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Apr. 15, 2008
Sick Around The World
(60 minutes) Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about ... (more)
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Jan. 08, 2008
The Medicated Child
(60 minutes) Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral issues in children. Today children as young as four ... (more)
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Apr. 03, 2007
So Much So Fast
(90 minutes) When he was 29 years old, Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS -- also called Lou Gehrig's disease -- and told he had two to ... (more)
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Nov. 21, 2006
Living Old
(60 minutes) With 35 million elderly people in America, "the old, old" -- those over 85 -- are now considered the fastest growing segment of the U.S. ... (more)
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May. 30, 2006
The Age of AIDS
(240 minutes) On the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed cases of AIDS,
FRONTLINE examines one of the worst pandemics the world has ever
known ... (more)
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Feb. 14, 2006
The Meth Epidemic
(60 minutes) Speed. Meth. Glass. On the street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among motorcycle gangs in the 1970s ... (more)
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Nov. 08, 2005
The Last Abortion Clinic
(60 minutes) Today, the headlines are filled with speculation about changes in the U.S. Supreme Court and what those changes might mean for abortion -- an issue ... (more)
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Apr. 08, 2004
Diet Wars
(60 minutes) Americans spend $40 billion a year on books, products, and programs designed to do one thing: help us lose weight. From Atkins to Ornish and ... (more)
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Nov. 13, 2003
Dangerous Prescription
(60 minutes) As medications play an ever-increasing role in modern health care, the importance of FDA approval to consumers, it would seem, has never been greater. ... (more)
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Nov. 06, 2003
The Alternative Fix
(60 minutes) The past few years has seen an explosion in the popularity--and profitability--of complementary and alternative medicine. Under pressure from everyone from consumers to Congress--and tempted ... (more)
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Jun. 19, 2003
The Other Drug War
(60 minutes) As Congress seems closer than ever to passing a new Medicare prescription drug benefit for seniors, FRONTLINE investigates the conflict between major pharmaceutical companies and ... (more)
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Apr. 24, 2003
Cyber War!
(60 minutes) The Slammer hit on Super Bowl Sunday. Nimda struck one week after 9/11. Code Red had ripped through the system that summer. Moonlight Maze moved ... (more)
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Apr. 18, 2002
Modern Meat
(60 minutes) A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control found that a single fast-food hamburger contained beef from more than 100 cows. In the ... (more)
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Jan. 31, 2002
Inside the Teenage Brain
(60 minutes) It's the mystery of mysteries-especially to parents. Now experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding new explanations for why adolescents behave the ... (more)
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Apr. 24, 2001
Harvest of Fear
(120 minutes) A gene from a jellyfish is placed in a potato plant, making it light up whenever it needs watering. Rice plants are genetically transformed ... (more)
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Apr. 10, 2001
Medicating Kids
(60 minutes) Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modifying drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Adderall. But are these medications really necessary-and safe-for ... (more)
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Mar. 27, 2001
Organ Farm
(120 minutes) Imagine a world where every patient who needed an organ transplant could receive one right away. Such a future is promised by xenotransplantation, the ... (more)
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Apr. 18, 2000
What's Up With the Weather?
(120 minutes) Since the late 1980s, rising temperatures and dramatic weather-from heat waves and hurricanes to melting glaciers-have fueled a global political and scientific debate about whether ... (more)
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Apr. 04, 2000
Dr Solomon's Dilemma
(60 minutes) In the 1990s, cost-cutting HMOs were reviled as the enemy of doctors and patients. After fighting to regain control of the medical process, doctors ... (more)
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Jun. 01, 1999
Making Babies
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE examines the revolution in reproduction and the entrepreneurial atmosphere that imbues the practice of infertility medicine today. On the cusp of a new ... (more)
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