Description: Castle Square Day Care Center in South End. 2 1/2 to 3 year old Asian and black children create with glue and colored paper. Interview with doctor on premenstrual syndrome diagnosis and treatment through lifestyle changes and progesterone injections. Explains symptomatic difference among PMS, dysmenorrhea, endometriosis.
Description: Gov. Dukakis signs Women, Infants and Children (WIC) bill at Boston City Hospital. Flanked by Chet Atkins, William Bulger, Bailus Walker, Philip Johnston, Manuel Carballo. Says it is imperative to address child malnutrition. Nurses & mothers holding infants.
Description: WGBH cafeteria. Petri dishes in lab culturing bacteria. Interview with Nancy Ridley on Mass. Restaurant Association and food safety, sanitation and hygiene practices in restaurants.
Description: Mass. Department of Health hearing on feasibility of establishing liver transplant programs. Dr. Harvey Feinberg explains mission of task force. Dr. Hendron, chief of surgery at Children's Hospital, encourages cooperative approach among institutions to procure organs. Charles Fiske, father of infant liver recipient Jamie, endorses program especially for pediatrics.