1999 - 2000 Archive
Program #14
Last week, we looked at the risks of developing osteoarthritis, and the standard treatments used today. Osteoarthritis already affects more than three million Canadians, and it's expected to explode as baby boomers reach old age. This week, we take you right into research laboratories and operating rooms, where doctors are developing -- and in some cases, already using, cutting-edge treatments.
Most of us have a vague understanding of how drugs and therapies go from being "experimental" to becoming the standard treatment. First, they're tested on animals and then they're testing on humans. These are called clinical trials. But how do you get into a clinical trial...and just because the treatment is new, does that make it better? Dr. Ian Tannock, an oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital tells us more about clinical trials.
Second Opinion
If you developed cancer or diabetes, you wouldn't feel ashamed. And there'd be lots of support for you when you told people what you had. But in her Second Opinion, Karen Liberman says that's not the way it is for people with mental illness.
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