Description: Red Cross / Huntington Ave Blood Bank, blood freezing, cryo blood process.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1982
Description: Northeast Regional Red Cross Blood Program Center building in rain. Inside lab technicians process blood and components in rotating coiled tubes. Numbered vials of blood in racks. Lab worker peers into microscope. Centrifuge spins and slows to stop. Technician with gloved hands draws plasma from test tubes. Typed units (A positive, B negative, etc.) in plastic packs on refrigerated shelves. Units packed in carton marked "Rush Human Blood" lined with styrofoam and covered with ice bag for shipping to University Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1979
Description: Sufferers of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) describe symptoms of extreme pain, their experiences of misdiagnosis and limitations on their activities. Patients being treated. Female doctor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/13/1990
Description: Reye's Syndrome, Reading, MA. Footage shot 7/2/1982.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982
Description: Reye's Syndrome, aspirin, drugs, drugstores, Tylenol; Jerry Haller interview at Tufts New England Medical Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982
Description: Reye's Syndrome, drug store "stuff".
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/07/1982
Description: In right to die decision, Supreme Court prevents Cruzan family from ending daughter's vegetative state. Medical ethicists and Rep. Richard Voke encourage making living will and durable power of attorney.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/25/1990
Description: Controversial drug Ritalin is commonly prescribed for young children with "attention deficit disorder" (hyperactivity) so they can learn in school. 50% response rate; side effects, withdrawal.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/09/1988
Description: Rubie Rogers interview, Mental Health, Hallucinogenic Drugs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982
Description: PHYSICAL THERAPIST AND CHILD GO THROUGH ROUTINE AT SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/16/1985