Teenage Pregnancy and Adoption

ABC News

This ABC News program sheds light on the most heartbreaking dilemma a teen mother can face. Viewers enter the lives of Erin and Brookanne, who-because of college plans and financial hardships-have decided against motherhood and now reside at the Gladney Center for Adoption, a unique facility for pregnant teens in Fort Worth, Texas. Ob-gyn appointments, counseling sessions, and meetings with hopeful adoptive parents reveal the medical, emotional, and economic realities the girls must confront as the impending births approach. The program culminates with the arrival of the babies and, within days, the moment of greatest sadness and joy. Original ABC News broadcast title: A Rare Look at Teenage Pregnancy and Adoption. (38 minutes)

Touch

BBC Worldwide Learning

Why are humans so responsive to touch? This program calculates the different sensitivities of the body's most receptive parts. The density of touch sensors in the skin explains why some parts of the body seem to have a much lower pain threshold-a microscopic splinter in a finger can be extremely painful, while a cut on your leg may not hurt as much. University College London professor Tony Dickinson and Stanford University professor David Spiegel conduct experiments with electric shocks, painkillers, and hypnosis to demonstrate the brain's role in the experience of physical pain. A BBCW Production. (30 minutes)

Real Life Teens: Sexual Responsibility

TMW Media Group

After watching this video, viewers will have a better understanding of what sexual responsibility means, as well as possible undesirable outcomes of reckless sexual activity. Subjects covered include sexual activity in the teen years, the dangers of unprotected sex, how sexually transmitted diseases spread, potential consequences of having many sex partners, syphilis and HIV/AIDS, and emotional and monetary ramifications of teen pregnancy. Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. (19 minutes)

The Secret World of Pain

BBC Worldwide Learning

Some people suffer chronic pain long after an injury has healed, while others can jump from a two-story building and not feel a thing. This film reveals the physiological foundations of both scenarios as it examines the mechanics of pain perception. Viewers meet a family whose unique genetic code has lent insight into the sensation of pain, while a man who cut off his own arm to save his life describes what he felt—and what he didn’t feel—during the unthinkable experience. Researchers are finding that even early childhood events play a role in the ability to tolerate pain, and that a blend of neurology and psychology yields promising new treatments in its management. A BBC Production. (52 minutes)

Creation: Inside the Human Body

BBC Worldwide Learning

Following the progress of a couple who are expecting triplets, from the 4D ultrasound scan to the babies’ dramatic entry into the world, this program describes the improbable sequence of biological events that result in the birth of a new human being. State-of-the-art graphics depict the journey of millions of sperm cells as they race to the egg, revealing how the best is selected to fertilize it after the others are destroyed by white blood cells; a body beginning to self-assemble; and the face of a developing embryo coming together. In addition, viewers meet a woman expecting her 16th child, and the oldest conjoined twins in the world. A BBC Production. Part of the series Inside the Human Body. (50 minutes)

Alanna: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

National Film Board of Canada

Taken in by a loving family at just 8 weeks, Alanna grew up in the majestic wilderness of the Yukon mountains. Because her mother drank heavily during pregnancy, Alanna’s development was seriously compromised and she was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. Tackling the subject with sensitivity, Julie Plourde’s documentary speaks to the heart. Alanna is a wake-up call about a tragedy that’s largely underestimated by the public but of growing concern to health professionals around the world. This short film was produced as part of the Tremplin contest, which gives young francophone directors outside Quebec a chance to make their first film under professional conditions. (26 minutes)

Pain Management: Doctors, Patients, and the DEA

Nightline

High-dose pain management therapy involving narcotics has placed doctors and patients under scrutiny by federal regulators. Is the Drug Enforcement Administration simply cracking down on criminal overprescription and prescription forgery, or is it unfairly targeting doctors for merely doing their jobs, and punishing people with chronic pain? This ABC News program weighs in on the question through interviews with DEA Administrator Karen Tandy, a doctor convicted of overprescribing, and a patient serving a 25-year prison sentence for possessing too much pain medication. (22 minutes)

Developmental Tasks of Pregnancy: 2nd Trimester, Accepting the Baby—Maternity Nursing

Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc

In this instructional film, a woman in her second trimester discusses physical pregnancy developments.

Medications: Administering Oral Medications

Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc

This instructional film covers the procedure for administering oral medications. A nursing student identifies the patient, checks for allergies, explains the purpose of each medication, gives her the medications, documents medication administered in the MAR, and checks her reaction.

Pain Management: Care of the Hospitalized Child

Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc

This instructional film discusses pain management techniques for hospitalized children, including assessing pain level, oral medication administration, and monitoring patient response.

