Diet Analysis Plus
This program has been designed to analyze your eating habits in relation
to your lifestyle and goals. You will be asked to fill out a personal
profile, which is stored to use for your diet. Factors such as your level
of activity, age, and height are used to balance a diet around your needs.
The program will help you learn what it takes to become a healthy eater
given your profile information. For instance, if you are a very active
person you will need more foods of a specific category. If you want to
lose some weight you can specify how much weight you wish to lose per
week, and it will balance your consumption accordingly. Daily food intake
reports are created and can be printed so you can analyze your consistency
in following your diet plan.
Foodwise
Foodwise gives you access to a wealth of nutritional and dietary resources,
perfect for planning balanced diets, exercise regimes and a proper weight
loss via BMI (body mass index) calculations. Learn how the body uses nutrients
and how dietary planning can improve your health and energy. Access nutrional
information on thousands of possible foods and have the Foodwise Diet
Analysis highlight calories, fat intake, carbohydrates, essential minerals
and vitamins over the course of one day or a week. This is an invaluable
tool for those in health or recreational studies, or for any individual
interested in maintaining a life-long healthy body.
Fundamentals of Nursing
The Fundamentals of Nursing program includes concepts, illustrations and
animations to help you better understand fluids and electrolytes. There
are nine quizzes included to help you check your progress. The evaluation
tool is provided to help instructors determine your competence in performing
the procedures used in Fundamentals of Nursing. Checklists can also be
used as self-evaluation tool.
Home Medical Advisor
The Home Medical Advisor is an excellent program for anyone researching
health-related topics. Symptoms helps you diagnose the patient, the Disease
File lists over 500 diseases and the Injury section lists injuries and
their effects. Check out the Poison index to treat the most commonly encountered
poisons. The Test file includes the most common and effective medical
tests in use today and the Drug file has information on generic and brand
name medications.
Interactive Concepts in Biology
Explore the fascinating world of biology, from the smallest cells to the
process of evolution. This highly interactive program offers in-depth
lessons in seven main categories: cellular life, genes and inheritance,
evolution, the effect of evolution on biodiversity, plant structure and
function, animal structure and function, and ecology and behaviour. Check
out a variety of chapter-based flash cards, search the wealth of interactive
and animated motion clips, or link to the resource-rich Biology website
for updated information.
Men are from Mars
Based on the popular book of the same name, this interactive program allows
you to explore how well you and your partner communicate. The initial
question and answer quiz is the best way to get started, allowing the
program to determine communication patterns in your relationship. This
is followed by movies and dialogue, which provide advice and comments.
The full text of the book, as well as success stories, is included. This
program provides a personal workshop towards a healthier relationship.
PharmAssist
PharmAssist, the Family Guide to Health and Medicine, is a reliable reference
to the world of health care and drugs. This program gives you complete
details regarding prescription and non-prescription drugs. First aid tips
and techniques, an in-depth “how to apply drugs” section, an “abused drugs”
section, a drug interaction section, travel information and full colour
illustrations, displaying hundreds of pills, capsules and tablets are
also included.
American Sign Language Dictionary
American Sign Language Dictionary is an interactive learning tool that
provides all the resources of a dictionary plus games, reference materials
and finger spelling aids designed to make learning ASL fun and easy. This
is a highly accessible program with features that include video clips,
illustrations and text descriptions for 2,200 signs, finger spelling,
slow motion or zoom in for a precise view of hand and finger motions,
practice games and sessions to test your knowledge, sign language etiquette
and facial expressions in using sign language.
Finger Spelling
Learn the alphabet and numbers of American Sign Language through drills.
Enter the letter and the computer shows you the sign. Set your speed and
move at your own pace from ABC drills to more advanced sections such as
prefix drill, suffix drill, consonant combinations, and all words at random.
Learn to Sign
This program teaches you the American Sign Language symbols for common
words. It demonstrates with graphics and visual aids, and tests your progress.
Sign Language For Everyone
Sign Language for Everyone is an interactive guide for learning American
Sign Language. The program begins with three categories: Using the program,
Introduction, and Fundamentals. There are 14 chapters in all, some of
which include symbols for the alphabet, common greetings, common vocabulary,
numbers and money and questions. There is also a Sign Index, an interactive
dictionary offering over two thousand words and phrases.
