
From vaccines to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bio-terror threats to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the six-part series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge tells the compelling stories of global health challenges and successes. Employing both historical dramatic sequences and poignant current documentary stories, the series showcases key milestones in public health history, such as the eradication of smallpox, alongside modern and future challenges, including SARS, a potential global flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
Air Date: 2005-11-03
Before there was an understanding of infectious disease, few weapons were available to fight it. Disease Warriors chr...
Air Date: 2005-11-10
It's difficult to imagine a world without medicines — and yet, before the twentieth century there weren't any. The di...
Air Date: 2005-11-17
At the dawn of the 21st century, we can prevent, treat or cure most of the deadliest diseases known to humankind — an...
Air Date: 2005-11-24
Since the plague killed millions of Europeans in the Middle Ages, vector-borne diseases — those that rely on insects ...
Air Date: 2005-12-01
Ever since sailors noticed that scurvy could be prevented with citrus fruits, it has been clear that illness could be...
Air Date: 2005-12-08
During the past 100 years, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. In the last few decades, however...