Archive for the ‘video’ Category

UNC-TV SCIENCE: Lyme Disease

Public Broadcasting System, 2015. Duke University oncologist, and author of Gone in a Heartbeat, Dr. Neil Spector is interviewed on the life-threatening heart problems that resulted in a diagnosis of Lyme disease and a heart transplant. Includes charts, illustrations.

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365500117/ 

Ick, a Tick! Forum

Nahant Public Library, 2017. A forum on tick-borne diseases held at Nahant, MA Town Hall on April 23, 2017. Speakers included Catherine Brown, DVM, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Samuel Donta, MD, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Margot Malachowski, MLS, National Library of Medicine; and Lawrence Dapsis, MS, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, with additional input from Nahant Health Agent John Coulon and psychologist Sheila Statlender. Part of a larger STOP LYME initiative, the project was funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Cooperative Agreement Number UG4LM012347 with the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9y8UekZL4M 

Profile – Barnstable County Tick Program

Cape Cod Community Media Center, 2017. Larry Dapsis, entomologist of Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, discusses the Barnstable County Tick Project to lower the incidence of tick-borne disease through personal and property prevention. Includes images, video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l76xwt0_uLc&feature=youtu.be

Biofilms and Chronic Health Conditions: Challenged for Patients, Doctors and Researchers

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009. Wilmore Webley, PhD discusses the role of biofilms in the persistence of organisms such as Chlamydia pneumonia and Borrelia in chronic infection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zYTzTlTlk 

House Debate on Lyme Bill

September 27, 2008.  Representatives Frank Wolf (VA), Frank Pallone (NJ) and Chris Smith (NJ) discuss getting the Lyme bill (HR741) out of subcommittee.  Includes video.

http://www.lymerights.org/html/house_debate_on_lyme_bill.html

Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host

PLoS Pathogens. Description and images of live, infectious Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes disseminating in the blood and through mouse tissues. Includes charts, illustrations, images, and videos.

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000090

ResearchChannel – Grand Rounds: Lyme Disease and Its Treatment

Steere, Tufts University, 2002. Lecture from the former Yale researcher on his discovery of Lyme disease in 1975, and follow-up of the original cohort.

http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=2706

Lyme Disease and Related Conditions – Board Review

Yale University School of Medicine, slide presentation, no transcript. Schoen discusses epidemiology and over- and underreporting, especially in Connecticut and New York, describes clinical features of arthritis, and features of “non-Lyme” disease. Includes charts, images, maps.

http://www.hss.edu/professional-conditions_13522.asp

Update On Lyme Disease

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, audiovisual and transcript, 2002. Sigal discusses objective signs of Lyme disease, comparison with the bite of a brown recluse spider, habitat management, Lyme arthritis, and treatment.

http://www.hss.edu/conditions_14574.asp

Lyme Disease of the Nervous System: Tracking the Elusive Spirochete

Weill Cornell College of Medicine, 2001, audio and transcript. After a brief look at the history of Lyme, Bass discusses neuroborreliosis, its symptoms, testing strategies and challenges, and treatment.

http://www.hss.edu/professional-conditions_13468.asp