In Growing Up Trans FRONTLINE takes viewers on an intimate and eye-opening journey inside a new medical frontier — where it’s now possible for kids who feel they were born in the wrong body to never have to go through the puberty of their biological sex. Filmmakers Miri Navasky and Karen O’Connor met transgender children and their […]
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Big Pharma Calls for New Incentives to Fight “Superbugs”
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Hospital scientist Joanne Thambyah (L) inspects an unidentified culture (C) in the Microbiology Department of Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, 07 June 2004. A young man who died in the intensive care unit of the Royal Brisbane Hospital, in the northern state of Brisbane last year, has been identified as the first victim […]
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“Chasing Heroin,” A Two-Hour Special, Premieres Feb. 23 on FRONTLINE
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016FRONTLINE Investigates America’s Heroin Crisis in a Searing Two-Hour Special Chasing Heroin Premiering on PBS and online Tuesday, February 23, 2016, at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT pbs.org/frontline/chasing-heroin www.facebook.com/frontline | Twitter: @frontlinepbs #ChasingHeroin Instagram: @frontlinepbs | YouTube: youtube.com/frontline Tumblr: frontlinepbs.tumblr.com America’s heroin and opioid crisis has been called the worst drug epidemic in […]
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Last week, in advance of the premiere of Chasing Heroin, we asked the FRONTLINE audience to share their stories about heroin and opioid addiction. What role has it played in your life? And what do you wish people understood about the problem? Below are some of your responses. We’ll continue to update this page as […]
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Drug Czar: Treating Substance Abuse as a Crime is “Inhumane”
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016In 1988, Michael Botticelli woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed, injured, and under arrest for causing an accident while driving drunk on the Massachusetts Turnpike. A judge gave him two options: Seek care for his drinking problem, or go to jail. Today, 28 years later, Botticelli is not only sober, but helping to shape […]
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As a judge in Washington, D.C. in the ’80s and ’90s, Eric Holder says it didn’t take much to tell that the nation’s criminal justice system – especially when it came to low-level drug offenses – was “fundamentally unfair.” “I had these mandatory minimum sentences that I had to impose on people who had drug […]
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Xyzal (see Meclizine, Buclizine, and Cyclizine (Oral route, Parenteral route))
by explainingmedicine June 8, 2016Some of these preparations are available only with your doctor’s prescription. Others are available without a prescription; however, your doctor may have…
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Levocetirizine is an antihistamine used to relieve the symptoms of hay fever and hives of the skin. It works by preventing the…