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Choose Health: Managing long-term conditions

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Introductory Level Duration 15 mins Updated 26 Nov 2012
Long-term medical problems can change your life - but you have control. Could you balance your work and social life with medication regimes? Would you...

What is autism?

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 10 Aug 2012
There's a lot of confusion about what autism is. Ilona Roth and Rosa Hoekstra offer an easy-to-understand overview.

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Imaging in medicine

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Imaging in medicine Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Advanced Level Duration 15 hours Updated 20 Jun 2013
X-rays, CT scans and MRI scans are all medical imaging techniques of great practical importance that have been encountered by a great many people in...

Health and environment

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Health and environment Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Introductory Level Duration 12 hours Updated 20 Jun 2013
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and...

Issues in complementary and alternative medicine

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Issues in complementary and alternative medicine Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Intermediate Level Duration 19 hours Updated 20 Jun 2013
Why are so many people now turning to complementary and alternative medicine and why do approaches to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) raise such controversy?...

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Signals and perception: the science of the senses

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Signals and perception: the science of the senses Copyrighted imageCredit: Dreamstime
Advanced Level Duration 300 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 05 Sep 2013
Investigate how we interact with our environment through our senses – using concepts from biology, chemistry, physics and psychology to explore the process psychologists call...

Understanding cancers

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Understanding cancers Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Introductory Level Duration 150 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 12 Dec 2013
Gain a basic scientific understanding of cancer – how tumours are formed and spread, risk factors, diagnosis, pathology, prevention, treatment, and lifestyle management (including palliative...

Understanding the autism spectrum

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Understanding the autism spectrum Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University/Karen Parker
Introductory Level Duration 150 hours Updated 17 May 2013 Register by 10 Oct 2013
An accessible introduction to autism, this course explores principles and problems of diagnosis, possible underlying causes and issues of care, education and therapy.This is a...