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Making Our Way: Autism
Making Our Way: Autism is a documentary produced by MPBN that seeks to demystify autism, which is diagnosed in about one in every 110 children in America. Rather than focus on the limitations autism places on those who suffer from it, the program examines the broad spectrum of their experiences and looks at how many [...]
Posted in: Health, Science, Technology
Surviving a Car Crash
Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. A remarkable fusion of mechanical engineering and biology promises to save countless lives across the world. The programme has exclusive access to the secretive world of the most advanced car crash tests. Horizon reveals how the latest advances in trauma [...]
Posted in: Health, Nature
The Beautiful Truth
Garrett is a 15-year old boy living in the Alaskan wilderness with a menagerie of orphaned animals. Growing up close with nature has given him a deep understanding of nutritional needs required by diet sensitive animals on the reserve. Unfortunately, the untimely and tragic death of his mother propelled him into a downward spiral and [...]
Posted in: Health, Psychology
The Marketing of Madness
The Marketing of Madness is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit center. But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists’ diagnoses-and how safe are their drugs? Digging deep beneath [...]
Posted in: Health
Woke Up In A Morgue
Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of loss of muscle tone, often triggered by emotions. It is a rare disease, but affects roughly 70% of people who have narcolepsy. Cataplexy can also be present as a side effect of SSRI Discontinuation Syndrome. Cataplexy manifests itself as muscular weakness which may range from a barely [...]
Posted in: Drugs, Health
Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis
Montana PBS’s new documentary, Clearing the Smoke, reveals how cannabis acts on the brain and in the body to treat nausea, pain, epilepsy and potentially even cancer. Extensive interviews with patients, doctors, researchers and skeptics detail the promises and the limitations of medicinal cannabis. Even though the video has an American perspective, marijuana use is [...]
Posted in: Health
The Memory Loss Tapes
While there is hope for the future as science gains momentum, millions of people are currently affected by the painful and deadly consequences of Alzheimer’s. This verité documentary profiles seven people living with the disease, each in an advancing state of dementia, from its earliest detectable changes through death. “We wanted to capture a sense [...]
Posted in: Health, Society
A New Way To See Food
It’s the Food that Matters! In this documentary film we see how the food we eat makes us either healthy or sick.
Posted in: Health
Fast Food Baby
Documentary exploring the reasons why some parents feed their children junk food. The programme follows three families as they try to get back on the right nutritional track, and features experts who mentor them using the latest techniques in a bid to wean the youngsters off unhealthy meals
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