The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world’s leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. A doomsday scenario! Such outbreaks happen two or three times every hundred years. We are due one now—and the avian flu strain H5N1 is the most likely candidate for a future pandemic. The last catastrophic flu...

Only 15 of every 100 people diagnosed with lung cancer will be a long-term survivor, but there are many in the healthcare industry who are looking to change those daunting statistics. This program, produced in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, explores new treatments that can make a difference as well as steps to help prevent this deadly disease. Join our experts from Rush University Medical Center, Indiana University, and Holy Name...

When breast cancer is diagnosed, there are many treatment options to consider. It's important for a patient to take time to consider what the best course of action is. In Part 3, learn what the options are.

Part 1 looks at the substantial number of lives that can be saved through simple screening and cancer awareness. The program features interviews from expert physicians from Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the University of San Francisco, and the Jay Monahan Gastroenterological Center at the Weill Medical College. Learn more about how to prevent colon cancer and what you can do if you are diagnosed with it.

Robotic surgery is transforming modern medicine. Large movements of the surgeons hands in the operating theater translate into very small movements of the robotic instruments. It is less tiring for the surgeons and for the patient, it means less scarring, a quicker recovery, and reduced risk of infection. It is cutting edge medicine. Robotic arms – including a powerful camera – are slid into the patient through small incisions. At the end of the...

More than a third of us will get cancer in our lifetime and a quarter of us will die from it; it is Canada's number one killer. Extensive research, guided by experts and improved technologies, has significantly increased our understanding of cancer and how it works over the past ten years. This film looks at the principal theories and hypotheses that are revolutionizing our knowledge of this disease. We meet Guy, Agathe, Claude and Denis, four patients...

In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than...

Scientists have discovered that patients without a functioning CCR5 gene show a significantly better recovery from stroke. They have connected this to an HIV treatment that blocks CCR5 in AIDS patients, which slows the progression of the disease. They hope that this might prove to be the first ever treatment to help stroke patients recover better.

"The moment your family doctor tell you that, "You might have prostate cancer," your first thought is "Am I going to die?" Then your life is immediately turned upside down. You must understand new world of strange words, tests, procedures and, worst of all, major changes to your body. "The Prostate Cancer Owner's Manual" details it all, and helps you, hopefully, get through this life-changing challenge that will take years to accomplish"--

PBS NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," a history of the search for ways to treat cancer and how it has been perceived.