Even though marijuana is banned for general use, it is allowed — in some states — for medicinal purposes. Recent developments regarding marijuana have brought the debate on medicinal marijuana back to the nation’s center stage. Here are 50 blogs that can provide some helpful insight on the medicinal marijuana debate:

Blog Posts on the Medicinal Marijuana Debate

A number of blogs have addressed the issues surrounding the debate over the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Here some blog posts that examine the different sides of the issue.

1. Room for Debate: The New York Times offers a blog post on its popular site with an eye on the medical marijuana debate and what policy moves it entails.
2. NORML Blog: This blog focuses on working to reform marijuana laws and offers a post bringing your attention to a video debate between Ron Paul and Stephen Baldwin on medical marijuana.
3. Washington City Paper: Looks at the latest incarnation of the medical marijuana debate, and looks at both sides.
4. Political Fix: Provides background on the medicinal marijuana debate in Missouri.
5. Medical Marijuana Clinics: Looks at the controversy surrounding California’s clinics and dispensaries of medicinal marijuana.
6. Legalization of Marijuana: Presents an interesting post on the debate surrounding marijuana legalization.
7. Hemp News: Looks at the medicinal marijuana debate in New York state, and the points being made.
8. ProCon.org: Looks at different sides of the medicinal marijuana debate, providing an overview and presenting the for and against sides of the argument.
9. Learn. Genetics.: This blog from the University of Utah offers a look the medicinal marijuana controversy.
10. You Debate: Offers different views on medicinal marijuana.
11. National Geographic: Provides some insight into the medicinal marijuana debate, and the different issues.
12. Paging Dr. Gupta: Addresses the ways that the debate over medical marijuana changing.
13. Oncology Nursing News: Addresses the debates in different states, and across the nation regarding medicinal marijuana.
14. Debatepedia: Looks at the context and background of the debate surrounding medicinal marijuana, and identifies the main issues.
15. UPI: Offers a look at the medicinal marijuana debate in California, especially surrounding the clinics.
16. WiscTvChannel3000: This YouTube video addresses the medical marijuana controversy in Wisconsin.
17. Voice of America: Looks at the growing marijuana debate in California as the marijuana industry expands since the legalization of medicinal marijuana.

Medicinal Marijuana Policy

These blogs and blog posts look at the policies behind medicinal marijuana use, how they should be enforced, and what a system might look at.

18. Fox New Health Blog: This post looks at what’s behind the medical marijuana debate, and offers a look at policy.
19. CB Healthcare Blog: Offers an interesting post on the policies surrounding medicinal marijuana use in the workplace.
20. Nine to Thrive: Looks at policies surrounding disqualification of employees due to medicinal marijuana use.
21. Seattle PI: Tackles the news that the ACLU and marijuana petitioners are clashing over legalization efforts in Washington.
22. Civil Liberties: Here is an interesting look at why marijuana, is illegal. Even includes the point that on a national level, medicinal marijuana has yet to be accepted.
23. Associated Content: Offers an interesting argument against the legalization of marijuana, even for medical reasons.
24. DrugPolicy.org: Looks at marijuana policy facts, state laws and information related to medicinal marijuana use.
25. Marijuana Policy Project: Concerns with the problems that would result from wider medicinal marijuana use.
26. Justice.gov: Presents its own reasons that marijuana is problem, and that medical marijuana is “red herring.”
27. College and University Blog: Looks at the problems that could result from legalizing marijuana.
28. Health Blog: Reports on the medical marijuana policy to be followed by the Obama Administration.
29. Shots: This NPR blog looks medicinal marijuana in New Jersey and its development and policies.
30. FDA Law Blog: Offers information on policy for investigation guidelines and policies for medicinal marijuana.
31. Medical Marijuana Policy: Looks at different news items and issues related to medicinal marijuana, and efforts to create policy.
32. Inside Opinion: Looks at policies surrounding the “one patient per grower” policy in Washington.
33. CAMLAW: This law blog on complementary and alternative medicine tackles the issues and policies surrounding the medicinal marijuana controversy.

