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  1. Pain, Pus and Poison (2013)

    Director
    Ben Crichton; Alex Freeman
    Producer
    Ben Crichton
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £34.99

    Dr Michael Mosley tells the story of how the world’s most useful and valuable drugs were created. The most poisonous toxin known to man, Botulinum, is now used as an anti-wrinkle drug called Botox. Yet it...

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  2. Nobel’s Greatest Hits: Medicine (2003)

    aka: Understand Medicine: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Five programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to medicine and one on Nobel himself. Each 10-minute programme gives a clear explanation of a major advance in medicine.

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  3. Superbugs: A Case of Natural Selection (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min., 2004 sale: £29.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Examines the serious threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria (suberbugs) and explains the evolutionary principles behind their development, why the problem is getting worse and how it is being dealt...

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  4. Old Enemy Returns, The (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the problems posed by the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, and the re-emergence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis for hospital-based medicine around the world.

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  5. Rising Threat of Infectious Diseases, The (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 2004 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Examines diseases caused by bacteria and viruses, current techniques used to fight them, and the dangerous new development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and deadly new viruses. Includes the development of...

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  6. Virus That Cures, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Judith Bunting
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at a virus derived from sewage that can kill bacteria - a bacteriophage, and the possibilities for using it against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria. Since the 1930s scientists in Tbilisi...

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  7. Pioneers, The (6 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Robin Brightwell; Julie Clayton; Sally Doganis; Fiona Holmes; Tessa Livingstone; Deborah Perkin
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min., 2000 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series looking at ground-breaking medical research and treatment during the 50 years of the National Health Service. 1 (producer Fiona Holmes): Sir John Crofton describes how, as a junior doctor, was...

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  8. Mould, The Myth and the Microbe, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    David Dugan; Oliver Morse
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the work of Horward Florey and Norman Heatley in the development of penicillin. Includes footage shot by Florey himself showing how penicillin was administered for the first time to soldiers in...

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  9. Abraham. Penicillin and After: The Rise of the Antibiotics Era (1990)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences

    Sir Edward Penley Abraham FRS (1913-1999) in conversation with Prof. Robert Thomas of Imperial College on 1 May 1990. Abraham and his colleagues at Oxford developed penicillins during the Second World War...

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  10. Antibiotics and You (1989)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Emphasises the need to follow instructions correctly when taking antibiotics - take the full course, don’t miss doses, take on an ampty stomach - and warning what to do if the tablets make you ill and...

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