That Sugar Film es el viaje que hace un hombre para descubrir la "amarga" realidad sobre el azúcar. Damon Gameau se embarca en un experimento único para documentar los efectos causados de una dieta rica en azúcares sobre un cuerpo sano, pero con la peculiaridad de que sólo consumirá alimentos que comúnmente son conocidos como "saludables". A través de este informativo y entretenido viaje, Damon resaltará algunos de los problemas que incomodan a la industria azucarera y dónde acecha el azúcar en los estantes de los supermercados. That Sugar Film cambiará para siempre tu forma de pensar sobre los alimentos "saludables".
Controvertido y aclamado documental que narra la vida de los reclusos de una prisión psiquiátrica de Massachussets. El documental estuvo prohibido en algunos estados norteamericanos varios años debido a su crudo retrato de los abusos sufridos por los internos a mano de los guardas de seguridad y los médicos de la institución. El título viene de un concurso de talentos organizado por los propios internos.
Set to readings of Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain', a collage of medical, art and found footage, exploring various medical cases, including reconstructing the damaged human body, the separation of Siamese twins, and Cold War era attempts to create superhumans.
Doctors and twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken's experiences through the Covid-19 pandemic have far more personal consequences than either could have imagined.
Faced with a traumatic injury that renders you permanently disabled; how would you reinvent yourself? Full Circle tells the story of Trevor Kennison and Barry Corbet’s shared resiliency and refusal to let their passion for life be limited by Spinal Cord Injury. It is an unblinking examination of the challenges of Spinal Cord Injury, and a celebration of the growth that such tragedy can catalyze.
Segismundo Morey ha pasado sus últimos años enfrentando los desafíos impuestos por la rara enfermedad de Andrade. Esta condición médica, que afecta su sistema nervioso y muscular, ha dejado una profunda huella en su vida diaria y en la de quienes lo rodean. A lo largo de los años, Segismundo ha tenido que superar obstáculos físicos y emocionales, lidiando con dificultades para caminar y moverse con normalidad. Sin embargo, a pesar de los constantes desafíos, ha encontrado consuelo y fortaleza en el amor y apoyo incondicional de su familia. Juntos, han enfrentado las adversidades de la enfermedad de Andrade, formando un vínculo indestructible que ha sido clave en su viaje compartido.
Six months after a tsunami hit South Asia on December 26, 2004, Muslim-American and Sri Lankan-born Dr. M. Rahmi Mowjood led a team of American doctors and medical students on a relief trip. While mentoring medical students and aiding injured villagers, Dr. Mowjood also finds a way to ask someone to become a member of his own family.
¿Quiénes son las personas que están detrás del movimiento internacional contra las vacunas Covid y por qué lo están haciendo? Este viaje al interior del asombroso mundo de los anti-vacunas lo descubre.
The Wait to Nowhere: When a Crisis Goes Untreated reveals an unspeakable reality: children living in the ER for days, weeks and even months at a time, awaiting dedicated care. This film explores the issue and touches on solutions. True stories are told by those living this nightmare, including hospitals that are caught up in a failed system, while lawmakers help lay out a plan to address the crisis before even more children’s lives are lost.
NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of a transplant, and researchers working to end the organ shortage. Their efforts to understand organ rejection, discover ways to keep organs alive outside the body, and even grow artificial organs with stem cells, could save countless lives.
Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions about the condition and treatment of its subjects. (archive.org) “Abstract: This film describes and demonstrates four types of schizophrenia. Filmed at various New York institutions, it shows patients singly and grouped in large, outside recreational areas. Some patients are blindfolded. Symptoms shown include: social apathy, delusions, hallucinations, hebephrenic reactions, cerea flexibilitas, rigidity, motor stereotypes, posturing, and echopraxia.” (Guide to Mental Health Motion Pictures)
Documental cinematográfico que engloba las labores realizadas por la fundación ¨Compañeros de Batalla¨, dedicada al cuidado y tratamiento de los niños con cáncer en el estado Zulia.
A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a man with a singular, unwavering focus — to eliminate the diseases of children. From his poverty-stricken youth on the plains of Montana, he came to prevent pandemic flu, develop the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, and invent the first-ever vaccine against human cancer.
La dislexia es, en efecto, una condición compleja que afecta a la lectura y la escritura, pero su causa exacta aún no se ha identificado claramente. Se cree que puede deberse a una combinación de factores genéticos y neurobiológicos. En cuanto a los métodos de tratamiento, existen diversas aproximaciones y enfoques, y no hay un tratamiento único que funcione para todos. Los métodos pueden incluir terapias especializadas, apoyo educativo y estrategias de enseñanza adaptadas a las necesidades individuales de la persona con dislexia. Es importante que los profesionales de la salud y la educación trabajen en conjunto para brindar el mejor apoyo posible a las personas con dislexia y ayudarles a superar los desafíos asociados con esta condición.
As the first part of our investigation, the CORONA.FILM prologue will delve into the science behind the pandemic. Starting at the very beginning, we shine a light on the responses. The aim is not to point the finger; our aim is to tell the whole story in all its complexity, as we believe that justice cannot prevail if only one side of the story is told.
Injectable anti-inflammatories, anticoagulants, anti-infectives, anticancer drugs and even cotton wools are in short supply. Like many others in France, the pharmacy at Rennes hospital is constantly on the edge. Over the past two decades, shortages of medicines and health products have increased twentyfold in Europe. With almost all laboratories affected, practitioners and health establishments are forced to juggle with quotas to make up for shortages. Some even have to prioritise patients in terms of access to treatments, according to scales established by the laboratories. In the Netherlands, hospital pharmacies have resigned themselves to manufacturing the molecules they lack.
Narrator and director Michael Schaap's confessional style and general goofiness bring levity to an awkward topic: "erectile dysfunction" and the little blue pill that treats it.
Through our subject Adam, we reveal the incredible changes and forces that take all humankind from Cradle to Grave.