Description: Film transfer of CAT scan explainer. CT (computed tomography) scans being done on patients to diagnose tumors and blockages. “Produced in the public interest by Technicare Corporation and its subsidiary Ohio-Nuclear, Inc. Filmed by Vebo Productions, Inc. Chicago.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1977
Description: COASTAL COUNSELING STAFF CONCERNED FOR PATIENTS DURING CENTER'S FINANCIAL CRISIS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1987
Description: In Canada, health care is available to all, regardless of means or employment status. Explanation of mechanisms from practitioners, administrators. emergency room.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1987
Description: Advantages of Canadian national health care system and weaknesses of American system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/09/1987
Description: Problems with Canadian health care system: long lines, lagging in medical technology. Some perceived impediments ($$$) in converting US physicians to national health system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/10/1987
Description: Silent footage of a woman being treated for cancer in a large machine.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970
Description: Silber, Murphy, Bellotti speak at Middlesex News forum on elder issues. They rehash Silber's remark on rationing health care for the elderly. Audience of senior citizens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/27/1990
Description: Photos of Chad Green with his parents Jerry and Diana. He had leukemia and parents wanted him to be treated with laetrile in Mexico rather than the court ordered conventional chemotherapy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1979
Description: On fifth anniversary of Chernobyl explosion, commemoration brings attention to grave illnesses caused by radiation+spreading contamination. Little boy from evacuation zone being treated in Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1991
Description: Emerson Hospital switches from disposable to reusable cloth diapers. Crying baby is changed. Newborns in nursery. Piles of laundered diapers at Dydee Service.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1990