Play: Care of the Hospitalized Child

Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc

This instructional film discusses therapeutic play techniques to help hospitalized children gain a sense of control over their situation and learn about medical procedures.

Vital Signs: Basic Nursing and Nurse Aide Training

Occupational Training Solutions

This basic nurse and nurse aide training video demonstrates how to take patient vital signs, including oral and tympanic temperature; pulse; respiration; and blood pressure. It also includes pain assessment and wheelchair weighing techniques. Students learn important points to remember during assessment and what to report.

Mexico: The Last Resort

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Hopeful, excited prospective parents, happy, helpful surrogates and a baby brokerage offering an affordable plan. What could go wrong? In Cancun, Mexico and Los Angeles, California, Foreign Correspondent blows the lid on an unscrupulous operator preying on the dreams and life savings of clients, abandoning surrogates and failing to deliver babies despite claiming hundreds of happy customers. North America Correspondent Jane Cowan has this latest chapter of our investigation into the booming international surrogacy business.

Breaking the Wall in Global Maternal/Child Health: How Medicine and Politics Can Reduce the Scandalous Discrepancy Between Low- and High-Income Countries

Falling Walls Foundation

More than 300,000 compared to less than 30,000 perinatal and maternal deaths: this is the current discrepancy that exists in maternal/child health between the global North and South. While the problem is multifaceted, Wolfgang Holzgreve, having pioneered fetal and stem cell research and as officer of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, or FIGO, attempts to bring political awareness to this global crisis. In this video lecture from the 2010 Falling Walls Conference, Holzgreve encourages a coordinated effort of international and professional organizations, NGOs, and national governments to mirror the success of vaccination campaigns. Holzgreve is the author of over 500 articles, 180 book chapters, and 6 books; and the recipient of the prestigious Maternite prize and the Liley Medal. (16 minutes)

Intracytomplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) (in Spanish)

Ebix Inc.

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI, is a form of in vitro fertilization in which fertilization occurs outside of the body. (In Spanish.)

Vasectomy (in Spanish)

Ebix Inc.

A vasectomy is a procedure to cause permanent sterility in a man by preventing the transport of sperm out of the testes. A small incision is made in the scrotum and each vas deferens is tied off and cut apart to prevent sperm from being released within the ejaculate. The small skin incision is stitched closed and the surgery does not affect a man's sexual function. (In Spanish.)

Understanding Postnatal Depression

ClickView Pty Limited

New parents may go through a variety of mood changes after the birth of a child without necessarily experiencing postpartum depression. This program helps to identify postpartum depression, detailing its symptoms and explaining how it differs from other difficult emotions. Featuring an in-depth case study and commentary from mothers who have had the condition, a psychiatrist, and other experts, the video explores contributing factors and available treatments while dispelling myths and misconceptions. A viewable/printable worksheet is available online. (22 minutes)

Breaking Barriers: Chronic Pain—The Healing Arts

BBC Worldwide Learning

An 86-year-old woman with osteoarthritis; a young man with severe back pain brought on by heavy lifting; a middle-aged woman with rheumatoid arthritis and a car-crash injury worsened by a sexual attack—all three are featured in this film’s alternative medicine case studies. Shot at Boston’s Lemuel Shattuck Hospital when a pilot program focusing on chronic pain was in full swing, the documentary follows health care professionals using conventional and alternative medicine to combat patient stress and suffering. Ted Kaptchuk, director of the Pain and Stress Relief Clinic at LSH during that time, describes the many non-Western methods used in attempts to reduce pain and distress. Meditation, acupuncture, Ayurvedic treatments, and support groups are some of the strategies presented. A BBC Production. A part of the series The Healing Arts. (50 minutes)

Feeling Pain

Ebix Inc.

The pain receptors in your skin detect tissue damage. For example, when a bee stings, your peripheral nerves send a pain signal to your brain, which analyzes the pain signal.

Sperm Release Pathway

Ebix Inc.

Male reproductive components are the testes, urethra, vas deferens, prostate, seminal vesicles, and penis. The testes are made up of seminiferous tubules, coiled structures where sperm production occurs. Sperm migrate to the epididymis, on top of the seminiferous tubules, where they mature and are stored. When the penis fills with blood and becomes erect, with sufficient stimulation an ejaculatory process begins. The mature sperm travel from the epididymis through the vas deferens, a muscular tube that propels sperm forward with smooth muscle contractions. The sperm arrive at the ampulla where secretions from the seminal vesicles are added. From the ampulla, seminal fluid is propelled forward through the ejaculatory ducts toward the urethra, first passing the prostate where a milky fluid is added to form semen. Finally, the semen is ejected, or ejaculated, through the far end of the urethra.

Part 2: Inside Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic

Nightline

Clinic owner and anti-abortion advocates have different views in counseling pregnant women.

