Children and Violence (Part One)
Dr. Astrid Heger, Director of the Violence Intervention Program at L.A. County-USC Medical Center, talks about the types of cases her program deals with involving violence against children, and how the program seeks to provide these children with an...
Depression and Medication (Part One)
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, explains that it often takes time for a patient to realize he or she is doing better after beginning medication. "Commonly, the first things to improve are symptoms, such as sleep anxiety (a...
Counseling, Genetics, and Risk
Dr. Ed McCabe, Chief of the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, talks about the different ways people react when they learn that their unborn child is at risk for severe malformation or mental retardation. Dr. McCabe adds that he is careful in such ...
Depression or Anxiety?
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about the overlap between anxiety and depression, noting that, "...it's hard to know where one ends and the other begins."
DNA Similarities
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, explains that "...all of us humans have pretty much the same DNA. In fact, my DNA and your DNA and somebody else's DNA is 99.9% the same." In fact, Dr. ...
Speaking for the Voiceless
Dr. Astrid Heger, Director of the Violence Intervention Program at L.A. County-USC Medical Center, talks about the dual frustrations of having to deal with an often unresponsive federal bureaucracy, as well as the attitudes and beliefs of those who ...
Who Decides? (Part One)
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about how much doctors should share with patients, and how physicians and patients can best work together to make decisions about treatment. He also explores the issue of who decides (and on what basis...