How Does Skin Cancer Work ?
Skin cancers are divided into many different fashions and types. This very graphic video explains the various forms of skin cancer. Discretion advised due to graphic content. 3 minutes and 16 seconds.
Visit websiteThe Origin of Aids
This 92 minute film (in 6 individual parts) investigates the origins of Aids. In the 1950s, American and Belgian missionaries in the Belgian colonies of the Congo widely distributed polio vaccine to a million children in a bid to wipe out the crippling disease; however, evidence now suggests that Dr. Koprowski's oral vaccine may have been tainted, and that the first instances of the disease may be linked to these inoculations.
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This documentary was produced in connection with the Salzburg Seminar session 398 “Achieving Food Security through Community-Based Food Systems,” sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It explores the responses to hunger and poverty in rural vilages in South Africa, and the efforts being made to develop a sustainable system of agriculture.
Visit websiteThe Enemies of Reason
This documentary looks into what professor Richard Dawkins calls The Irrational Health Service. Focuses on how health has become a battleground between reason and superstition. A growing percentage of society now spends a total of over 1.6 billion a year on superstitious alternative remedies, but 80% of them have never been subjected to properly conducted trials.
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This short documentary was made to develop awareness of one of the worst crimes happening in Africa today; the systematic rape of women and girls in undeveloped regions.In this, the first of several short films, the project was to create a small series of surgical training videos documenting vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) repair, the most common procedure performed at DOCS on any given day.
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Ashray, one of the project organizations that makes up the Committed Communities Development Trust, is Bombay’s first home for children who have either been infected or affected by HIV. The children at Ashray are there because their parents are unable to provide for them and often are very sick or have passed away. This documentary is about moving forward through loss and the creation of a new, communal family.
Visit websiteAs We Sleep
In the summer of 2002, Marcie Lotzgeselles’ parents welcomed documentary filmmaker Elizabeth McDonald into their home. Together they told the story of Marcie’s tragedy in order to raise awareness of the abuse that can take place in group homes for the developmentally disabled. The statistics presented in the film are based on data provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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CardioSense3D is a 4-year Large Initiative Action launched in 2005 and funded by the French national research center INRIA which focuses on the electro-mechanical modeling of the heart.
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Science department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, covering diverse topics, including, energy, innovation and technology, ancient worlds, food, drugs, and "pseudoscience and myth busting".
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Professional science film/VNR production, broadcasting and distribution. Useful jobs links, email alerts, fun games and news in a diverse range of scientific topics, from life science and women's health to hard sciences.
Visit websiteVodeo TV's medicine and health
Selection of videos available to view for a fee from the science and health section of Vodeo TV's library. Portal in French.
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