Pregnancy Care

Ebix Inc.

Before modern medicine, many mothers and their babies did not survive pregnancy and childbirth. Today, good prenatal care can significantly improve the quality of the pregnancy and the outcome for the baby and mother. Good prenatal care includes good nutrition and health habits before and during pregnancy, frequent prenatal exams, routine ultrasounds to detect problems with the baby, and routine screenings. The goals of prenatal care are to monitor both the mother and baby throughout the pregnancy, look for changes that may lead to a high-risk pregnancy, explain nutritional requirements during and after pregnancy, explain activity recommendations or restrictions, discuss common pregnancy complaints, and give support to the pregnant woman and her family.

1938 (Year by Year: 1929-1967)

History Education

Year by Year looks at 1938. Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of War of the Worlds panicked Americans across the country. In the U.K., Neville Chamberlain delivered his famous speech, “Peace in Our Times.” Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (45 minutes)

1957 (Year by Year: 1929-1967)

History Education

John Glenn's 1957 Project Bullet completes the first supersoic transcontinental flight from California to New York, breaking a speed record, as covered in this episode of Year by Year. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (45 minutes)

Margaret Sanger

Cobblestone Films

Birth control advocate, self-styled libertarian, and ardent proponent of women's rights-Margaret Sanger was all of these, as this balanced, probing documentary attests. Using rare archival footage, diary excerpts, and commentary from historians, critics, and relatives, the program traces Sanger's extraordinary life and exhaustive work in the promotion and legalization of contraception. The documentary examines Sanger's legal battles, her work to distribute scientific birth control information, and her best-known achievement: the establishment of Planned Parenthood. Grandson Alexander Sanger-himself a birth control activist-offers insight into her bohemian life as well as the fierce opposition she faced from conservative religious and social groups. Margaret Sanger is seen in both triumph and failure. At the start of her career, she opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. She finished her work a half-century later after launching the research that led to the birth control pill. But her darker side-her use of the racist and elitist arguments of eugenics-haunts her memory to this day. (87 minutes)

A Human Life Emerges

Elsevier GMBH

Human reproduction is a fascinating and complex process, especially when seen microscopically. This program presents a close-up view of reproduction, beginning with the fertilization of the female egg, through gestation and the millions of cell divisions, and culminating in the birth of a fully formed individual. Each stage of the development is visualized in sequence: when the heart begins to beat, when the limbs develop, when the child first moves and responds to stimuli, and when it offers its first cry to the world at the moment of birth. Sophisticated computer animation and technical narration are used throughout in an effort to explain the gestation and birth processes for the advanced learner. (35 minutes)

Run Like a Girl

Carol Cassidy

In this down-to-earth program, the unconventional yet extremely demanding sports of rugby, synchronized swimming, and double-Dutch rope jumping provide the context for teenage girls from a cross-section of ethnic backgrounds to probe the issues of adolescence. They discuss their feelings of liberation within the strict regimentation of competitive sports, their search for identity and self-esteem while revolting against the stereotyped expectations of others, body image, dating, and the importance of mothers and coaches as mentors. They also tackle social concerns, including bulimia, self-injury, suicide, broken homes, teen pregnancies, and crime. Run Like a Girl is a presentation of the Independent Television Service, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (57 minutes)

Pleasure and Pain

BBC Worldwide Learning

Exactly how much chocolate can someone eat before enjoyment turns into disgust? Why do people choose to experience the terrifying sensations of bungee jumping? Can forcing a smile actually create happiness? Using entertaining experiments and person-on-the-street interviews, this program takes a look at the science behind pleasure, pain, and the link between the two. Viewers meet new parents high on the hormone oxytocin, a man who cut off his own arm when he became trapped in farm machinery, and a child born with congenital insensitivity to pain. The role of the brain’s reward system in these and other, more common activities—falling in love, the anticipation of pain—is examined. A BBC Production. (50 minutes)

The Psychology of Pain

Skillbank Solutions Ltd

Wracked by emotions, the mind will often increase pain, while control of feelings such as fear, loneliness, and stress will generally reduce pain. This program presents the psychology of pain, along with ways to manage physical discomfort through therapy, various relaxation techniques, and coming to terms with physical limitations. (18 minutes)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Information Television Network (ITN)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a medical mystery, even though it affects approximately ten percent of adults. Using case studies and cutting-edge medical research, this program seeks to understand chronic overreaction of the bowels-a condition that has its roots in the complex interaction between the brain and the intestinal tract. Symptoms; exacerbators, including stress, hormonal fluctuations, and a history of childhood abuse; and psychosocial factors such as the stigma of bowel-related disorders are considered. (24 minutes)

