HIV/AIDS: Drug Therapy Side Effects and Complications
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, explains that the cocktails of drugs used to fight HIV/AIDS can be very effective, but can also be complicated to take properly and cause serious side effects. ...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
HIV/AIDS: Blood Supply Safety
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, talks about the strides that have been made in making sure the blood supply in the United States is safe in the wake of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Although there is...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
HIV/AIDS: As Awareness Grew
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, talks about the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States as it became clear that the blood supply was contaminated, and that the disease was not c...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Healthcare Equality
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about what he calls the "social obligation" to establish a healthcare system to which every American has equal access.
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Transcript: deal with by saying those Which are not essential for good health, those which aren't part Of a basic understanding of what health is, Are things which
Healthy Pregnancy
Dr. Ed McCabe, Chief of the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, talks about some of the things women can do to have a healthy pregnancy. He states that the incidence of neural tube defects could be reduced by 50 to 75% if pregnant women would take a...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Harm Avoidance (Part One)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about harm avoidance, which he explains is the opposite of novelty seeking. In the words of Dr. Hamer, people who are harm avoidant see the world,...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
HIV/AIDS: A Clinical Description
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, talks about the medical realities of HIV/AIDS, explaining the progression of the disease, as well as the symptoms (or lack of symptoms) at various stages along ...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
health officials in the developing nations of the world to adequately address the challenge of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Transcript: what's ready to hit them. Most public health officials don't really understand Or are not willing to understand. The same kinds of prejudices that we had
HIV/AIDS: A Smart Enemy
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, explains that one of the things that makes the HIV virus so difficult is that it's a retro virus, which means it has the ability to take its genetic material an...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Helping Families Cope
Dr. Ed McCabe, Chief of the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, talks about his role in helping families cope when they learn they are going to have a child with a genetic abnormality of some type. "My main job in those situations," Dr. McCabe expla...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health