Marijuana Culture Blogs

Learn a little more about the people that are interested in legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes — and beyond. These blogs look at the medicinal marijuana controversy a little differently than some of policy debates.

34. Reality Catcher: Looks at marijuana policies, development and culture in different states.
35. The Conservative Pothead: An interesting look at marijuana from a conservative standpoint.
36. Cannabis Junction: Covers the latest in the world of marijuana and medicinal marijuana.
37. CelebStoner: Follows marijuana use among celebrities.
38. That was awkward…: A look at marijuana culture, as well as efforts to legalize.
39. The Pothead Pundit: Looks marijuana policy, news and cultures.
40. United States of Anthony: Random thoughts on policy, medicinal marijuana controversy and culture.
41. AntiSoccermom: This mom looks at the marijuana debate and culture.
42. The War on Drugs is a War on Me: Perspectives on medicinal marijuana from a patient.
43. Resolving Marijuana Prohibition: Addresses the issues behind marijuana legalization.
44. Drug Policy Reform Network of Oklahoma: Shares YouTube videos and posts regarding drug policy and medicinal marijuana.
45. Growroom.net: Looks at marijuana culture and news — in Portuguese.
46. Cannabis Culture: A look at marijuana culture and the news and policy surrounding medical use, as well as issues that arise.
47. My Daily Toke: A look at news and culture, and marijuana. Addresses issues surrounding the medicinal marijuana controversy.
48. Cannabis News: A look at different news items surrounding marijuana, use and medicinal purposes.
49. The Weed Blog: Takes a look at the culture of marijuana, and issues surrounding its use — especially for medicinal purposes.
50. Hats Radio: A blog and podcast that mixes environmental issues and marijuana issues, including medicinal purposes and general legalization.

The Brain

Complex and poorly understood, the brain is what makes everything work properly. The body may be kept alive, but without the brain, a person can’t truly live. Here are some interesting and weird facts about the brain.

1. The brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.
2. Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.
3. 80% of the brain is water: Instead of being relatively solid, your brain 80% water. This means that it is important that you remain properly hydrated for the sake of your mind.
4. Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep.
5. Your brain operates on 10 watts of power: It’s true: The amazing computational power of your brain only requires about 10 watts of power to operate.
6. A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream. A high I.Q. can also fight mental illness. Some people even believe they are smarter in their dreams than when they are awake.
7. The brain changes shapes during puberty: Your teenage years do more than just change how you feel; the very structure of your brain changes during the teen years, and it even affects impulsive, risky behavior.
8. Your brain can store everything: Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.
9. Information in your brain travels at different speeds: The neurons in your brain are built differently, and information travels along them at different speeds. This is why sometimes you can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.

Your Senses

You might be surprised at the amazing things your various senses can accomplish.

10. Your smell is unique: Your body odor is unique to you — unless you have an identical twin. Even babies recognize the individual scents of their mothers.
11. Humans use echolocation: Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation. It is thought that those who are blind develop this ability to heightened effectiveness.
12. Adrenaline gives you super strength: Yes, with the proper response in certain situations, you really can lift a car.
13. Women smell better than men: Women are better than men at identifying smells.
14. Your nose remembers 50,000 scents: It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells.
15. Your hearing decreases when you overeat: When you eat too much food, it actually reduces your ability to hear. So consider eating healthy — and only until you are full.
16. Your sense of time is in your head: How you experience time is all about your perception. Some speculate that stress can help you experience time dilation. Apparently, time manipulation isn’t just for superheroes.

Reproduction

How we as a species reproduce offers all sorts of interesting weird facts. Here are some of the weirder things you might not know.

17. Your teeth are growing before birth: Even though it takes months after you are born to see teeth, they start growing about six months before you are born.
18. Babies are stronger than oxen: On a pound for pound basis, that is. For their size, babies are quite powerful and strong.
19. Babies always have blue eyes when they are born: Melanin and exposure to ultraviolet light are needed to bring out the true color of babies’ eyes. Until then they all have blue eyes.
20. Women might be intrinsically bi: There are sex studies that indicate that women might bisexual intrinsically, no matter how they class themselves, while men are usually either gay or straight.
21. Most men have regular erections while asleep: Every hour to hour and a half, sleeping men have erections — though they may not be aware of it.
22. Sex can be a pain reliever: Even though the “headache” excuse is often used to avoid sex, the truth is that intercourse can provide pain relief. Sex can also help you reduce stress.
23. Chocolate is better than sex: In some studies, women claim they would rather have chocolate than sex. But does it really cause orgasm? Probably not on its own.

