responsible for what we commonly refer to as a staph infection. They are extremely common, but they are also developing antibiotic resistance at an alarming rate. Let's take a look at these now.
FuseSchool
Antibiotics
Antibiotics… one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century. You’ve probably taken them at some point during your life… maybe for a throat or ear infection? About 20 doses of antibiotics are prescribed per 1,000 people every day...
FuseSchool
Penicillin
Penicillin is a type of antibiotic that can be used to treat bacterial infections. Really important - antibiotics can only be used to treat bacterial infections. Penicillin was first discovered in 1928 by a scientist called Alexander...
Science360
Good Vibrations
Elisa Konofagou, a bioengineer at Columbia University, believes ultra sound technology could become be a vital component in treating and perhaps curing degenerative brain diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. One...
Science360
3D Proteins Getting The Big Picture
Proteins are the workhorses of cells. With support from the National Science Foundation, University of Arkansas biochemist James Hinton has been researching their structure and function for decades. Back in the 1990's, he had a vision to...
Healthcare Triage
How Does the FDA Approve a Drug?
Have you ever taken an over the counter medication for heartburn? How about an antibiotic for an ear infection? At some point pretty much all of us have visited a pharmacy to pick up a drug, but likely didn't consider where these drugs...
FuseSchool
Ethics
What is ethics? Ethics is a system of moral principles and a branch of philosophy which defines what is good for individuals and a society. Our daily lives have lots of examples of ethics. From saying “Good morning!” with a smile to...