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Play video Snakebite

Snakebite

Topic: Health Series: Health
Nigeria is home to some of the deadliest snakes in the world and without quick access to anti-venom, their victims can be permanently disabled or die. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is...
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Play video Simulated Training For Surgeons

Simulated Training For Surgeons

Topic: Health Series: Health
Surgeons at Imperial College and St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington are practicing their skills in a simulated operating suite. To make it as life-like as possible the mannequin is controlled by another surgeon. The...
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Play video Robots Performing Surgery

Robots Performing Surgery

Topic: Health Series: Health
Robotic surgery is transforming modern medicine. Large movements of the surgeons hands in the operating theatre translate into very small movements of the robotic instruments. It’s less tiring for the surgeons and for...
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Play video Pure Water Bottle

Pure Water Bottle

Topic: Health Series: Health
Nearly 900 million people around the world don’t have access to safe drinking water. Pure Water Technology has designed a bottle that filters and sterilises water in less than two minutes. The water is...
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Play video New TB Drug

New TB Drug

Topic: Health Series: Health
A new drug is being developed which employs a new mode of action to kill TB bacteria, by targeting an energy-producing enzyme. It is the first drug in 50 years to be...
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Play video Mosquito Killing Fungi

Mosquito Killing Fungi

Topic: Health Series: Health
Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that mosquitoes are highly sensitive to fungi. One particular fungus, beauveria bassiana, is lethal for mosquitoes, but harmless to humans and other animals. Experts are now using the...
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Play video Mosquito Resistance

Mosquito Resistance

Topic: Health Series: Health
Research from the Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shows that mosquitoes are developing resistance to insecticides. Scientists are extracting the DNA from mosquitoes to work out what it is in their...
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Play video Male Circumcision

Male Circumcision

Topic: Health Series: Health
A new, simple, plastic device, which needs no anaesthetic, surgery or stitches will be used to circumcise up to two million men in Rwanda. Male circumcision reduces the chances of men in heterosexual...
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