Description: SHRINERS BURNS INSTITUTE PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING TEST TUBE SKIN DEVELOPMENT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/15/1984
Description: Profiles of five people who will make a difference in the 90s. 1) Nurse Connie Hagerty runs Boston City Hospital adult AIDS program. 2) Marco Kaltofen, lab director of National Toxics Campaign, identifies industrial polluters and seeks remediation and prosecution. 3) Tina Gaudette, advocate for homeless children at Crossroads Family Shelter. 4) Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald of Mission Hill, dedicated to serving his neighborhood. 5) Marshall Smith, founder of Paperback Booksmith and Videosmith.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/01/1990
Description: 1) Interview with Paul Doty and Uri Ra'anan on Soviet downing of KAL plane. 2) Brief on EPA declaring new hazardous waste sites eligible for Superfund cleanup, including Sullivan's Ledge Quarry in New Bedford contaminated with PCBs, and Iron Horse Park in Billerica for asbestos. 3) Brief on Boston police commissioner Joseph Jordan entering alcohol detox center in RI. 4) Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR or MRI) at Mass. General Hospital; file of spinal x-ray and CAT scan; patient being prepared to enter tube chamber; brain images; Bailus Walker, public health commissioner discusses relative merits and costs of the new technology for earlier diagnosis. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1983
Description: Rep. Robert Emmet Hayes says health care for all bill may not be affordable because business can not bear the payroll tax to support it. Hospital b-roll.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/02/1990
Description: Universal health care in jeopardy because funding once promised to hospitals has been rescinded from state budget. Montage of hospital file. Steven Pierce, Kenneth Lemanski, William Nagle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1989
Description: ELDERLY MAN GOING THROUGH PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AT VA HOSPITAL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1985
Description: Veteran Volunteer at VA Hospital; Tony Frasca, World War II vet. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1988
Description: Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989
Description: WALTHAM HOSPITAL EXTERIORS, AMBULANCE, SIGNS, NURSES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1984
Description: WIC program at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Nutrition counselling room. Chart of four food groups. Pamphlet in Vietnamese. Child's height being measured. Interview with program administrator on fluctuation in WIC funding.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/29/1983