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Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?

...health workers in Syria have become so frequent that medical relief charities have been forced to build hospitals in bunkers and deep into the side of mountains. The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), which provides medical relief across Syria and to refugees in neighbouring countries, now has 22 underground clinics in Syria. These care for some of the millions of...
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Happy New Year
Miscellaneous

Happy New Year

...health? Learning a language? Writing a book? Get started here...Don't give up, take up! New year, new resolution? Why not try taking something up rather than giving something up? We've got a few ideas where you could get started - take a look at the FREE tools and courses below and, to discover more about how we can help you, watch our short animation on to make the most...
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The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
Nature & Environment

The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict

...health consequences of exposure to conflict pollution soon faded after the fires were extinguished,” reads a report by the peace organisation PAX, issued during the UN Environment Assembly held last month (4-6 December) in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Focusing on the pollution legacy the war leaves for the local population, the report says that “although the...
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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...health has been invisible. It has only come to be recognised in the last decade. In 1997, only 30% of American women surveyed were aware cardiovascular disease (which includes heart disease and stroke) was the leading cause of death in women. Despite multiple media campaigns, this had risen to just over 50% of women in 2009. Different symptoms Both sex and gender need to...
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Changing approaches to heritage
Society, Politics & Law

Changing approaches to heritage

...public memory... Changing approaches to heritage An introduction to this album. What is world heritage? Dr Rodney Harrison of The Open University explores what is meant by world heritage and introduces the Lake District case study. Lake District: conflicting values Illustrates some of the conflicting sets of heritage values competing for prominence in the Lake District....
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Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. [Image of a young carer and an older person talking] Over a 100 million people in Europe care for a family member or friend. Many of them are caring for an older person and indeed many are older people themselves - caring for a spouse, sibling or parent who has reached great age. As the populations in Europe increasingly...
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An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...public. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K220 Death, dying and bereavement. Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, you can call Macmillan Cancer Support free of charge on 0808 808...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...public’s understanding of the brain, its disorders and our diversity as humans. Sacks wrote what he called ‘romantic science’. Not romantic in the sense of romantic love, but romantic in the sense of the romantic poets, who used narrative to describe the subtleties of human nature, often in contrast to the enlightenment values of quantification and rationalism. In...
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