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Follows the progress of Dr Paul Zamecnick to treat disease and avoid damaging side effects by using DNA itself as a drug to block disease at its genetic base. Examines the long struggle against intense...
Examines the issue of the use of animals in medical research from both scientific and moral perspectives. Includes interviews with patients, a medical researcher, a family doctor and animal carers at work.
In 1969 research trials involving psychedelic drugs were banned following the Charles Manson killings, curtailing work in psychiatry relating alcohol and drug addiction treatment, schizophrenia and human...
Looks at experiments on animals, with special reference to promate research. Follows the lengthy undercover investigation by the National Anti-Vivisection Socity Special Investigation Department into animal...
1: [For synopsis see unter title PATTERNS IN THE DUST.] 2: Follows the theme of links between technology and health to air pollution. Shows how petrol and diesel engines in town are responsible for...
Looks at the international trade in primates for research, highlighting the responsibility of airlines in carrying these animals. Undercover footage shows the poor conditions in European laboratories for...
Examines cheating in scientific research - why scientists are tempted to cheat and how they get away with it. Those who try to expose cheating colleagues risk retribution from a close-knit scientific...
Investigates research carried out on women in Third World coutries using the implanted contraceptive Norplant. Presents testimony from women in the slums and villages of Bangladesh and Haiti, examines the...
A drama-documentary based on a true story of medical research in the 1960s in Britain. Esme Hadfield, a newly appointed GP, noted an unusually large concentration of a rare adenoidal cancer in her patients....
Follows a year in the work of three American scientists, Dr Paul Marks, Dr Richard Rifkind, and Professor Ronald Breslow, who are developing a new treatment for cancer - hexamethylene bisacetamide or HMBA, a...
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