Body Functions

The things our bodies do are often strange and sometimes gross. Here are some weird facts about the way your body functions.

24. Earwax is necessary: If you want healthy ears, you need some earwax in there.
25. Your feet can produce a pint of sweat a day: There are 500,000 (250,000 for each) sweat glands in your feet, and that can mean a great deal of stinky sweat.
26. Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have could fill two swimming pools: Since saliva is a vital part of digestion, it is little surprise that your mouth makes so much of it.
27. A full bladder is about the size of a soft ball: When your bladder is full, holding up to 800 cc of fluid, it is large enough to be noticeable.
28. You probably pass gas 14 times a day: On average, you will expel flatulence several times as part of digestion.
29. A sneeze can exceed 100 mph: When a sneeze leaves your body, it does so at high speeds — so you should avoid suppressing it and causing damage to your body.
30. Coughs leave at 60 mph: A cough is much less dangerous, leaving the body at 60 mph. That’s still highway speed, though.

Musculoskeletal System

Find out what you didn’t know about your muscles and bones.

31. Bones can self-destruct: It is possible for your bones to destruct without enough calcium intake.
32. You are taller in the morning: Throughout the day, the cartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.
33. 1/4 of your bones are in your feet: There are 26 bones in each foot, meaning that the 52 bones in account for 25 percent of your body’s 206 bones.
34. It takes more muscles to frown than to smile: Scientists can’t agree on the exact number, but more muscles are required to frown than to smile.
35. When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles: Walking uses a great deal of muscle power — especially if you take your 10,000 steps.
36. Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body: Compared to its size, the tongue is the strongest muscle. But I doubt you’ll be lifting weights with it.
37. Bone can be stronger than steel: Once again, this is a pound for pound comparison, since steel is denser and has a higher tensile strength.

Unnecessary Body Parts

We have a number of body parts that are, well, useless. Here are some facts about the body parts we don’t actually need.

38. Coccyx: This collection of fused vertebrae have no purpose these days, although scientists believe it’s what’s left of the mammal tail humans used to have. It may be useless, but when you break your coccyx, it’s still painful.
39. Pinkie toe: There is speculation that since we no longer have to run for our dinner, and we wear sneakers, the pinkie toe’s evolutionary purpose is disappearing — and maybe the pinkie itself will go the way of the dodo.
40. Wisdom teeth: This third set of molars is largely useless, doing little beyond crowding the mouth and sometimes causing pain.
41. Vomeronasal organ: There are tiny (and useless) chemoreceptors lining the inside of the nose.
42. Most body hair: While facial hair serves some purposes, the hair found on the rest of body is practically useless and can be removed with few ill effects.
43. Female vas deferens: A cluster of dead end tubules near the ovaries are the remains of what could have turned into sperm ducts.
44. Male Uterus: Yeah, men have one too — sort of. The remains of this undeveloped female reproductive organ hangs on one side of the male prostate gland
45. Appendix: Yep, your appendix is basically useless. While it does produce some white blood cells, most people are fine with an appendectomy.

Random Weird Body Facts

Here are a few final weird facts about the human body.

46. Your head creates inner noises: It’s rare, but exploding head syndrome exists.
47. Memory is affected by body position: Where you are and how you are placed in your environment triggers memory.
48. You can’t tickle yourself: Go ahead. Try to tickle yourself.
49. Being right-handed can prolong your life: If you’re right-handed, you could live up to nine years longer than a lefty.
50. Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so.

Overall Lifestyle Blogs

These are blogs that address healthy living as an overall lifestyle. These blogs look at lifestyle design, and consider the whole picture.

