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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmanda's Absence Should Vioxx Be Kept Off the Market?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentWhen chronic pain forces a top student to withdraw from college, biology instructor Dr. Sharpe learns that medications (in this ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Case of a Tropical Disease and its Treatment Science, Society, and Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Humanities, Life Sciences, Personal and Community Health, Economics and 5 additional..This case study highlights the epidemiological and socioeconomic factors associated with a disease which plagues thousands of pe...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Haemophilus Vaccine A Victory for Immunologic Engineering
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Career & Technical Ed, Personal and Community Health, Cells and 3 additional..This case study focuses on a young mother whose child attends a day care center where there has been an outbreak of bacterial me...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case of Respiratory Distress
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & PhysiologyThis clinical case study was developed to engage students by making connections between core concepts in chemistry and physiolog...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSometimes Less is Better The Treatment of Thromboembolism
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & PhysiologyEd Cramer is a 47-year-old mechanical engineer who is being treated for venous thromboembolism. He was 45 when he first develo...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMother's Milk Cures Cancer? Researchers Deliberate Over Whether to Publish
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Life Sciences, Cells, Professional DevelopmentThis case study on the immune system, cell cycle regulation, and cancer biology explores the role that serendipity plays in new ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs That Pill You're Taking Safe? A Case Study About the Drug Development Process
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis dilemma cased is based on the actual development, FDA approval, and market withdrawal of dexfenfluramine, a drug used in th...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFootball Fanaticism
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Learning TheoriesA fight in a college town bar between the football player of one team and a drunken fan of a rival team results in a serious spi...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAre You Blue? What Can You Do? A Case Study on Treatment Options for Depression
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, History-Social Science, Professional Development, Psychology, Learning TheoriesThis case study introduces students to treatment alternatives for depression using a jigsaw method in which groups of students a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen Drug Sales and Science Collide
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical TechnologyWhen "Jeff," a fictionalized drug representative, is placed on the Vioxx account in 2001, he finds himself pulled between sales...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPharmacogenetics Using Genetics to Treat Disease
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Life Sciences, Career & Technical Ed, Science 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