reports Health / Medical

A Place for Madness
(60 minutes) In the last quarter century, many of the mentally ill in this country were discharged from hopitals with no coherent provision for follow-up care. ... (more)

AIDS, Blood and Politics
(60 minutes) Since the outbreak of AIDS more than a decade ago, an estimated 30,000 Americans have become infected after receiving HIV-contaminated blood or blood products. ... (more)

Prisoners of Silence
(60 minutes) Facilitated communication (FC) has been heralded as a breakthrough technique for nonverbal people with autism. The method uses a helper to control the involuntary ... (more)

The Health Care Gamble
(60 minutes) Frontline, in association with The Health Quarterly, presents a behind-the-scenes report on Bill Clinton's savvy campaigning and hard bargaining for health care reform during his ... (more)

In Our Children's Food
(60 minutes) Frontline traces the 30 year history of US pesticide use, regulation and scientific study and explores what is and is not known about the risks ... (more)

Choosing Death: Health Quarterly Special
(120 minutes) In the Netherlands, euthanasia has been openly practiced for twenty years. Through the personal accounts of doctors, patients, and families in Holland, this program explores ... (more)

The Death of Nancy Cruzan
(90 minutes) In 1984, a near-fatal automobile accident left Nancy Cruzan in a 'persistent vegetative state.' To permit the removal of Nancy's life support, the Cruzan family ... (more)

My Doctor, My Lover
(90 minutes) Dr. Jason Richter, a psychiatrist, had a sexual affair with his patient Melissa Roberts-Henry. She later sued him for sexual abuse. Frontline examines the history ... (more)

Broken Minds
(60 minutes) Three million Americans are thought to be schizophrenic. As medical science searches to find its cause, society struggles to understand a crippling disease that has ... (more)

Born in Africa
(90 minutes) Philly Bongoley Lutaaya was a celebrated singer.musician from Uganda who died of AIDS in December 1989. But he died a national hero because he gave ... (more)

The Right to Die?
(120 minutes) Frontline and Fred Friendly's Media and Society series join forces to examine the complex legal and moral issues involved in the US Supreme Court's first ... (more)

Babies at Risk
(60 minutes) The infant mortality rate in some Chicago neighborhoods is higher than that of many third-world countries. Frontline investigates the political and bureaucratic neglect which fuels ... (more)

Extraordinary People
(60 minutes) Over 25 years ago, scores of Canadian women gave birth to badly malformed children because of a prescription drug called thalidomide. This program, anchored and ... (more)

Prescriptions for Profit
(60 minutes) Frontline reporter Joe Rosenbloom investigates abuses in the fiercely competitive marketing and promotion of prescription drugs by the pharmaceutical manufacturers. The program explores the dangers ... (more)

Who Pays for AIDS?
(60 minutes) By 1991, health care for AIDS patients in the United States could cost an estimated $16 to $22 billion. Caring for AIDS victims is overwhelming ... (more)

Let My Daughter Die
(60 minutes) Joe and Joyce Cruzan want doctors to remove their severely brain damaged daughter from the life-support system that keeps her alive. Nearly two years before ... (more)

A Matter of the Mind
(60 minutes) Millions of Americans are mentally ill. They live in a world that is fragile and often frightening. Inside a halfway house in St. Paul, Minesota, ... (more)

AIDS: A National Inquiry
(120 minutes) Fabian Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he had AIDS. ... (more)

Sue the Doctor?
(60 minutes) For many doctors, practicing medicine has become a nightmare. Today, one out of every six American doctors faces a malpractice suit. Frontline takes an inside ... (more)

Better Off Dead?
(60 minutes) Frontline goes inside the hospitals where every day doctors, lawyers, and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for ... (more)