1. Abundance Tapestry: Learn about creating a new lifestyle around healthy habits for mind and body.
2. Healthy Living Today: You can live a healthy lifestyle, even in today’s fast-paced world full of junk food and enticements to remain sedentary.
3. La Dolce Vita: Orchestrate your life around what makes you happy, learning to live well, body and soul.
4. Healthy Living: Will Taft offers insights in how you can live in a way that is healthy for you — and even for the earth.
5. Health in Life: A look at what you can do to increase your health and enjoy life more fully.
6. Ideal Bite: A look at healthy living from a bit-sized perspective. Learn how you can make small changes in your life that add up to a healthier lifestyle.
7. Healthy Living Blog: Get ideas for better living, including food and fitness, as well as a holistic approach to healthy living.
8. Whole Health Source: Learn more about wholesome living, for the body and the spirit. Helpful tips and insights into how you can improve your lifestyle.
9. Think Simple Now: Sometimes you have to simplify in order to succeed at a healthier lifestyle. Here are some ways that you can think simpler — and live simpler.
10. Live Lighter: Get ideas on healthy living from someone who once lived an unhealthy lifestyle.

Organic and Green Living Blogs

Many people believe that a healthy lifestyle can result naturally as a positive consequence associated with organic and green living. Here are some blogs that can help you live healthy — while being kind to the earth.

11. Healthy Green Lifestyle: Explores how you can be greener and healthier through the lifestyle choices you make.
12. Nature Moms: Get some great ideas from a mom who is close to nature. Learn how you can live healthy and green.
13. Natural Health & Organic Living Blog: Learn how you can enjoy a naturally healthy lifestyle when you choose an organic lifestyle.
14. Natural Life Magazine’s Editor’s Blog: Tips and hints on living healthier by living naturally. Includes information on natural parenting and healthy habits.
15. The Green Guide: Get lifestyle and healthy living tips from a source that puts things into a green perspective.
16. Green Living Tips: Integrate green living into your lifestyle, and enjoy better health.
17. A Green Living: This blog features stories of interest related to healthy lifestyles and green living.
18. Green Living Blog: This blog is provided by Green Footsteps, and offers tips, hints and recipes that can help you live healthy through a green lifestyle.
19. Natural Family Blog: Learn about healthy living from this family trying to live naturally.

Self Reliance and Self Sufficiency Blogs

Part of an overall healthy lifestyle is learning to be somewhat self reliant and self sufficient. Here are some blogs that can help you learn more about a lifestyle that is healthy and self sustaining.

20. Life on the Balcony: Learn how you can live healthy life, and improve your self sufficiency, even when you live in a condo or apartment.
21. The Cottage Smallholder: This is about raising your own food and taking care of yourself, even if you live in a small space.
22. Providently Yours: Learn about living within your means, food storage and how a healthy lifestyle can help you live better.
23. The Garden Monkey: Learn how to more effectively grow your own produce to reduce your reliance on stores. And learn how it’s healthier to grow your own food!
24. Real Self Reliance: Learn how you can raise your own food, and learn how you can be self reliant in other ways — including emergency preparedness — for a healthier lifestyle.
25. Adventures in Self Reliance: Emergency preparedness, health, food storage and frugal living are all topics on this blog showing you how to live healthy through self sufficiency.
26. Gardening Nude: Learn how to grow your own food from this blog that focuses on helping you grow healthy, wholesome produce.

Nutrition Blogs

Learn about proper diet and nutrition from these blogs addressing healthy eating habits.

27. Joanna’s Food: Get ideas on cooking healthy from scratch.
28. Circle of Food: Get helpful information on healthy eating, recipes and food recalls.
29. The Ethicurean: Learn about eating healthy, and organic, while still eating well. Delicious!
30. Kalyn’s Kitchen: Yummy and healthy recipes and ideas for better eating.
31. Dr. Weil: Get more information on healthy eating and diet in this blog that offers a fusion of Eastern and Western nutrition philosophies.
32. Vegetarian Foodie: Learn how you can enjoy good food as a vegetarian. And learn how to be healthy as a vegetarian.
33. Eat Live Run: Read this food journal for ideas on incorporating healthy eating into your lifestyle.
34. steph chows: A great blog on healthy eating that tastes good.
35. Nutritional Health Blog: Learn how different foods can help you improve your health on different levels.