The Brain-Body Connection

WETA - TV

Every year it becomes more apparent that mental and physical health are closely intertwined. This program, hosted by noted journalist Garrick Utley, presents research on the link between depression and disease, the brain's role in athletic performance, and the treatment of chronic pain. Experts from the National Institute of Mental Health, Harvard Medical School, The Salk Institute, and elsewhere share their remarkable findings on topics such as the relationship between depression and platelet clotting, how synapses are hardwired, and the development of a drug to block the encoding of pain memories. The program features segments with singer Judy Collins, who struggles with depression; major league baseball pitcher Orel Hershiser; and Joffrey Ballet dancer Taryn Kaschock, who copes every day with the pain of scoliosis. (57 minutes)

Prenatal and Early Childhood Nutrition

VISUALZ

Boost calorie intake, avoid hydrogenated fats, carefully read food labels—the list of dietary dos and don’ts is seemingly endless for new moms. Isn’t giving birth complicated enough? How can a rookie parent keep track of it all? This video provides clear, down-to-earth guidance for pregnant and nursing women as they endeavor to eat right for two. Viewers learn basic food-group facts tailored to maternity; a range of food safety precautions, from smart hand-washing methods to the best ways to avoid Listeria and Toxoplasma; the benefits of calcium, vitamin D, folic acid, and omega-3 fatty acids; the biological and psychological advantages of breast-feeding; and more. Real-world tips from a veteran mom and a registered dietician enhance the program’s reassuring, commonsense approach. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. (26 minutes)

Interviewing an Individual from a Family Perspective with Chronic Illness: A Clinical Demonstration

EFamilyNursing.com

A brief clinical interview honors the notion that illness is a family affair and demonstrates skills for how to assess the impact of chronic illness on one’s life and relationships (work, family, marriage, and children). Interventions of commendations and rituals are also illustrated.

12th & Delaware

HBO

Using impartial cinéma vérité observation that allows viewers to draw their own conclusions, filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Oscar®-nominated for Jesus Camp) expose the molten core of America's most intractable conflict. As pro-life volunteers paint a terrifying portrait of abortion to their clients, across the street, staff members at the abortion clinic fear for their doctors' lives, and fiercely protect the right of their clients to choose. Shot in the same year (2009) when abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was murdered in his church, the film makes these fears palpable. Meanwhile, women in need become pawns in a vicious ideological war – with no end in sight. An HBO Production. 

Caring for the Antepartum Patient: Obstetrical Nursing

Classroom Productions, Inc

This video discusses the terms viability, pre-term, post-term, and term as they relate to the fetus and looks at the expectant mother's physiology throughout the pregnancy and the changing nutritional needs of the mother. It shows how to record a mother's obstetrical history using the GTPAL system, demonstrates physical assessment of the mother, and explains what screening tests are performed.

Head-to-Toe Assessment: Assessment of the Newborn

Classroom Productions, Inc

Explaining the normal range of neonatal vital signs, this video teaches how to take a temperature, care for the cord, measure the newborn, perform a head-to-toe physical exam, and screen the newborn.

Cardiopulmonary Assessment and Cardiac Anomalies: Assessment of the Newborn

Classroom Productions, Inc

Explaining how fetal circulation differs from adult circulation, this video lists three types of respiratory retractions, differentiates between transient tachypnea of the newborn and respiratory distress syndrome, and looks at classifications of cardiac defects, considering the eight most common cardiac anomolies.

Pain Management in the Elderly

ClickView Pty Limited

Pain is something we all experience and is something that many people fear, especially as they grow older. Long term experiences of pain may well become increasingly common as we head towards an ageing society beset with multiple chronic diseases. It is therefore imperative that medical professionals understand the implications of pain and incorporate appropriate actions to assess and deal with pain into their patient care. This program considers all of these issues and looks broadly at pain management in the elderly. Three pain management experts share their insights with us, examining what pain is, assessment methods and common treatments available.

Sex, A Horizon Guide

BBC Worldwide Learning

Over the last 40 years, Horizon has followed the sexual revolution—from IVF and the contraceptive pill, to Viagra, genetic engineering, and frozen embryos. In this Horizon program, Professor Alice Roberts investigates the staggering progress in our understanding of sex and asks: can science save the day when sex goes wrong? Contains explicit nudity. A BBC Production.

Pain Management for Veterinary Patients: Part 2

Animal Care Technologies

A pain management program in veterinary care is straight forward. This film explains pain management techniques fortrauma and surgery patients suffering acute pain, and patients whosuffer chronic pain.

Pain Management for Veterinary Patients: Part 3

Animal Care Technologies

This video helps veterinary teams create a strategy for identifying and treating animals with chronic pain.

