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Riz Khan - Breaking the siege on Gaza - Jan7 09 - Part 1

2009-01-08T00:58:11Z

On Wednesday Riz speaks with two politicians who had been concerned about the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Strip long before the current war.

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Riz Khan - Breaking the siege on Gaza - Jan7 09 - Part 2

2009-01-08T00:58:12Z

On Wednesday Riz speaks with two politicians who had been concerned about the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Strip long before the current war.

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Doctors held up at Gaza border in Egypt - 06 Jan 09

2009-01-06T12:59:48Z

Amid a humanitarian crisis and a shortage of medical supplies hampering attempts to treat the thousands wounded, doctors are lining up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border.

They're waiting to cross into Gaza to help Palestinian medical teams. But Egyptian authorities are not letting them through.

From Rafah, Al-Jazeera's Rawya Rageh reports now on the tough task of getting into Gaza.

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Waiting to treat Gaza's wounded - 05 Jan 08

2009-01-08T00:58:16Z

At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, medical teams are lining up to help the injured and suffering in Gaza. While some of the people hurt in the fighting are being allowed out of Gaza for treatment, many of the doctors are still not being allowed in, as Al-Jazeera's Rawya Regeh reports.

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fire-madrone

2009-01-08T00:18:46Z

San Diego-fire-madrone-kaymar-old footage 12-25-2005

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Americans Send Mixed Signals About Healthcare

2009-01-08T00:44:41Z

Americans do not give a clear-cut mandate on healthcare, with 49% preferring to maintain the current system, and 41% preferring a new government-run system.

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Access to Care Most Urgent Health Issue for Americans

2009-01-08T00:44:41Z

For the second straight year, Americans see access to medical care as the most urgent health problem facing the country, easily outranking some of the preeminent concerns from earlier this decade.

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Ethics, Genetic Engineering and Children - Arthur Caplan

2009-01-06T00:48:09Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Arthur Caplan, Director of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses ethical issues concerning genetic engineering and genetically handicapped children.

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Arthur Caplan discusses Is it Immoral to Want to Live Longer, Be Smarter and Look Better? The Ethics of Using Biomedicine to Enhance Ourselves and Our Children as a part of The Ethical Frontiers of Science during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.

Arthur Caplan serves as the Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

He is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. His most recent book is Smart Mice Not So Smart People (2006).

He has served on a number of national and international committees, including as the chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; the chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; the chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability; the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy; the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy; and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.

Dr. Caplan writes a regular column on bioethics for MSNBC.com, and he is a frequent guest and commentator on various media outlets. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association; Person of the Year-2001 from USA Today, one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine; and one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal.

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Stem cells used in organ surgery - 20 November 2008

2008-11-24T08:56:47Z

European doctors have successfully given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.

The ground-breaking procedure could revolutionise how doctors carry out organ transplants in the future. Al Jazeera's Fergal Parkinson finds out more.

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Sick & Broke: Elizabeth Edwards on Health Care Policy

2009-01-08T00:43:17Z

During this historic election year, health care is a focal point of the national debate. Elizabeth Edwards, author and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, examines the current health care system, offer her suggestions for reform, and discuss the role young people can have in one of America’s top domestic priorities. The discussion was moderated by Ezra Klein, Associate Editor at The American Prospect.

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Health - Vote Smarter (Obama vs. McCain)

2009-01-08T00:27:59Z

www.votesmarter2008.com
The two senators release their medical records to the public.

Part of the "Vote Smarter" commercial series. See the other 10 and more information on each issue covered at www.votesmarter2008.com .

Written and directed by Lena Khan.

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30 Days | 30 Reasons : Medical Marijuana (#9)

2008-10-26T14:00:40Z

For some people, it's a matter of life or death.

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Meet the Bloggers: Charles Karel Bouley on McCain

2009-01-08T00:47:37Z

Charles Karel Bouley discusses McCain giving America the run around on releasing his medical records.

"Stop all the talk and do something!"

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Hope for Healthcare

2008-10-26T15:02:11Z

Hear how Barack Obama's healthcare plans will impact the lives of ordinary Americans like you.

(Music by Great Life Music)

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McCain Care Leaves Seniors Behind

2009-01-08T00:59:06Z

With Americas economy in crisis, unemployment rates skyrocketing, home foreclosures still building and retirement savings dropping faster than Wall Street CEOs can squander $700 billion, the last thing seniors need is to have their health care safety net put in jeopardy.

John McCain is trying to pull the old Washington bait and switch, promise voters tax credits to pay for health care before the election while hiding the massive tax increases and budget cuts he would have to push through to get it done.

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Craig Venter Denounces Race-Based Science Research

2008-11-03T10:42:56Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Geneticist J. Craig Venter denounces racially-based science and medical research, arguing that humans are too genetically similar for any major differentiation to have evolved among races.

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The man who mapped the human genome has a new focus: using microbes to create alternative fuels. Craig Venter, maverick biologist, wants to cure our addiction to oil. To do so, he proposes creating a designer microbe -- the heart of a biological engine -- from scratch, then adding genes culled from the sea to turn crops such as switch grass and cornstalks into ethanol.

