Parola chiave Public Health

L'armeno Kolack, arrivato clandestinamente a New Orleans, viene ucciso durante la notte da tre malviventi ai quali ha vinto del denaro al gioco. L'autopsia del cadavere rivela che l'uomo era affetto da peste. Le autorità, terrorizzate dalla paura dell'epidemia, danno alla polizia e all'ufficio sanitario l'incarico di rintracciare le persone che hanno avuto contatto con l'ucciso per metterle in quarantena. Ma le ricerche si presentano subito molto difficili...

Quando la studentessa di dottorato di Harvard Jennifer Brea viene colpita a 28 anni da una febbre che la lascia costretta a letto, i medici le dicono che è "tutto nella sua testa". Determinata a vivere, intraprende un viaggio virtuale per documentare la sua storia - e le storie di altre quattro famiglie - di combattere una malattia dimenticata dalla medicina.

The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.

Join visionary philanthropist Bill Gates as he delves into pressing global issues and uncovers cutting-edge technologies that will transform the world.

A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing.

n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.

An elite team of medical experts of the National Institutes of Health investigates unusual public-health crises, such as sudden outbreaks of serious and mysterious diseases.

Public Health is so much more than just washing your hands, adhering to smoking laws, or wearing your seatbelt -- although it is those things too. Broadly, public health is an approach to preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health for everyone. So over the course of this series, we'll show you the many ways the story of your health isn’t just about you, and how it’s about so much other stuff like the social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact all of us.

Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.