The Common Cold: How We Catch It and Treat The Symptoms
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: The upper respiratory tract consists of the nose, mouth, pharynx, and larynx. As air passes through them, these structures provide physical and immunologic barriers to infectious pathogens and other debris. In the nose…
- 5 days ago 14 Mar 24, 2:00pm -
Treatment Options for Type 1 Diabetes
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: If you have type 1 diabetes, your goal is to keep your blood glucose or sugar within a normal range. Your healthcare practitioner may suggest a combination of insulin therapy, other medicines, glucose tablets to quickly…
- 12 days ago 7 Mar 24, 3:00pm -
Hearing Loss Due to Nerve Damage
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Hearing begins with the external ear funneling sound waves through the external auditory canal to the tympanic membrane. The tympanic membrane vibrates in response to the sound waves. Three connected bones called the m…
- 19 days ago 29 Feb 24, 3:00pm -
Symptoms and Complications of Diabetes
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: You or someone you know may have been diagnosed with diabetes. This video will show you what it is and why it's important to keep it under control. People can have different symptoms with diabetes. Common symptoms inclu…
- 26 days ago 22 Feb 24, 3:00pm -
How Your Body Metabolizes Medications
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Drug metabolism is the chemical conversion of drugs into water soluble compounds that can be excreted by the body. Drug metabolism mainly takes place in the liver, while excretion mainly takes place in the kidneys. Follo…
- 33 days ago 15 Feb 24, 3:00pm -
Why Potassium Is Good For Your Body And When Too Much Is Dangerous
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: You or someone you care about may have been diagnosed with hyperkalemia, a problem in which too much potassium is in the blood. This video will help you understand more about hyperkalemia, including its symptoms, common…
- 40 days ago 8 Feb 24, 3:00pm -
How Medications Reach Their Target Sites Within Your Body
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Distribution is the process by which a medication is carried to its target tissue or site of action with the goal of causing a therapeutic response. This process follows medication absorption and precedes medication met…
- 47 days ago 1 Feb 24, 3:00pm -
Rescue Medications for Migraine Attacks
This animation is brought to you by the Association of Migraine Disorders, with support from Amgen/Novartis and AbbVie. Migraine is not just a headache, it's a complex neurological disease that impacts more than 1 billion people worldwide. This anima…
- 54 days ago 25 Jan 24, 3:00pm -
Inflammation: Immune Response to Tissue Injury or Infection
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Inflammation is a local immune response to tissue injury or infection, experienced as heat, redness, edema, pain, and loss of function. Immediately after injury, inflammation begins with brief vasoconstriction of the loc…
- 61 days ago 18 Jan 24, 3:00pm -
Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Rectum Removal
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: An open total mesorectal excision or TME is a surgical procedure to remove your rectum and some of the tissue around it. Your rectum is the last part of your large intestine before the anal canal. The rectum stores soli…
- 68 days ago 11 Jan 24, 3:00pm -
Common Causes of Respiratory Failure
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: The lungs are part of the lower respiratory tract and contain a series of subdividing tubes, beginning with the bronchi. Air passes through the bronchi into smaller tubes called bronchioles then into tiny elastic sacs ca…
- 89 days ago 21 Dec 23, 3:00pm -
Vaginal Yeast Infections
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: A vaginal yeast infection is a common condition where too much yeast grows in a woman's vagina. Other names for it are vulvovaginal candidiasis and candida vulvovaginitis. Yeast is a type of fungus which is a plant-like…
- 96 days ago 14 Dec 23, 3:00pm -