This could prompt a major shift in the economics of the energy industry and in the process bring Venter to a secondary goal: showing the world he can be as successful as he was at sequencing human DNA.  Venter, a former Vietnam medic, brought about a paradigm shift in genomic sequencing that has entered him in the mythology of science.

He wanted to play God, so he cracked the human genome. Now he wants to play Darwin and collect the DNA of everything on the planet. Venter has graced the covers of Time and BusinessWeek - The Oxonian Society

J. Craig Venter, PH.D. is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research and is one of the country'’s most frequently cited scientists. He is Founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, not-for-profit research and support organizations dedicated to human genomic research, exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and alternative energy solutions through microbial sources. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).

Dr. Venter's autobiography A Life Decoded was published in October of 2007.

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Meet the Bloggers with Dr. Richard Sagebiel

2009-01-08T00:59:06Z

Live every Friday at 1pm ET: meetthebloggers.org

Over 2,750 doctors have signed Brave New PAC's open letter urging McCain to provide full, public disclosure of his medical records. And yet the corporate press has gone to great lengths to prevent the public from discussing this issue. This week special guest Dr. Richard Sagebiel leads the call for full disclosure and transparency from McCain on his health history. Dr. Richard Sagebiel is a pathologist in dermatology and co-director of the UCSF Melanoma Clinic.

Joining Dr. Sagebiel is bloggers Cheryl Contee (Jack & Jill Politics), Charles Karel Bouley (The Huffington Post), and Ari Melber (The Nation), who discuss about how Brave New PAC's ad on McCain's medical records has been censored by the corporate press and attacked by right-wing shock jocks like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

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Understanding McCain's Health Care Plan

2008-10-30T11:01:34Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Daniel P. Kessler, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and a health advisor to the John McCain 2008 Presidential campaign, summarizes McCain's plans for health care reform.

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Health care is a major issue in the current presidential campaign. Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have laid out very different visions, and each believes his plan is best for our nation's citizenry.

Come learn about each plan from the top policy advisors of each candidate, and take the opportunity to ask your own questions and get answers - The Commonwealth Club of California

Daniel Kessler is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In addition to his Hoover appointment, he is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on economics, public policy, and the health care industry. Among his recent publications are, with Mark McClellan, The Effect of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity, forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics, and Designing Hospital Antitrust Policy to Promote Social Welfare, which appeared in Frontiers in Health Policy Research. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

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Understanding Obama's Health Care Plan

2008-10-30T00:54:26Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

E. Richard Brown, founder and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a health advisor to the Barack Obama 2008 Presidential campaign, summarizes Obama's plans for health care reform.

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Come learn about each plan from the top policy advisors of each candidate, and take the opportunity to ask your own questions and get answers - The Commonwealth Club of California

Dr. E. Richard Brown is a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and the founder and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. He received his PhD in sociology of education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Brown has studied and written extensively about a broad range of issues and policies that affect the access of disadvantaged populations to health care. His recent research focuses on health insurance coverage, the lack of coverage, and the effects of public policies, managed care, and market conditions on access to health services, particularly for disadvantaged populations, ethnic minorities, and immigrants. Dr. Brown and the Center's studies of health insurance coverage, uninsurance, and eligibility for public programs have been used by California's governors, legislators, and advocates in crafting health insurance legislation and programs.

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Obama Up by 5, Economic Mood Mostly Unchanged

2008-12-15T08:51:29Z

The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows Barack Obama continues to lead John McCain, 48% to 43%, and economic negativity remains high.

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Health Challenges Lower-Income Families Face

2008-12-15T08:51:29Z

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index documents the relationship between income and health, profiling a lower-income family struggling with health problems without having access to quality medical care.

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Illinois Cannabis Patient Lucie

2008-11-01T03:32:21Z

Lucie was born with Neurofibromatosis that attacked her spine. She lives with constant pain. Using medical cannabis allows her to scale back the very dangerous and addictive narcotics.

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton Discuss Women's Issues

2008-10-31T03:29:35Z

As part of the Obama campaigns Women for the Change We Need Week of Action, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton got together for a conversation with women on the issues that are most important to them.

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Fighting America's Obesity Epidemic - Thomas Frieden

2008-11-01T03:31:10Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

New York City Commissioner of Health Thomas R. Frieden outlines his goals for reducing America's obesity epidemic.

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Thomas R. Frieden, the commissioner of the
New York City Dept. of Health discusses the structure of the U.S. Health Care System and interventions that can be taken to prevent important health issues like tobacco use and obesity.

Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, has served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since January 2002. Dr. Frieden has worked as an epidemiologist, administrator, teacher, researcher, clinician, and community organizer. His top priorities are to strengthen systems to accurately monitor the health of New Yorkers and to use this information to work with communities to improve their health.

A graduate of Oberlin College, Dr. Frieden received degrees in Medicine and Public Health from Columbia University. He completed specialty training in Internal Medicine at Columbia and subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at Yale University.

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PHARMACUTICAL FOLLIES - TV DRUG AD SIDE EFFECTS MONTAGE

2009-01-05T02:30:51Z

As the HMO ad says THRIVE...OR ELSE!
They lost me at anal leakage.
The illness may not hurt you but the side effects of the cure are a killer.

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