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Health Videos
Target
New Jersey
Target New Jersey
- AIDS: The Women Speak (1989)
1/2 hour
program - More and more, AIDS is a disease that infects women,
but for years only the male point of view on this disease was
heard. This documentary looks at AIDS from the point of view
of women, both those who have the disease and those who care
for victims of the disease. From mothers to foster parents,
from those new to the disease to those in its final stages,
the stories told are as different as the women involved.
Price: $19.95
Target New Jersey
- Dying to Make a Living (1992)
1/2 hour
program - Cancer strikes one in three Americans and in 1992
about 500,000 Americans died of cancer. Researchers disagree
about the extent to which cancer and the work place are related.
This program explores New Jersey's historical workplace-related
cancers and looks at what workers may be facing on the job
today. This episode also shows what companies are doing to
protect their workers from potential exposure, and to offer
early detection to their workers. Finally, the program looks
at cancer research to see what is being done to potentially
stop cancer from developing.
Price
$19.95
Target New Jersey
- The Living Map (1992)
1/2 hour
program - Inside every human is a map, a map that charts a
person's color, physical features, and the secret diseases
which can silently take over a person's life. That map is
DNA, the complex genetic fingerprint which recent events in
the American legal system have brought into the limelight.
This documentary looks at the science of DNA research, focusing
first on the process of research and then focusing on the
possibilities which may spring from the results of this research,
such as genetic manipulation of unborn children.
Price:
$19.95
Target New Jersey
- Lyme Disease: In Our Own Back Yard (1991)
1 hour
program - Lyme disease is an elusive and deceptive sickness.
Spread by deer ticks, it is a disease that can be contracted
year-round, and its symptoms resemble a variety of other diseases.
Target New Jersey examines Lyme disease, to better understand
the risks associated with this sickness, by looking at what
Lyme disease is and how it is treated.
Price:
$24.95
Target New Jersey
- Mission from the Heart (1991)
1 hour
program - In 1990, staff from the Deborah Heart and Lung Institute
of Philadelphia, Pa., traveled to the USSR, to Tbilisi, Georgia,
to bring their advanced knowledge to benefit children with
heart disease. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy, this documentary
focuses on the disparity between the medical fields in the
USSR and the USA, and follows the doctors from Deborah as
they travel to the Soviet Union on their mission of mercy.
Price:
$24.95
Target New Jersey
- Myths of Aging (1989)
1 hour
program - In this program, teenagers talk about their perceptions
of senior citizens and senior citizens talk about their perceptions
of teenagers. From their comments, it becomes clear that a
great misunderstanding exists between generations. How did
it happen? Target New Jersey tackles these questions by looking
at issues of longevity, physical activity and social participation.
Finally, the program brings teens and seniors together to
show how direct communication between the generations can
dispel many of the myths that have been created about aging.
Price:
$24.95
Target New Jersey
- Return to Tbilisi (1992)
1/2 hour
program - In 1990, a group of children from the Soviet State
of Georgia were the recipients of open heart surgery made
possible by the Deborah Heart and Lung Center. In the year
that followed, political turmoil erupted in the Soviet Union
and Georgia declared its independence. This documentary follows
doctors as they return to Tbilisi, Georgia, to examine the
patients from the previous year's operations. In the process,
they try to improve the practice of medicine in a country,
which is itself struggling to survive.
Price:
$19.95
Target New Jersey
Special - Community Crackdown (1991)
1 hour
program - James Earl Jones narrates this documentary on New
Jersey's attempts to crack down on the illegal drug trade
in the early 1990s. This program focuses on neighborhoods
and families in the Trenton area who are doing something about
the problem of drugs in their area. Looking specifically at
the individuals who have taken a stand against the dealers
and the addicts, this film also travels to the areas where
the drug trade and use occurs to show the lifestyle of the
drug addict. Part of the Target New Jersey series.
Price:
$19.95
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