The Art of Acupuncture and How It Works: Veterinary Acupuncture

Animal Care Technologies

Acupuncture manifests a physiological response to help the body obtain better metabolic balance. This film demonstrates how to perform acupuncture on felines and canines.

Achille's Tendonitis/Strain: Taping and Wrapping Procedures

Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc

This film demonstrates the six steps for properly wrapping an Achille's strain/tendonitis.

Twice Born: Stories from the Special Delivery Unit - Part 3

PBS

This three-part miniseries steps inside the groundbreaking medical frontier of fetal surgery with an intimate look at the Special Delivery Unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. With exclusive access to this elite unit, the film captures rarely-seen, real-time footage of fetal operations.Meet expecting parents as they face difficult decisions.Should they take a leap of faith to repair birth defects with prenatal surgery, even if it means they might lose their child? Distributed by PBS Distribution

India: The Baby Makers

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Surrogacy is big business in India. It’s now worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year—fueled by tax breaks for medical tourism, childless couples around the world trying to start a family, and young Indian women desperate for money that could set their families up for life. But are ethics and adequate regulation being dismissed in the rush to supply thousands of foreigners and rich Indians with babies? We follow the paths of two Australian couples navigating India’s booming baby-making industry, paying and doing what it takes to succeed and bring a baby home. As we’ll see, results seldom play out according to hopes and dreams.

Keeping Your Back Healthy

Krames StayWell, LLC

Most people experience back pain at some point in their lives. In fact, back pain is one of today's most common health problems. Normal aging and certain physically demanding occupations tend to cause spinal discs to wear out. Bad posture and poor movement patterns can speed up that process. This program describes the care and proper balance needed for lifting heavy objects. Providing clear instructions and showing model techniques to help avoid strain and injury, the video is especially relevant for seniors. Topics include the correct posture for proper support, large and small muscles, reaching and twisting, and easy-to-remember tips. (6 minutes)

Formation of Twins: Intermediate

Ebix Inc.

Twins are rare, occurring in about 1 percent of all pregnancies. Of that number, 30 percent are identical twins. The other 70 percent are nonidentical, or fraternal, twins. A single baby, identical twins, and fraternal twins differ from one another in their development. With a single baby, when fertilization occurs the egg cell is fertilized by a single sperm cell to form a zygote. Over the next few days, the fertilized egg cell divides repeatedly to form a structure called a blastocyst, which is composed of hundreds of cells. If you looked inside the one-week-old blastocyst, you would see a mass of cells that will form the embryo. The blastocyst continues traveling toward the uterus, where it will implant in the uterine lining and grow into a single baby. Identical twins start from a single fertilized egg cell, or zygote, and therefore are called monozygotic twins. The egg cell is fertilized by a single sperm cell, as it is with a single baby. Unlike the zygote of the single baby, this fertilized egg cell will split into two separate embryos and grow into identical twins. The remarkable splitting event takes place during the first week after fertilization. It can happen at several different times: at the two-cell stage on day 2, at the early blastocyst stage on day 4, or in the late blastocyst stage on day 6. The stage at which the zygote splits determines how the twins will implant in the uterine lining and whether they share an amnion, chorion, and placenta. The earlier the splitting occurs, the more independently the twins will develop in the uterus. Identical twins that split during the two-cell stage will each develop a separate amnion, chorion, and placenta, while twins that split during the late blastocyst stage will share an amnion, chorion, and placenta.A common misconception about identical twins is that the trait for having them is passed on to future generations through the mother’s genes. The truth is that science does not know why identical twins occur. At this time, it can just be said that identical twins are examples of a nine-month double miracle. Nonidentical, or fraternal, twins develop from two fertilized egg cells, or zygotes, which is why fraternal twins are also called dizygotic twins. While a genetic tendency for identical twinning is unknown, the likelihood of bearing fraternal twins is definitely influenced by the mother’s genes. Normally a woman’s ovaries release only one egg during ovulation. When a mother of fraternal twins ovulates, sometimes her ovaries release two egg cells. During conception these egg cells become fertilized by two different sperm cells. Because they are the products of different egg cells and different sperm cells, fraternal twins do not look exactly alike. Sometimes they are not even the same sex. In the uterus fraternal twin embryos develop separately, each one having his or her own chorion, amnion, and placenta.

