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Your
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Program
3, October 2, 2001
Cardio
Rehabilitation
The first thing you’d do after you have a heart attack,
is count yourself lucky to be alive. Heart disease is still
the single-biggest killer of men and women in this country.
The good news is, more people are surviving their first
attack. But without some major changes, they're at risk
of having a second one. That’s where cardio rehabilitation
comes in.
Stem
Cell Research
Just because we can, should we? By now, most of us know what
stem cells are and that they have enormous potential, down
the road, to cure disease. But to harvest stem cells from
embryos, scientists have to, in essence, "kill"
the embryo. And that raises all kinds of moral and ethical
questions. Questions the federal government has yet to regulate.
We’ll have two medical ethicists in studio to debate
embryonic stem cell research.
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Next Week's Your Health
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October
9th
Acid
Indigestion
How many times do you find yourself reaching for an antacid
to get rid of that familiar burning sensation in your chest
and throat? Sales of over-the-counter heartburn medications
run up to a hundred million dollars a year in Canada. That's
alot of people self-medicating...people like Jerry Birnbaum.
He wishes he'd headed to the doctor instead of the drug
store.
Thalidomide
Returns
Even
the president of the pharmaceutical company that manufactures
thalidomide admits it caused more human suffering than any
other single drug. But thalidomide also has the potential
to reduce suffering, and prolong life, and that’s why
it’s been reborn. Thalidomide is involved in no fewer
than 100 clinical trials to treat everything from multiple
myeloma to Crohn’s disease. But because some early
test results are so promising, doctors are already using
it.
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Medicine
101
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The
Pain of a Heart Attack
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Health airs Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. on TVO,
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