Summary: People in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, usually in buildings with heating and cooling systems that inadvertently filter out certain airborne microorganisms. Rigorous ventilation seems especially important in hospitals - but have we been keeping helpful microbes out while creating an indoor breeding ground for pathogens? In this TEDTalk, engineer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This eye-opening program delves into humanity's war with lethal microorganisms and viruses. Astoundingly detailed images by medical photographer Lennart Nilsson illuminate how microbes attack the body and how our immune systems defend it. Reenactments of remarkable medical discoveries-penicillin, blood groups, methods of malaria control, and the polio vaccine-are portrayed, and cutting-edge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006