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2) The C word
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cancer is not a laughing matter, but the archaic way people are beating it is. With a dose of good humor, heart, and a touch of rock'n'roll, this documentary reveals the forces that are keeping people sick and dares to ask: if up to 70% of cancer deaths are preventable, what are people waiting for?
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4 videodiscs (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Yoga instructor Peggy Cappy and neuromuscular therapist Lee Albert present effective exercise routines for relieving pain in in the back, knees, hips, and head (including chronic migraine headaches).
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive 80-minute production with a proactive, alternative take on the midlife years of women, addressing some of the issues that they will face, and providing a wealth of information and options that they will find most enlightening and helpful. Making the right lifestyle and healthcare decisions earlier, rather than later, can have great benefits.
6) Body brokers
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true and untold story of multi-billion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment fraud, where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires overnight as 'body brokers.'
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1 videodisc (77 min.): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Defining Hope is a documentary that weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. It is about optimism and helps us define what 'quality of life' really means. The film focuses on palliative care, end of life issues, and hospice care. It offers a hopeful message...
Series
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1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the United States, ten percent of people who wish to have children struggle with infertility. NOVA explores barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological, and the state of assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Depression: out of the Shadows tells the dramatic stories of people of different ages, from diverse backgrounds, who live with various forms of depression. Leading mental health experts highlight the latest scientific research and innovative treatments, offering greater understanding and hope for the millions of people living with this complex, but treatable, disease." From container.
10) Alive inside
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
11) The food cure
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six cancer patients make the decision to turn their backs on conventional medicine and put their faith in an alternative treatment based on food. Some dialogue is in French and German.
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hallucinogenic drugs, popularly called psychedelics, have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many of these mind-altering substances, both natural and synthetic, and discovering that they can have profoundly positive clinical impacts, helping patients struggling with a range of afflictions from addiction to depression and PTSD.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE....
14) Outbreak
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1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The vivid, inside story of how the Ebola outbreak began and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping accounts of victims from the slums of Monrovia to the jungles of Guinea, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
Series
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kym is a former model. Kym is in rehab. Kym's family is well heeled but extremely dysfunctional. Kym is responsible for a horrible tragedy that no one will talk about. Her sister, Rachel, is about to be married, and Kym is granted a leave to attend. Kym wants desperately to fit in, to be a normal person, but she doesn't know how. In her slouchy dark clothes, with a choppy, angular haircut, she seems programmed to shut everyone out. Kym, as...
16) Harvey
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. His sister is determined to marry her daughter off and decides to commit her brother to a mental hospital to get him out of the way. Due to a mix-up the sister is committed instead, and it is up to the kindly brother and his imaginary friend to straighten things out!
17) Baker's hawk
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young boy nurses an injured hawk back to health, he gains newfound courage and confidence.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 274 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-travelled reporter.
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"[T]he story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time."--Container.
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1 videodisc (1 hr. 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.
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