Health Today Number 08

Cathy Boak hosts a program on Channel 13 covering health related topics. This episode examines hyaline membrane disease in infants and research done at Memorial University to create a safe, possibly synthetic, pulmonary surfactant to be used to prevent the disease. Dr. Wayne Andrews, a specialist in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Educational Television Centre
Other Authors: Boak, Cathryn Jean (Host); Andrews, Wayne, M.D.; Keough, Kevin;, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Format: Moving Image (Video)
Language:English
Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Educational Television Centre 1983
Subjects:
Hyaline membrane disease > Prevention
Newborn infants > Diseases
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/874
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Summary:Cathy Boak hosts a program on Channel 13 covering health related topics. This episode examines hyaline membrane disease in infants and research done at Memorial University to create a safe, possibly synthetic, pulmonary surfactant to be used to prevent the disease. Dr. Wayne Andrews, a specialist in newborn medicine at the Janeway Hospital in St. John's, Newfoundland, and Dr. Kevin Keough, a biochemist at Memorial University are interviewed.

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