ADAM: The Inside Story
Now you can get inside A.D.A.M and see what makes him tick. A.D.A.M. is
an interactive program on human physiology and anatomy, an often humorous
multimedia experience that allows you to probe the secrets of the human
body using illustrations, animation, live action video clips and interactive
puzzles. Point and click your way through the human body with this anatomy
tutorial. You can dissect 100 peel-away layers of the human body, study
accurate rotatable graphics modelled after a real human, take a voyage
through the body’s 12 major systems, or search and identify over 4,000
individual structures.
Cardiovascular System
Cardiovascular System is an interactive tutorial that can be viewed with
or without the aid of an on-screen tutor. There are lessons pertaining
to two areas, the heart and blood vessels. The first includes intrinsic
conduction system, cardiac action potential, cardiac cycle and cardiac
output; the second, measuring blood pressure, factors that affect blood
pressure, blood pressure regulations and finally autoregulation and capillary
dynamics. In each lesson’s summary, you have the option of reviewing specific
areas of interest.
Muscular System
Muscular System is divided into six topics: anatomy review, skeletal muscle
tissue, the neuromuscular junction, sliding filament theory, muscle metabolism,
contraction of motor units and contraction of whole muscle. Each topic
includes animated diagrams along with verbal and written explanations.
A glossary is available to you at any time, and each topic provides useful
quizzes on the information covered.
Nervous System
The Nervous System program is a visually informative, interactive and
well animated learning experience. It requires your participation for
proper learning, and the quizzes are helpful and amusing, along with the
virtual professor. After an orientation, the program focuses on anatomy
review, ion channels, membrane potential, and action potential. The amusing
quizzes involve knowing the structure of neurons, the different channels
and how they operate (you physically move the ions with the mouse) as
well as membrane and action potential.
Nine-Month Miracle
Explore the human body and travel the passage from conception to birth
using Nine Month Miracle. Answer all of your questions and uncover dozens
of secrets with narrated animations, real-life video and sound, experts’
commentaries and text, a dictionary and real in-body photography.
Respiratory System
Respiratory System includes an anatomy review of the respiratory system,
pulmonary ventilation, gas transport, gas exchange and control of respiration.
You can quiz yourself by identifying the entire respiratory system, even
photomicrographs. A “link” option is available to take you to the corresponding
page(s) for help, and the variety of amusing sound effects make visual
learning fun.
The Total Heart
The Total Heart by the Mayo Clinic is an interactive guide to heart health,
including indexed help and an animated tour with sound. This program features
easy-to-use graphical icons covering anatomy, the normal heart, heart
disease, reducing risks, heart tests, treatments, cardiology, drugs and
emergencies.
Urinary System
Urinary System contains four topics: anatomy review, glomerular filtration,
early filtrate processing and late filtrate processing. For each topic
verbal as well as written explanations are provided. These explanations
are accompanied by active, animated diagrams that help you relate to the
explanations and easy-to-use quizzes (optional).
BodyWorks 6
Bodyworks allows you to explore the world of anatomy using pictures, text
and sound. Included in Bodyworks are 3D rotating views, detailed animations
and videos. A health section includes information on first aid, fitness,
sports injuries, common illness and nutrition. To enhance your knowledge
of human anatomy, try the lesson plans and quizzes. An extraordinary reference
tool for medical students and institutions.
Child Care
Approved by the Canadian Pediatric Society, this Child Care program provides
a comprehensive examination of the issues and delivery of child care.
Topics include coming of age in the community, physical health, safety,
social and emotional well-being, caregivers health and safety and administrative
issues. A comprehensive, easy-to-use topic index allows ready access to
all aspects of child care. An excellent reference tool for all childhood
educators.
Epilepsy
This program from the Corel Medical Series examines epilepsy from various
perspectives including pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment.
Topics include an introduction and history of the epilepsy condition,
the cause and scope of epilepsy, treatment and comprehensive case studies.
An interactive format which uses video, illustrations, animation and text
makes this a valuable reference tool to medical professionals, patients
and their families.
Mayo Family Health Book
The Mayo Family Health Book is a complete health encyclopedia with comprehensive,
easy-to-understand information on issues relating to good health. Much
of the Family Healthbook’s information comes directly from the experience
of the Mayo Clinic’s 1,100 physicians and research scientists. The Health
Book is divided into seven main sections: anatomy, life cycles, first
aid/safety, keeping fit, disease/disorders and modern health care. The
Health Book also contains a dictionary and hundreds of easily accessible
photo and video illustrations.
