- Concepts of health and disease.
- General types of diseases: infectious, hereditary, nutritional, chronic, terminal…
- Microbial diseases.
- Infectious diseases occurrence: epidemics and pandemics.
- Fighting infectious diseases: the immune system, vaccination, antibiotics.
- Malnutrition, eating disorders and digestive system related diseases.
- Respiratory system related diseases.
- Circulatory system related diseases.
- Good habits to keep a healthy heart.
- Urinary system related diseases.
- Degenerative nervous diseases.
- Drug addictions.
- Alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.
- Sensory organs related diseases.
- Endocrine system related diseases.
- Sexually transmitted diseases.
- Cancer.
Top 10 weirdest prescription drug side effects.
Most of us take prescription drugs: if all goes well, the drug works for you as it's supposed to. But there's no drug that works the same for everyone without any risks or side effects. Learn about some of the scariest ones.
Flu attack! How a virus invades your body.
Wondeful animation that shows you how viruses trick healthy cells to join the dark side.
Cholera's prevention preferable to its cure.
Learn how cholera kills by dehydration.
Killer cholera begins where other diseases end.
Learn how cholera can be treated succesfully.
How the world was rid of smallpox.
It's the only disease that humankind has successfully wiped out - and the eradication of smallpox was brought about by Edward Jenner.
Learn all the efforts required to make a new vaccine against a virus and why it takes six months from start to finish.
Learn how caffeine picks you up and which are its most remarkable effects on the nervous system.
This is your brain on caffeine.
Learn about the effects of caffeine withdrawal.
Heart Attack Due to Atherosclerosis
This narrated medical animation illustrates the story of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis.
Stroke
This video gives a thorough explanation of stroke, covering anatomy and physiology, different types of stroke, and treatment.
Smoking Causes Cancer, heart disease, emphysema
This animation shows the health risks of smoking tobacco.
Type 1 diabetes
This animation explains the causes, symptoms and treatment of type 1 diabetes, a condition in which your pancreas does not produce insulin.
Type 2 diabetes
This animation shows type 2 diabetes, a condition in which the level of sugar in the blood is too high.
Infection fighters
Short introductory video on the immune system and the skin as infection fighters of our body.
White blood cell chasing a bacterium
Watch a neutrophil white blood cell going after a bacterium in the blood.
HIV and AIDS
This video shows the function of white blood cells in normal immunity. It also portrays how the human HIV affects the immune system and causes AIDS.
