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41) Eating You Alive
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A scientific look at the reasons people are so sick, who's responsible for feeding them the wrong information, and how they can use nutrition to take control of their health.
Series
Video Games volume XBOX ONE
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Play as Kyle Crane in a new storyline and features
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
" Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of Americans today, and while most doctors focus on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure they are overlooking the real culprit: glucose levels. With today's overweight population adn dramatic increase in Type II Diabetes, studies now show that sugar, not fat, does most of the heart damage. Plague reducing statins used to lower high cholesterol treat some symptoms but not the cause of most heart disease...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Washington post reporter David Hoffman investigates the rise in hospitals, communities, and across the globe of untreatable infections. Fueled by decades of antibiotic overuse, the crisis has deepened as major drug companies have abandoned the development of new antibiotics. Without swift action, the miracle age of antibiotics could be coming to an end.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Explosives expert Andrew Marr suffered a multitude of traumatic brain injuries after being 'front and center' to hundreds if not thousands of detonations in Afghanistan, causing him to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol as he was constantly dismissed or mis-diagnosed. Dozens of high-profile people, from radio Host Joe Rogan to professional athletes Mark Rypien, Anthony Davis, Shawn Dollar, and CBS's Survivor winner Ben Driebergen, suffer from TBI...
49) World War Z
Description
"Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane ... [is] in a race against time to save both his family and the world from a pandemic that is toppling governments and threatening to destroy humanity itself"--Container.
50) 28 Weeks Later
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited, but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
51) Splinter
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Several people are trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts. Now the young couple and escaped convict must find a way to work to together to survive the primal terror that turns people into a bloodthirsty host.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
By the dawn of the nineteenth century, tuberculosis had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. The disease struck America with a vengeance, ravaging communities and touching the lives of almost every family. The battle against the deadly bacteria had a profound and lasting impact on the country, It shaped medical and scientific pursuits, social habits, economic development, western expansion, and government policy. The story is...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This videodisc examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called 'diseases of affluence' that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods and adopting a whole foods plant-based diet. This film tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.
54) Dawn of the dead
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
"When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive--and human" -- Container.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
From the discovery of the Polio vaccine to the breakthrough in mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, this exploration of scientific inquiry celebrates the greatest developments to date in vaccine science.
Get to know the physicians, scientists, and other researchers responsible for these breakthroughs in medicine, and explore the ups, the downs, and the eureka moments that are science in action.
56) Radium girls
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Based on true events, it follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie's world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. Based on historical events,...
57) The invasion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are starting to act strange. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son, Oliver...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Viewers will journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive. Weaved is an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists, and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.
59) Fantastic voyage
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
60) Battledogs
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
All of Manhattan is quarantined when the Lupine virus spreads like wildfire, turning innocent civilians into ravenous wolf-people. Nothing short of a nuclear blast can stop the monstrous virus.