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Life as a teenager is hard. Life gets even harder when you're a teenager suffering from a life-threatening illness. Compound illness, adolescence, and the fact that you're spending most of your time in the hospital; life can get very lonely. The only person who could possibly understand may be a teenager living a similar life. When two critically ill teens met at a hospital, only time will tell if they will become friends or even fall in love?
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John Davidson is 16 and often flies into hyperactive outbursts, punctuated by profanity. He has a nervous disorder called Tourette's syndrome-a socially crippling condition that causes John to uncontrollably say and do things. In this program, we follow John through an ordinary day, during which he struggles and mostly fails to control his behavior. Family members describe the daily strain of living with someone with Tourette's, and John himself admits...
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A remarkable program that reveals what it's like to suffer and then try to live with the most common hidden disability to affect young adults - traumatic brain injury. Exploring its devastating impact on lives, careers, and relationships, Charlie Elmore highlights how society treats young adults who are dealing with its wide-ranging and not always obvious symptoms. The winter sports instructor was injured in a snowboarding accident and, after being...
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In some cases, stroke is a life-threatening medical emergency that leaves the victim with permanent disability. But for many stroke patients, much can be done through quick medical attention, good rehabilitation, and community support. In this program, two stroke victims take us through their experiences and explain the affects stroke has had on their lives. We speak to experts, including Professor John Oliver, Director of Rehabilitation at Epworth...
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Dr. Joe Bresee, Chief, Epidemiology & Prevention Branch, CDC Influenza Division, recounts symptoms of seasonal flu, which match those of the H1N1 virus. Covers symptoms which signal the need for immediate, urgent medical care, and provides referrals to relevant CDC resources.
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In this program, Horizon investigates how we deal with mentally ill offenders. Experience has shown that prisoners who are mentally ill are by far the most likely to be incarcerated again after they are released. Are special hospitals established specifically to treat this type of prisoner really a soft option, or are they an absolute necessity? How do we choose to deal with dangerous psychopaths who require strict discipline and specially trained...
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Stroke is about sudden loss of function. Stroke intervention is about rescuing the brain-and, by extension, the mind and personality. This program brings viewers into the ER and the OR, the CT-scanning suite and the rehab room, of Calgary's Foothills Hospital with Dr. Alastair Buchan and his stroke treatment team as they fight the clock and the limits of medicine to save lives and preserve quality of life. As the cameras track a small group of male...
10) Be Brave
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Gynecologic cancer survivor Jenny Allen urges women to see a doctor if they have symptoms that last longer that two weeks. She explains how her symptoms led to a diagnosis of uterine and ovarian cancers and her treatment. A Production of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
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Stolen Faces examines the devastating experiences of acid attack victims in the cities of Phnom Penh and Delhi. Acid attack survivor, Kong Touch is adamant that survivors bring their perpetrators to justice even if it takes time. At age 15, Laxmi was brutally attacked by a 32-year-old man after she rejected his marriage proposal; she is now the face of a Campaign aimed at bringing acid violence to an end. Stolen Faces takes us inside the lives of...
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Corporations have long donated to charity, giving anonymously out of pure goodwill and sometimes giving to improve their image. But today, charities and business are part of each other's core strategies. This program explores the concepts of "strategic philanthropy" and "cause marketing" by examining the partnerships of three of the world's largest corporations with three of the largest charities. Walmart got a PR makeover by supplying stranded Katrina...
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This award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. It also debates whether deinstitutionalization has proved an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place of therapy and benign confinement. Rare archival footage,...
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A highly regarded expert on memory's malleability - and a lightning rod for controversy - Elizabeth Loftus has proved that people can become subject to false memory, with major implications for matters involving eyewitness testimony and repressed recollections. In this lecture, Loftus details her research on the malleability of memory. Topics include memory paradigms; memory distortion, as demonstrated by an incident involving Hillary Clinton; growing...
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Today's teens are more likely to abuse prescription and over-the-counter meds than illegal drugs like marijuana. This video explores the "pharming" phenomenon among young adults, who discuss their exposure to and knowledge of drugstore staples and other readily accessible chemical substances. Subjects covered include the date rape drugs GHB and Rohypnol, inhalant abuse, ecstasy/MDMA, steroid abuse, methamphetamine ("meth"), and dangerous drug impurities....
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This emotionally charged program filmed in Australia explores the ethics of whether, and in what circumstances, women and men with severe mental or physical disabilities should ever be sterilized. All parties involved desire a better quality of life for people who it is believed are incapable of fully comprehending and then acting on the issues for themselves. But is sterilization, performed in a person's perceived best interests, a humane or an inhuman...
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The issue of race within psychiatry is most apparent in the psychiatric hospitals and institutions where, as one doctor who appears in this program puts it, "there is an overrepresentation of black people. There is also a problem of misdiagnosis and mistreatment because some medical staff don't understand why people from different cultures behave contrary to their expectations and therefore consider their behavior dysfunctional. This program looks...
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People with disabilities are often regarded only in terms of what they can't do, not what they can. This program looks at a variety of individuals with different disabilities who not only participate in their work and community but thrive because they were given an opportunity. Numerous personal examples show the practical as well as psychological importance of employment. Social workers, special education teachers, employers, and those challenged...
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The popularity of ethical investing has grown over the past few decades, but when financial advisor Amy Domini started out in the industry, there wasn't much information about it available. Noting that most of her clients had lines they wouldn't cross, such as putting money into tobacco companies, she helped create the Domini 400 Social Index and wrote Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money. In this program, Domini shares...
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Asset manager Katherine Collins had a successful career with Fidelity when she decided to pursue a degree from Harvard Divinity School. Now the CEO of Honeybee Capital, she believes it is possible to combine ethics with financial trading, and that bypassing Wall Street in favor of Main Street is one way to do it. In this program, Collins and Hazel Henderson explore socially responsible investments, touching on deregulation, high-frequency trading,...