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I'LL MAKE ME A WORLD - The Freedom You Will Take (1985-present) - Learn about dance and art therapy.
NOVA - 18 Ways to Make a Baby - Learn about in vitro fertilization and explore the societal and ethical issues surrounding infertility treatments.
NOVA - Cancer Warrior - Determine the toxicity of salt to an intracellular liver process using a dose response curve to learn more about chemotherapy.
NOVA - How Cancer Grows - Use this Shockwave demonstration to learn about cancer growth, metastasis, and how common cancer treatments work.
NOVA - Making Vaccines - Create six vaccines in your own virtual laboratory, using a different technique to produce each one.
NOVA - Medicine Through Time - Learn about how doctors have treated infection, kidney failure, and diabetes through time in this online game.
PEOPLE'S CENTURY: 1900-1999 - Living Longer: 1944-1996 - Examine vaccination and other public health programs designed to eradicate disease worldwide.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Beyond Science: Healing Touch - Design experiments to test the effectiveness of biomagnetic therapy.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Bypass Genes - Use this lab activity to model gene therapies and recombinant DNA techniques.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Cop Psychiatrists - Learn about conflict resolution techniques.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Dragon Science: Wisdom of Li Shizhen - How much do you know about herbal remedies? Try this quiz.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Image-Guided Surgery - Learn how magnets are used in image-guided surgeries.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Mind Over Machine - Learn about biofeedback techniques and homeostasis
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - Remembering What Matters - Students learn about the uses of PET scans in brain research.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS - True or False - Students learn various strategies for improving memory.
SCIENCE ODYSSEY, A - Medicine and Health: Matters of Life and Death - Students trace the spread of an epidemic and research advances in disease-fighting medicine in the 20th century.
TRADE SECRETS - Evaluating Medical Studies - Identify methods of scientific research in health-related issues, examine studies to determine the appropriateness of the methods and sample groups, and analyze reported results of studies.
UNDETECTABLE - Disparities in Health Care - Investigate health disparities related to HIV prevention and treatment, study the Healthy People 2010 objective to reduce disparities in health care among Americans, and make recommendations about strategies to reach this objective.
UNDETECTABLE - Medicine Offers Treatment, Not Cure - Discuss treatment options for HIV infection and AIDS, conduct research on combination therapy, and simulate a multi-drug regimen for 24 hours using M&Ms to represent the medication.
UNDETECTABLE - Personal Involvement in Medical Care - Brainstorm about important health issues for physician-patient communication and develop teen-focused health advocacy statements entitled, "Tell Your Doctor HOW to Talk about Teen Health."