Exercise and Fitness Blogs

Find out how you can live healthy through exercise and fitness. Tips and hints to improve your overall health.

36. Walking Blog: About.com offers this foray into the health benefits of a simple form of exercise: walking.
37. Old Man Running: Get inspiration for better fitness from this blog following a senior gentleman.
38. Female Fitness Blog: This blog is aimed at helping women achieve their fitness goals for healthier living.
39. Zen to Fitness: Incorporating a zen lifestyle with increased fitness.
40. Fitness Destinations: Learn about different exercise and training techniques that can help you reach your health goals.
41. Cranky Fitness: A guide to help you live healthy through better fitness.
42. Melinda’s Fitness Blog: Exercise routines and tips to help your workout.
43. Fitness Blog: Families.com offers this blog focused on family fitness. Develop healthy living together.

Mind and Spirit Blogs

Part of living healthy is taking care of your mind and spirit. Here are some blogs that can help you with your total health.

44. World of Psychology: Learn about mental health, and how to be healthy in mind, and address mental illness.
45. Urban Monk: Learn about how you can find happiness in life and in overcoming challenges.
46. The Positivity Blog: Learn about how you can live more positively, improving your outlook and mental state.
47. The Transition Project: Get some guidance and help on keeping your spirit healthy, along with your body and mind.
48. Live Mindfully: Focus your mind to improve your health through mindful meditation, eating and more.
49. Yoga and Meditation Blog: Learn about staying holistically healthy with the help of yoga and through meditation.
50. EnergyFanatics.com: This blog focuses on the connections between physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, helping you live healthy overall.

The courses listed below are divided into categories that range from disease basics and general diseases to specific diseases and workplace issues. Each link is listed within alphabetical order within those categories. While these courses are free to use, the universities that offer these courses do not offer credits for completion.

Basics

1. Basic Human Pathology: Parts I and II: This two-part course covers a wide range of both general and systemic pathology [Tufts].
2. Disease and Society in America: This course examines the growing importance of medicine in culture, economics and politics [MIT].
3. Histology: Study of Cells, Tissues and Organs: Use this course to learn more about how cells, tissues and organs react normally and pathologically [Tufts].
4. Microbiology: This course offers an introduction to the principles of infectious agents with an emphasis on pathology [Tufts].
5. Nano-life: An Introduction to Virus Structure and Assembly:
6. Principles of Human Disease: This course covers current understanding of and approaches to human disease [MIT].
7. Public Health Biology: This course offers an integrative molecular and biological perspective on public health problems [Johns Hopkins].

Diseases (General)

8. Chronic Infection and Inflammation: What are the Consequences on Your Health? Explore the new emerging field of pathogen-induced chronic diseases, including diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cervical cancer, hepatitis C and liver disease [MIT].
9. Contagious Diseases: Tuberculosis, cholera, HIV and AIDS are some diseases covered in this module [Rice University Connexions].
10. Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Case studies in this course focus on acute respiratory infections, hepatitis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, and other vector-borne diseases [Johns Hopkins].
11. Fundamentals of Epidemiology I: This course is the first half of a course that introduces the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems. When you finish, you can move on to Fundamentals of Epidemiology II [Johns Hopkins].
12. Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology: Learn about the pathophysiology of a variety of gastrointestinal disorders from gastroesophageal reflux disease to cirrhosis [Tufts].
13. Medicine and Public Health in American History: Take advantage of this introduction to differing conceptions of disease, health, and healing throughout American history [Notre Dame].
14. Oral Public Health and Community Service Program: Learn about the significance of oral diseases and disorders as a “silent epidemic” with grave impacts on general health [Tufts].
15. Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases: Study diseases such as Ebola, anthrax, smallpox, West Nile Virus, monkeypox virus, and more [Tufts].
16. Population Medicine: This course offers an introductory background into the clinical and pathophysiologic aspects of infectious disease of organ systems [Tufts].
17. The Causes of Particular Diseases in Terms of Environmental Factors: This short course covers HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria [Rice University Connexions].

