reports Health / Medical

Doctor Hotspot
(20 minutes) New Yorker writer and FRONTLINE correspondent Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, N.J., who actually seeks out the community's sickest -- and most ... (more)

Post Mortem
(60 minutes) Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a ... (more)

Facing Death
(60 minutes) How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with ... (more)

The Vaccine War
(60 minutes) Public health scientists and clinicians tout vaccines as one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. But for many ordinary Americans vaccines have become ... (more)

Sick Around America
(60 minutes) As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses -- potentially increasing the ranks of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance -- ... (more)

My Father, My Brother, and Me
(60 minutes) In 2004, journalist Dave Iverson received the same news that had been delivered to his father and older brother years earlier: He had Parkinson's disease, ... (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)