Video Library
The New England Consortium of Metabolic Programs has a collection of historical and current videos illustrating vital concepts in metabolic research, screening, and treatment.
a 10 part series covering the history of newborn screening and moving through current screening methods and public health approaches.
A public domain with many short videos, developed by disease foundations, health care institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and/or other organizations, in which the patient (and/or caregiver) story has been filmed and recorded. These clips can be downloaded from their original location into any lecture or seminar, thereby enhancing the quality of the presentation because the patient experience is included.
VMP believes that clinicians are more likely to recognize a patient with a metabolic disorder if they have already seen or heard about such a case before.
Dr. Harvey Levy of Boston Children’s Hospital was presented with the Asbjørn Følling Memorial Lecture Award for delivering this talk, “Heroes of PKU — A History” This video is property of the PKU Academy. The PKU Academy provides complete and up-to-date information about PKU to healthcare professionals who are interested in the subject or already actively engaged in the field. Information and training, based on individual education need, is delivered by the world's top PKU experts.
The video was produced in the USA in 1970 by Dr. Robert Guthrie to explain newborn screening to public health laboratories in the USA. Dr. Guthrie wanted to introduce the concept of a cost-effective and ubiquitous Newborn Screening Test, including how to obtain samples, and process them in a lab. With an introduction by Dr. Harvey Levy, Senior Physician in Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.
An interview with Dr. Asbjørn Følling, a Norwegian physician and biochemist, who discovered phenylketonuria (PKU) while treating two children in Norway in 1934. includes an introduction by Dr. Harvey Levy, Senior Associate in Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, recorded in 2009.
This silent 8mm film, made by German doctor Horst Bickel, documents his discovery of the effects of phenylalanine on a patient with phenylketonuria (PKU), and features the first ever dietary treatment for PKU. Filmed at The Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, England, 1954-1955. Introduced by Dr. Harvey Levy, Senior Physician in Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.