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Management Occupations: Health Services Managers (2:29)
Health services has been a rapidly growing industry
Preventative Medicine: Public Health Awareness (2:12)
As the world gets smaller, public health becomes increasingly important.
Health: How Germs are Spread (1:45)
Follow these animated 'germs' as they spread colds from person to person.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Secondary Encyclopaedia Article
Read about this specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1948 to further international cooperation for improved health conditions.

AIDS: How HIV Attacks and Destroys the Immune System
LEARNING MATERIALS > Science > Interactive Lessons: Life Sciences
This activity explores how HIV replicates in T4 cells and compromises the immune system.

World Health NewsBank Special Report
Learn about health issues around the world. Read about Global health and the W.H.O. as well as gather statistics and visit related web sites. You can also get to this and other NewsBank special reports sign onto NewsBank, then select any of the featured reports at the top of the home page.

Is Smoking Only Bad for Smokers?- KidsPage Project
In this project students will think about: Where are rainforests? How are rainforests important to people? How can we help save the rainforests? (4th/5th grade reading level)

Can Sudan be Saved?
Source: Time for Kids - KidsPage Article
Violence, starvation and disease are killing thousands of people

A Grim Picture WORLD HEALTH
Source: Junior Scholastic- KidsPage Article
One out of every six is starving. And one out. of every seven has no access to health care.

The Benefits of Cloning Research EBSCO >Topic Search Database > Opinions and Viewpoints
Various cloning procedures could provide myriad of benefits to society, including help for infertile couples, treatments for genetic diseases or damaged tissues, the eventual reduction or elimination of hereditary genetic diseases, and the conservation of endangered species

The Problem of Cloning   EBSCO >Topic Search Database > Opinions and Viewpoints
This article presents an argument on the problems associated with cloning research. Cloning is a risky and poorly understood procedure, despite its promise of medical benefits and claims that it could restore endangered species.

Mumba Photographic Image
A 41 year old Gramby Zoo lowland Gorilla.

Dolly Photographic Image
World's first clone, 1997