Learning about Crohn's Disease

Information Television Network (ITN)

Imagine a disease so potentially debilitating that going to work, having a relationship, or attending school creates a daily challenge. This is a reality for the nearly 500,000 Americans living with Crohn’s disease, a chronic disorder that causes inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract. It affects males and females equally, and may occur in people of all ages, although it is primarily a condition of adolescents and young adults. In this program, viewers learn what Crohn’s disease is, discover how doctors diagnose the disorder, and meet amazing patients who are living full lives while coping with the condition. The program also shows how physicians and scientists help patients and their loved ones have a better quality of life. (27 minutes)

IBS in Women

Information Television Network (ITN)

Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, affects approximately 46 million American women. IBS is both a biological and a psychosocial issue for many people. And because symptoms are not always the same for everyone, doctors can have a difficult time accurately diagnosing IBS, adding to the complexity of the disease. IBS is not inherently different in women and men, but it presents in women at a rate of three to one with men. As this program points out, no single treatment works the same way for every patient; but answers do exist for women affected by IBS, allowing them to greatly improve their quality of life. (27 minutes)

Angina: New Ways to Treat Chronic Chest Pain

Information Television Network (ITN)

It’s one of the scariest medical symptoms for people who are generally healthy: a tightening, painful feeling in the chest known as angina. In some cases, this chest pain can be a serious warning that requires immediate treatment. But for the millions of people with chronic, stable angina, the discomfort is something that can be readily managed with a variety of treatments. This episode of Healthy Body, Healthy Mind takes a look at what generally causes angina, what can be done to prevent it, and how it can be effectively treated with lifestyle changes, innovative drug therapies, and medical procedures. (27 minutes)

Rufino Tamayo

Protele, Inc.

Tamayo, who was born in Oaxaca, captured the beauty inherent in the simplicity of indigenous Mexico. This program covers a broad range of his work, showing his style and technical mastery while focusing on his ability to reveal the pain and hardship underlying the beauty that is Mexico, and the beauty underlying the pain. In Spanish.

Epidural Techniques in Childbirth

University of Leeds

In this program, obstetric anesthetist Dr. Martin Dresner explains the principles and method of epidural analgesia with the aid of an anatomical model and diagrams and then performs the technique on a patient prior to her elective cesarean section. The different uses of epidurals in obstetrics are also covered, as are the common side effects and potential dangers. Misplacement of the needle or catheter is also addressed. (21 minutes)

Teen Pregnancy: Reel Stories, Real Life

Channel One Communications

Being a teenager is difficult enough. Try being a parent at the same time! This program follows the stories of three young women with unplanned pregnancies: 15-year-old Valerie, 17-year-old Karina, and 18-year-old Sara. The program also presents another couple, Amanda and Tomas, who have chosen abstinence. In three segments, the teens are interviewed over the course of their pregnancies and after they have become mothers. In this emotional roller coaster, labor might be the least of their difficulties as Karina's and Sara’s boyfriends eventually walk out, Sara decides to put her baby up for adoption, and none of the young women return to school. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. (15 minutes)

The Abortion War: Thirty Years after Roe v. Wade

Nightline

In the years since the U.S. Supreme Court's legalization of abortion, the political scene has changed dramatically enough to threaten this landmark decision. On the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this ABC News program surveys the current landscape of opinion and political alignment, examining the shift of momentum concerning abortion rights. Correspondent Dave Marash reports from Minnesota, while anchor Chris Bury discusses the issue with a panel of women who hold disparate views on abortion rights. (22 minutes)

The Human Body Video Clip Collection

QA International

As amazing as it is complex, the human body is a marvel of biological machinery! This collection of 52 video clips (30 seconds to 2 minutes, 30 seconds each) combines high-quality film footage and detailed animations to take a close-up look at the body’s building blocks, the architecture of the body, the nervous system, the five senses, blood circulation, respiration and nutrition, and reproduction. Video clips include: • The Body’s Building Blocks—Introduction • The Human Cell • Chromosomes and DNA • Cellular Activity • Body Tissues • The Architecture of the Body—Introduction • The Skin • Bone Structure • Bone Growth • The Skeleton • The Head • The Spine • The Hand and the Foot • The Joints • The Muscles • Muscle Tissue • The Nervous System—Introduction • The Neurons • The Central Nervous System • The Cerebrum • The Nerves • The Motor Functions of the Nervous System • The Five Senses—Introduction • Touch • Sight • Hearing • Balance • Taste • Smell • Blood Circulation—Introduction • Blood • The Cardiovascular System • The Blood Vessels • The Heart • The Lymphatic System • Immunity • The Endocrine System • The Urinary System • Respiration and Nutrition—Introduction • Respiration • Speech • The Digestive System • The Teeth • The Stomach • The Intestines • The Liver, Pancreas, and Gallbladder • Reproduction—Introduction • The Male Genital Organs • The Female Genital Organs • Fertilization • The Life of the Embryo • Maternity (65 minutes)

The Story of Fertility

BBC Worldwide Learning

As she approaches her 40s, recently married presenter Alex Jones goes on a very personal journey: to discover the truth about a topic that affects countless women. This film tackles many common myths, explaining how the so-called "fertility cliff" at age 35 is based on statistics from 1700s France and revealing how the average maternal age in the U.K. recently hit 30 for the first time since records began. There are also some uncomfortable truths to confront, as Alex learns she faces a hugely increased risk of miscarrying or giving birth to a child with Down syndrome. Featuring extraordinary people who share their poignant stories, The Story about Fertility profiles the pioneering treatments that are making many couples’ dream of parenthood come true.