AIDS/HIV and Sexual Diseases

18. AIDS and Poverty in Africa: This interactive seminar focuses on two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty [MIT].
19. Biography of the AIDS Epidemic: Creating an Oral-History Project: In two e-seminars, you can learn about the planning and execution of an oral-history project about AIDS and the physicians that treated it in the early years [Columbia].
20. Population growth and change: the impact of HIV/Aids: Learn through statistics and infographics about the AIDS epidemic in Africa [Rice University Connexions].
21. Sexual Health, HIV/STI, and Human Rights: This lecture covers human rights, sexual rights and responses to sexual diseases [Johns Hopkins].
22. STI Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Inform Policy and Program: Learn about human rights and how reactions to these rights may affect sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including STI and HIV [Johns Hopkins].

Bioterrorism

23. Biological Agents of Water and Foodborne Bioterrorism: This presentation examines the various biological agents that terrorists could use against food or water supplies [Johns Hopkins].
24. Case Studies in Terrorism Response: Learn about plausible bioterrorism scenarios, response activities and considerations for planning [Johns Hopkins].
25. Radiation Terror 101: This topic introduces general radiation principles, radiation safety and protection, and the basic types of radiological terror, and also provides practical guidance on acute response techniques and general countermeasures. A full version of this course is located at Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness (free registration required) [Johns Hopkins].

Cancer

26. America’s Battle for a Cure: The Culture and Politics of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: Learn how America’s fight against breast cancer has shaped treatment of the disease from the turn of the nineteenth century to today [Columbia].
27. Avoiding Genomic Instability: DNA Replication, the Cell Cycle, and Cancer: Learn how the process of DNA replication is regulated throughout the cell cycle and what happens when DNA replication goes awry [MIT].
28. Cancer Biology: From Basic Research to the Clinic: This course offers the molecular and cellular events involved in tumor formation, progression, and metastasis is crucial to the development of innovative therapy for cancer patients [MIT].
29. Fundamentals of Oncology for Public Health Practitioners: Learn the manner of disease presentation and treatment approaches for major cancers as well as explain the major differences in prevention studies as compared to treatment studies [Johns Hopkins].
30. The DNA Damage Response as a Target for Anti-Cancer Therapy: Analyze papers from primary research literature to gain an understanding of cell cycle regulation and DNA damage checkpoints that act as powerful emergency brakes to prevent cancer [MIT].

Diabetes

31. Diabetes Complications: Learn more about the processes that cause diabetes and how Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are treated [The Open University].
32. Living with Diabetes: Learn about the parts of the body and processes involved in the development of diabetes [The Open University].
33. Pathophysiology of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: Study the endocrine system and complex endocrine pathways that have increased understanding of normal human physiology and behavior [Tufts].

Heart Disease

34. A Love-Hate Relationship: Cholesterol in Health and Disease: Examine cholesterol’s role in the cell and in the body as a whole, from its function as a structural component of the membrane to its function in signaling [MIT].
35. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology: Learn the spectrum of coronary disease and cardiomyopathies as well as basics of vascular diseases [Tufts].
36. Cardiovascular-Respiratory Sequence: Learn heart and respiratory basics from this course, including pathologies [Open Michigan].
37. Introduction to Cardiac Care: This course helps student understand hearts, how they work, how to care for them when they’re healthy, and how to treat them when they’re not [Columbia].
38. Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases: This is an easy-to-understand primer on cardiovascular diseases, risk factors, treatments and preventative care [Open University].

Immunity

39. Evolution of the Immune System: Study the development of innate and adaptive immunity and factors, such as adaptive changes in pathogens that have shaped the evolution of immune system [MIT].
40. Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host Surveillance: Learn about current biological research and the course of pathogens in this course [MIT].
41. Immunology Sequence: Take a look at immunology basics and the immune system, including chemokines, leukoctyes, cytokines and medicinal approaches [Open Michigan].
42. Under the Radar Screen: How Bugs Trick Our Immune Defenses: Learn how microbes defeat human immune systems and the molecular mechanisms that are under attack in the process [MIT].

