From OhioLINK Digital Media Center. Full-length educational videos covering a wide variety of subjects. The collection currently includes videos from two distributors, Ambrose Video and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

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In the program, we follow some of the most exciting new work. How does gender effect perception of pain and its treatment? How pain "imprinted" on the body? How can the body's own natural analgesics and defenses be mustered? How might "alternative" methods work? These are some of the issues we investigate. At the same time, we profile several patients who are dealing with the anguish of persistent pain today and surmise how they may be helped by advances in the future.

How hospitals across America are responding to clinical evidence that caring makes patients feel better, and get better. Bill Moyer.

Five patients of varied ages and at different stages of the disease including a 28-year-old woman with breast cancer and a 54-year-old man with Hodgkin's lymphoma and lung cancer progress with their families and caregivers through diagnosis, treatment, and the hopes and uncertainties that follow. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Production.

the World Health Organization's decisive counterattack on SARS. The coronavirus's emergence, its spread, and, through unprecedented international cooperation, its swift containment.

BS journalist Bill Moyers introduces crusading medical professionals--including staff members of the Balm of Gilead Project in Birmingham, Alabama--who have dedicated themselves to improving end-of-life care by changing America's overburdened health system.

University of Akron Interview with nursing theorist Kolcaba

2nd part of Interview with Kolcaba

VRE, a usually harmless microbe found in the human bowel and genital tract, is already drug-resistant; the other, MSRA, currently treatable with vancomycin-type antibiotics, is quickly becoming resistant to their effects. Using real-life case studies of patients who are infected, this program studies the effects of the diseases, how they are contracted, and their often deadly consequences. (45 minutes, color) 1998

This program examines recent outbreaks of parasitic or parasite-borne illnesses, including SARS, West Nile virus, Ebola, tuberculosis, and bubonic plague. (50 minutes, color)