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Health Care Forecasts for 21st Century Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3366 Date: February 12, 2009 Two talks from prominent health care managers who address the future of medical care. From the Series:Health and Society

Like New: Dental Implants Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3600 Date: February 12, 2009 If you are missing one or more teeth and would like to smile, speak and eat again with comfort and confidence, Dr. Girod has good news: dental i...

Genomics and the Future of Medicine - Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3184 Date: February 12, 2009 The molecular understanding of disease has transformed the pharmaceutical industry. In the future, one can anticipate an increasing number of new ...

Improving Lab Utilization in Ambulatory Care: The Role of Physician Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3019 Date: February 12, 2009 In this University of Washington program, Dr. Kim Riddell of Group Health Cooperative discusses how to guide physicians toward choosing appropriat...

Drug-eluting Stents: Are They Safe? Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 5304 Date: February 12, 2009 Drug-eluting stents are metal mesh tubes coated with medication that keep artries from re-blocking after angioplasty. These devices have been the s...

Life Goes On...Breast Cancer Survivors Speak Out Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1154 Date: February 12, 2009 A positive program for all women of all ages; from the importance of screenings and early detection, to chemotherapy and life after breast cancer,...

Homeless and Poor in America: Implications for Health and Health Care Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 One in four Americans live in poverty and 2.5-3.3 million Americans spend the night in a homeless shelter every year.  Dr. Kim Hopp...

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison on "Exuberance, The Passion for Life" Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3320 Date: February 12, 2009 Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, speaks about her book "Exuberance, The Passion for Life" at a conference on...

Exploring Obesity: From the Depths of the Brain to the Far Pacific Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3510 Date: February 12, 2009 By studying the brains of obese mice, Dr. Friedman found that leptin rewires feeding circuits in the hypothalamus.  From an evolut...

Constrictive Pericarditis Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1729 Date: February 12, 2009 Patient case studies focusing on Constrictive Pericarditis. From the Series:Regional Heart Center Grand Rounds

Life Changing LASEK Procedure Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 116 Date: February 12, 2009 Brian Finrow started wearing glasses when he was 12. As an adult, he said, they got in the way of skiing – goggles over glasses? – and other activ...

HIV: In your Global Neighborhood Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 0 Date: February 12, 2009 Featured speaker King Holmes, director of the Center for AIDS and STD at the University of Washington, is joined by William Gates Sr. to discuss t...

Immunopathogenesis and Epidemiology of Malaria Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 0 Date: February 12, 2009 Malaria caused half a billion clinical illnesses and a million or more deaths in 2007. Measuring the burden of malaria is difficult because clinica...

Genomic Health Care Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3506 Date: February 12, 2009 Genetic testing already plays in important role in health care, providing the means to identify many rare inherited health problems. With the Huma...

Experience and Problems in Laboratory Medicine in Developing Countries Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3502 Date: February 12, 2009 Dr. Ladenson will present the lessons of 12 years experience of Pathologists Overseas in working to upgrade clinical laboratories and training in a...

Health Care and a Healthy Society - Part 1 Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 0 Date: February 12, 2009 Will changing our national health-care system provide health care for more people? Can any health care system make a population healthy? What is t...

Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1416 Date: February 12, 2009 Learn about the efforts of the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University to provide assistance to people with autism spectru...

Expedition Inspiration: A Journey to the Summit and Survival Sightings Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 2850 Date: February 12, 2009 This program features two presentations: the first by Vicki Boriak who tells about her mountain climbing experiences; the second is by Micki Voisar...

Donor Nephrectomy / Kidney Transplant Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3451 Date: February 12, 2009 Dr. Christian Kuhr presents information on laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, a surgical procedure to remove the kidney from a person willing to dona...

Imagery and Interpretation in International Medicine - Part 2 Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3205 Date: February 12, 2009 Learn how a large institution like Harborview Medical Center has overcome language barriers and learned to recognize cultural expressions of illnes...

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