Influenza

43. Flu pandemic: how prepared are we? Learn about the ethical aspects of pandemic influenza in this podcast, including the causes and potential impact of a flu pandemic on the UK [University of Nottingham].
44. Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Public Health: This training examines how avian influenza could impact world health. A full version of this course at no charge is available at the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness (registration required) [Johns Hopkins].

Workplace

45. Disease in the workplace:
46. Hand Hygiene: Aimed at healthcare practitioners, this learning object describes why hand hygiene is so important in a healthcare setting [University of Nottingham].
47. Occupational Health and Vulnerable Worker Populations: This module discusses occupational health program considerations (including all levels of prevention) for vulnerable populations [Johns Hopkins].

Collections

48. YaleGlobal Online: Learn more about current perspectives on health hazards in an interconnected world.
49. Harvard Health: Use the “View Course List” link at top left to view lectures and resources for all health issues, including issues about disease and pandemics.
50. University of Virginia Health: This list of podcasts and Webcasts covers current issues, diseases and pandemics [University of Virginia].

1. Check labels
Organic foods mean that such foods have been produced without pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, bioengineering, etc. This is as per the statement by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This statement does not mean that everything is 100% since some of the components are 95% to 100% organic and this one should be taken with a lot of caution. In this case, it is important to ensure proper checking of the percentage being termed as organic as you go ahead to buy the type of food.

2. Select your organic options
It may be very expensive switching to a diet that is all organic. In this case, it is wise coming up with a choice of all those foods that you would like to buy that are organic. You can read from the list of different varieties of foods ranging from those that are highly affected by pesticides and hormones like the ones that have thin skins e.g. Apples, strawberries and those that are less affected like avocadoes due to their tough skins. From such a list you can make the best choice of organic foods.

3. Look for the best prices around
Organic foods tend to have higher prices than regular foods. Basically, the prices may have a very high range like from 10% to 200%. With this range of prices, it is advisable to shop tirelessly all the way from local stores, the farmers, health food stores, the local farmers market, link up online and browse through large retail chains of organic sections and the entire research will leave you with the best option for organic foods.

4. Ensure proper timing
It is important to ensure that you get quality products, whenever, you make a purchase. In this case remember that the organic foods are not preserved using chemicals and therefore, making arrangements with the green grocer on immediate delivery will help a lot since the products will reach you while they are fresh.

5. Involve the entire family
May be you are trying to change your lifestyle or for the entire family. If you are doing it for the entire family, ensures that you educate them on the new lifestyle you are trying to get through since you may end up coming up with your own garden that adheres to the same standards and hence have the family educated on this. The family may require education on the same ingredients as far as cooking is concerned.

6. Get a Shopping Card
In order to make it a rationally good and cheaper organic food you can sign for supermarket saving cards. There you can have after having saving cards you can take advantage of special rates on prices of certain food items.  And moreover according to your saving habits supermarket can available you the best and cheapest organic food.

7. Have Online Coupons for Organic foods
However, practical on pre-packaged organic foods you can have coupons from the websites of your favorite health food stores as well as your favorite companies.

First, the novice enters the nursing field as an aide gaining quite valuable exposure but not an actual qualification in writing. With this much practical training you get to have a forward placement in your BSN application. Since your resume reads quite well in terms of experience, you become quite a favored student. With your LPN papers already in the portfolio, you will still have to put another year into study in order to make it for the degree.

With an LPN qualification, you may be required to work under a physician, who will supervise your coursework in part. The student will however be subject to a very minimum number of tasks since they are not in essence properly registered to handle all tasks of a nurse. In the end, guidance through the basic tasks eventually earns the LPN a higher qualification for their registration into becoming competent care givers.

The BSN goes on for four years and is accepted as a valid qualification in all medical institution. Most people who have attained both the BSN and the ADN will find that getting a job is quite easy as they have all the bases covered.

Once you have obtained your degree you are guaranteed of a satisfying job that is well paying as well. You can then be able to care for people and inspire confidence in them both with your actions and qualification. The nursing world being quite scarce of trained individuals, you stand a sure chance of bagging any job you have already planned for.

Once you have attained the BSN you can then arrange for a course that will help you attain your Registered Nurse papers. With the BSN, you are prepared for research and leadership.