Summary: Nothing can replace the skills of good doctors and nurses, but without digital technology and advanced electronic systems, the field of medicine would soon collapse. X-Rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRI and PET imaging all use electronics to map different aspects of the human body and convert the information into a visual format. This program visits one of the world's leading research centers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program features profiles of three women who have developed successful careers in medicine and health care: Karine Fortin, a pharmaceutical plant manager overseeing production and factory expansion; Sandra Swanson, a biomedical technologist who maintains and repairs hospital equipment; and Ann Perreault, a prosthetics technician in charge of evaluating and measuring patients. Additional...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Bryant, Jill
Summary: "Innovations in the medical field save countless lives daily. In this fascinating title, a timeline of breakthrough medical inventions is explored through dynamic photographs and interesting fact boxes. Fleming's advances with penicillin and the invention of the X-ray machine are some of the featured inventions that keep us in "the best of health!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610 BRYSummary: It has produced captains of industry for more than a century, but what specific training does the Harvard Business School offer? What can an HBS graduate expect in today's economic environment? This CNBC Original documentary ventures into the school's hallowed halls, examining the culture in which top executives and corporate leaders are groomed. Interviews with first-year students highlight...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Willett, Walter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HealthText Audio 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Provides consumer health information about the causes and management of various types of acute and chronic pain, along with prevention strategies and coping tips. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 PAISummary: The ability to be healthy is influenced by many factors-some of our choosing, and some not. This program examines how individual, sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors impact people's lives and what individuals can do to positively shape their health, both in the present and for the future. Topics range from modifiable and non-modifiable determinants of health, to how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to unite educational stakeholders at all levels with the objective of re-engaging what some have called the forgotten majority in U.S. high schools. In this interview, founding director Gene Bottoms, Ed.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about the HSTW program in general and Corbin High School, Kentucky-an exemplary case study-in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The World Health Organization defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health. Referencing the WHO's Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, this program takes a close look at lifestyle approaches, preventive medical approaches, and public health approaches to health promotion. The importance of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Garber, Jeffrey R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.44 GARFanta, Christopher H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.238 FANSummary: Stroke Sourcebook, Fifth Edition provides detailed information about stroke, its causes, and types such as Ischemic, hemorrhagic and recurrent stroke.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 STREpstein, Lawrence J. (Lawrence L. J.)
Summary: The author "reveals his proven, six-step plan to improve your sleep and presents his tips for dealing with issues such as insomnia, disrupted sleep, daytime exhaustion, restlessness, sleepwalking, and other chronic sleep conditions. He also offers you advice for handling jet lag, coping with shift work, and staying awake at the wheel"--Publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8498 EPSSummary: Compiling and retrieving up-to-date information on patients' illnesses, injuries, and medical history is more important than ever for effective medical care. This video focuses on opportunities in the field of healthcare information management and technology. Examples of HIM-related positions are covered-including medical billing specialist, diagnostic and procedural coder, and privacy...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Turow, Scott.
Summary: An autobiographical account revealing the shocking, fascinating reality of a first year at Harvard Law School.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaisance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 340.073 TURSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the family planning, contraception through counselling, maternal mortality, mental health, infertility, and sexually transmitted diseases along with information about safety tips, programs related to family planning, assisted reproductive technology, nutrition tips, a glossary of related terms, and list of resources for additional help"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.9 FAMKonitz, Lee.
Contents: No splice -- She's funny that way -- Time on my hands -- Foolin' myself -- Froggy day -- Ronnie's tune -- My old flame.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Storyville Records 1950
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ KONSummary: "This course offers a miniature medical school curriculum for nondoctors, structured into a "grand rounds" formate similar to how medical students and experienced physicians are taught at hospitals and universities."--page 1 of course guidebook
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 MEDChretien, Katherine
Summary: Being a physician is an amazing privilege, and it can be a deeply rewarding career...but first you have to get through medical school. Students, who were often at the top of their class prior to medical school, now find themselves surrounded by equally bright, hardworking, overachieving classmates and facing new challenges from rigorous curricula to specialty selection to navigation of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.711 CHRKey, Aidan
Summary: "Authored by a seasoned diversity educator, Trans Children in Today's Schools provides a pragmatic and thorough approach to creating inclusive, safe, and flexible environments for gender-diverse young people. The primary audience for this text is parentsand K-12 educators, as well as the extended support network in a child's life. This book goes well beyond the what and why of gender diversity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 KEYSummary: With the staggering variety of pharmaceuticals available today, training in correct drug administration is more important than ever. This program serves to build skills and awareness that will ensure the safe and accurate administration of medicines by health care personnel, as well as by the layperson. It examines factors that lead to medication errors, explores methods of prevention, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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William, Anthony
Summary: The second of two essential books on the brain offers customizable protocols, new recipes, heavy metal detox guidelines, cleanses, and cutting-edge information to protect yourself from 300+ symptoms and disorders. Your brain has abilities to heal beyond what medical research and science are aware of today. The brain remains a mystery to medicine when it comes to chronic illness and mental...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 WILSummary: U.S. health care has changed dramatically during the past century. A new breed of physicians use new machines, vaccines, and ideas in ways that have touched the lives of virtually everyone. How and why did these changes occur?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1993