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The Medical Center Hour: Changing Virginia's Mental Health Laws: Before and After the Virginia Tech Tragedy1/30/08 - James Stewart, Commonwealth Inspector General of Mental Health, and Richard Bonnie,
Chair of the State Supreme Court's commission on mental health, discuss reforming Virginia's
mental health system. What's being proposed, and why? How will changes in state law serve patients,
their families, and the public?
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The Medical Center Hour: Food for Thought: Global and Local Strategies for Healthy Eating1/23/08 - This Medical Center Hour explores a new attentiveness to the foods we consume, with
emphasis both on foods themselves and on the social, environmental and cultural implications of our
eating preferences and patterns. |
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News Story: Clinical Test Held at U.Va. for LibiGel1/16/08 - Anita Clayton, professor of psychiatry, talks about the clinical trials currently being held for a drug designed to treat women who suffer from hypoactive sexual desire disorder. |
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The Medical Center Hour: What is Dead Anyway? Determining Death for Organ Transplantation11/14/07 - How do physicians determine a prospective donor has died? Determination of death by
neurologic criteria ("brain death") is legal and medically preferable, since optimal organ
perfusion can be maintained; but by all appearances a brain-dead donor on life support doesn't seem "dead." Understanding the history as well as the science can help with this challenging aspect of transplantation medicine. |
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Engaging the Mind: Violence as a Public Health Concern and the Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity/Race and Age 11/9/07 - Marcus L. Martin, Assistant Dean, School of Medicine and Associate Vice President for Diversity and Equity at the University of Virginia, discusses how violence should be treated as a public health issue. He also shares information on domestic violence, youth violence, suicide and homicide and sexual violence. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Do Nurses Work for Love, or for Money?11/7/07 - In contrast to medicine, in nursing philanthropic and altruistic ideals conflict with
professional self-determination, most evidently economically. Philanthropists and altruistic agents
seldom seek economic gain or even parity, but professionals, having devoted years to developing
expertise, expect to be paid well and recognized in other ways. What is the basis for nursing |
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More than the Score: Addictions: How Can a Habit Become an Addiction? 11/3/07 - How do we develop habits? How do habits become reinforced? Why do certain individuals eventually become addicted, either to chemicals or alcohol or to behaviors such as sex, gambling, shopping, or eating? Dr. Bankole Johnson of U.Va's Psychiatry Department discusses his work to understand how addictions develop. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Medicine in the Genomics Era10/31/07 - This keynote address for the annual Medical Student Research Symposium highlights
medical genomics research at the frontiers of science through examination of researcher Stephen
Rich's work on Type One diabetes. Dr. Rich's talk also offers glimpses of a life in science and
the scientist's commitment to the health of the public. |
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