Tetanus: The Infant Curse

SW Pictures LTD

Every year thousands of babies die from a disease that strikes in the very first days or hours of life. Today tetanus affects only the world’s poorest and most remote communities—but it still claims the lives of about 150,000 babies every year. Poor hygiene and cultural traditions—like rubbing a mixture of soil and butter on a newly cut umbilical cord—gives the deadly bacteria the perfect opportunity to breed. We travel to Ethiopia where 14,000 babies die from tetanus every year.

Forget Me Not

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dementia is the second biggest cause of death in Australia. More than four-hundred thousand Australians are living with the disease and the figures are rising. Three families have opened their lives to Four Corners to tell their stories about living with Dementia.

What Is a TIA?

The Wellness Network

Learn what a TIA is, how it is a serious warning sign for a stroke, and the importance of calling 911 if someone is showing the signs of having a TIA.

What Is Coronary Angioplasty?

The Wellness Network

Watch how arteries in your heart become too narrowed and blocked and how this procedure can restore blood flow.

What Is Hip Replacement?

The Wellness Network

Watch how hip replacement surgery is used to relieve pain and restore normal function within the damaged hip joint.

After a Heart Attack: At Discharge

The Wellness Network

Become familiar with the common information that your cardiac team will review with you upon discharge from the hospital and the importance of following your discharge instructions.

Asthma Management: The Pollen Allergen

The Wellness Network

Watch this clip to learn how you can help manage your asthma when you are outdoors and when the pollen count is high.

Baby's Almost Here: Managing Risks as You Approach Delivery

The Wellness Network

This video will illustrate the importance of prenatal education in reaching the full 40 weeks of pregnancy. It will explain the importance of maintaining a proper diet and nutrition; avoiding alcohol, drugs, and cigarette smoke; and controlling weight gain during pregnancy. It will provide guidance on natural, spontaneous labor that includes getting regular prenatal checks, knowing warning signs to watch for, and understanding the optimal window for brain and respiratory development. In addition, the program will discuss the dangers of using medications to induce labor, including long-term difficulties for children who are born pre-term, encouraging women to accept help and try to enjoy their pregnancies.

Diabetes and Emotions: Recognizing Stress

The Wellness Network

Learn the common symptoms of stress and the importance of learning how to manage it.

Diabetes Management: Your Emergency Supply Kit

The Wellness Network

Learn which diabetes management supplies, medications, and documents you should keep on hand in case you need to use them in an emergency.

Heart Disease: Women at Risk—Part 1

The Wellness Network

This program explores the role hormone replacement therapy plays in heart disease and discusses ways to treat and manage cardiovascular illness. Featured physicians include JoAnn Manson from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Richard Stein from Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, and Jennifer Mieres from North Shore University Hospital in New York City.

Heart Failure: Beating the Odds: Part 2

The Wellness Network

There are several different tests that can help diagnose heart failure. In Part 2, discover what they are and when you need to ask for help.

Heart Failure: Beating the Odds: Part 4

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Heart failure is most often treated with medications. Part 4 will assist in understanding what the options are and how they help patients.

Living with Cancer: Part 1

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It's always bad news to hear a doctor say "You have cancer," but cancer today is not what it was decades ago. Cancer is something that patients can live with for many years, like high blood pressure or diabetes. In this program, you'll meet patients who are fighting the good fight; you'll hear what their secrets are to staying strong, happy, and relatively healthy.

Living with Heart Disease: Part 4

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Finding support from others who have the same experience with heart disease is a big part of cardiac rehabilitation. In Part 4, discover that cardiac rehabilitation helps with recovery.

Why Did I Go Mad?

BBC Worldwide Learning

When seven-year-old Rachel looked into the mirror one morning, she saw a nightmarish creature looking back at her. Without warning, teenager Jacqui heard voices telling her what to do. Oxford scholar David walked into his lab one afternoon and saw hideous rat-like creatures running around. Like millions of others, they had all developed psychosis. But why? For hundreds of years, psychiatry has treated voices and hallucinations as an enemy. But now, new insights are leading to a radical rethink on how psychosis should be treated. Horizon joins Rachel, David and Jacqui to explore the impact of social, genetic and environmental influences on this most notorious mental illness.

