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Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely examination of the relationship between the medical community, city powerbrokers and the Chinese-American community, Plague at the Golden Gate tells the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly plague.
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PHIL is an extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health. Much of the information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists,...
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If helping without harming is the aim of medicine, then why are tens of thousands of North Americans dying every year due to medical error? This program seeks to answer that urgent question through two case studies and an in-depth examination of a groundbreaking inquest involving Dr. Jonah Odim. Measures to improve patient safety are also presented. Commentary by Donald Berwick, professor of pediatrics and healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School,...
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Whether they are needed to ensure properly dispensed prescriptions, monitor a patient's recovery, or make an urgently needed diagnosis, accurate health records are crucial to a patient's safety. This program highlights the important work of health information technicians and shows how electronic health records can help make medical care both safer and more efficient. In-depth commentary on medical information technology and its challenges comes from...
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Research shows that patients who take a proactive attitude toward even the simplest of medical procedures can greatly reduce the risks of a hospital stay. This program explores that idea in detail, illustrating ways for hospitalized individuals-regardless of their background or education level-to monitor what is happening to them and make sure all appropriate safety measures have been taken. Viewers will learn how to maintain basic awareness when...
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The U.S. spends twice as much per person on health care as the average industrialized nation, yet its outcomes are often worse. The reason? The U.S. is the only developed country that has turned medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit enterprise. Inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, this program offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's
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NewsHour's Ray Suarez talks to Dr. Diane Havlir, U.S. co-chair of AIDS 2012 and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Joseph Elias, Global Village coordinator, about the AIDS Conference held in Washington D.C. and how the gathering hopes they can "begin to end the AIDS epidemic." Origina?
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The untold story of Britain's worst foetal poisoning scandal since thalidomide, when a group of ordinary mothers took on the establishment and won. Set in a post-industrial Northamptonshire town, the Corby Litigation Case was a landmark case with worldwide legal and medical ramifications - the first time ever that a court has recognised a link between airborne toxins and foetal development damage. At the heart of the story is a group of young mothers...
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The rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is globally recognised as one of the greatest potential threats to human health. No new class of antibiotic has been found since 1987, and in February 2017, the UN’s World Health Organisation released its first ever list of the World’s Most Dangerous Superbugs, saying, “Within a generation, without new antibiotics, deaths from drug-resistant infection could reach 10 million a year. Without new medicines...
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"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases...