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Girl Pulled Alive from Ruins, 15 Days after Earthquake
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This case examines the integrated physiological response to dehydration and starvation from the real-life report of a girl disco...Views: 0Favorites: 0Not Exactly... The Complexity of a Human Genetic Disease
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis case study follows a young couple that is consulting with a genetic counselor about their plans to have a child. Because of...Views: 0Favorites: 0Saving Superman: Ethics and Stem Cell Research
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis case explores the political and ethical issues associated with stem cell research. Students read the case describing Christ...Views: 0Favorites: 0A Difficult Pregnancy A Nurse Practitioner Looks for Answers
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional DevelopmentThis case study, about a developmentally disabled, 30-weeks-pregnant 19-year-old, presents some of the patient management issues...Views: 0Favorites: 0Childbed Fever A Nineteenth-Century Mystery
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Personal and Community Health, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional DevelopmentThis case describes the pioneering work of Ignaz Semmelweis and his efforts to remedy the problem of childbed fever in mid-19th ...Views: 0Favorites: 0A Case Study Involving Influenza and the Influenza Vaccine
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, History-Social Science, Cells, Life Sciences and 3 additional..This interrupted case study presents a discussion about the benefits of the influenza vaccine between Mary, a nursing student, a...Views: 0Favorites: 0Spirituality and Health Care A Request for Prayer
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional DevelopmentIn this medical ethics case, a fourth-year medical student making hospital rounds with an attending physician and several reside...Views: 0Favorites: 0When Drug Sales and Science Collide
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional DevelopmentWhen "Jeff," a fictionalized drug representative, is placed on the Vioxx account in 2001, he finds himself pulled between sales...Views: 0Favorites: 0It's Just Stress, Right? A Case Study on the Endocrine System
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentEllie is a struggling college student on the brink of failing her physiology course; not surprisingly, she exhibits many classic...Views: 0Favorites: 0Why is Patrick Paralyzed?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis clicker case introduces students to a rare genetic disease in which an enzyme is deficient in a critical metabolic pathwa...Views: 0Favorites: 0Pharmacogenetics Using Genetics to Treat Disease
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Career & Technical Ed, Science, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology and 5 additional..This case study investigates the applications of genetics to medicine by exploring one of the first examples of a pharmacogeneti...Views: 0Favorites: 0