In the Family

First Run Features

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with a genetic test result that leaves her vulnerable and confused, she balances dreams of having her own children with the unnerving reality that she is risking her life by holding on to her fertility. In the Family follows Joanna as she connects with other women trying to navigate the unpredictable world of predictive genetic testing. Intensely personal and timely, this provocative film asks, how much do you sacrifice to survive? In July 2008, the film screened on Capitol Hill as part of an effort to pass successfully the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act. It was later leveraged to raise public awareness about the dangers of BRCA gene patents in the Supreme Court case that resulted in invalidating those patents in 2013.

Heroin and the War on Drugs

Retro Report

In the 1970s, frustration over heroin-related urban crime led to the War on Drugs. Today, heroin is back. But the users, and the response, are very different.

Vaccines: An Unhealthy Skepticism

Retro Report

An outbreak of measles that started at Disneyland turned a spotlight on those who choose not to vaccinate their children. How did we get to a point where personal beliefs can triumph over science?

Infection Control Challenges: Real Risks for Patients and Staff — A Lecture

PESI, Inc

In this video seminar, epidemiologist William Inman, who works with the CDC on disease outbreaks, teaches essential strategies to protect patients and staff from resistant microorganisms, reemerging vaccine-preventable diseases, and new infectious disease threats. He discusses proper aseptic technique, types of infections, immunization guidelines, the recurrence of such diseases as pertussis and measles, protection against multi-drug resistant organisms. The video also looks at influenza, emerging infectious diseases, hepatitis, and tuberculosis.

Diabetes Medications: Understanding Insulin

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Watch this video to learn how the medication Insulin helps manage diabetes.

Diabetes Medications: Using Insulin Safely

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Understand how to use and store your Insulin properly.

Exercise: Your Return on Investment

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Watch this clip to understand the benefits exercise provides for your body, mind, and overall health.

Gestational Diabetes: After Your Baby Is Born

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Watch this video to learn the possible complications and risks to both you and your baby after delivery and tips to help lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future.

Heart Failure: Making Lifestyle Changes

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Watch how making a few healthy adjustments in your everyday routine can reduce your symptoms of heart failure.

Heart Failure Medications: Digitalis

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Learn how the medication Digitalis improves the pumping action of your heart.

Heart Surgery: Preparing for Your Surgery

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Learn what you need to do in preparation for your heart surgery.

Newborn Care: Formula and Bottle Feeding

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Watch to learn the basic instructions for formula-feeding your baby.

Newborn Care: Common Health Concerns

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Learn common symptoms of illness and when to call your baby’s healthcare provider. The PKU test, jaundice, and the correct use of thermometers are explained.

Working Together as a Family

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Learn how roles change when a new member of the family comes home and how everyone can support Mom and bond with the newborn.

Postpartum Care: Your Follow-Up Appointment

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Watch this video to learn what your provider will check and discuss with you during your first healthcare visit, which should occur about six weeks after delivery.

Premature Newborn Care: Stress Cues

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Understand the signs that signal that your baby is experiencing stress.

Stroke: Getting Help

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Watch this video to see why it is important to call 911 if you or someone else shows signs of having a stroke.

Stroke: Common Effects of Right Brain Injury

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Learn the damaging effects caused by a stroke in the right side of the brain and how working with your healthcare team can help you recover.

Stroke: Emotions and Support

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Learn common strategies that can help patients and caregivers deal with the feelings and frustrations often experienced with stroke.

Treating Arthritis

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Learn several medication and non-medication treatment options often recommended to patients suffering from arthritis.

Women and Heart Disease: Cholesterol and Blood Pressure

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Learn the importance of knowing your cholesterol and blood pressure levels and the healthy lifestyle behaviors you can make to reduce these risks.

Women and Heart Disease: Stress

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Learning how managing your stress level through healthy lifestyle changes can reduce your heart disease risk.

Breastfeeding Made Easy: Part 3

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Understanding how to feed Baby properly is very important. Part 3 explains that babies don't feed on a certain schedule. Moms should feed Baby when the baby is hungry. An "on demand" schedule is recommended for a new baby.

The Phases of Cardiac Rehabilitation

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Learn about the three stages of cardiac rehabilitation and how each is important to your efforts to live a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Treating Coronary Artery Disease

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Learn about the various methods and medications commonly used to treat coronary artery disease.

Treating Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Glucose) When You Have Diabetes

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Learn what to do when you experience the symptoms of hypoglycemia.

Ultracet

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Learn what Ultracet is and how it works to help manage pain. Also, understand the possible side effects to be aware of and how to properly use and store this medication.

Understanding Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

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Watch this animation to see how surgeons restore normal blood flow within a heart that has narrowed or blocked arteries.