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28:54 About Blood: Sickle Cell Disease WVIZPBS 11 views 4 days ago This half-hour television documentary explores how blood works in the body with a focus on sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease that affects red blood cells and is most co...
8:32 About Blood: Barriers and Conclusion (4 of 4) WVIZPBS 33 views 2 weeks ago Explore problems with funding and the system to deliver care for young adults with sickle cell anemia and learn why Arthur Brown calls the disease both a curse and a gift. ...
6:31 About Blood: Treatment and Arthur Brown's Struggles (3 of 4) WVIZPBS 29 views 2 weeks ago Learn what's been done to help more babies survive into adulthood and to lessen symptoms such as pain attacks and strokes. Witness how Arthur Brown faced more than one brus...
6:36 About Blood: Genetics and Growing Up with Sickle Cell Anemia (2 of 4) WVIZPBS 21 views 2 weeks ago This segment explains the genetic abnormality in sickle cell anemia as a product of evolution to help protect people against malaria. It lets couples know the importance of...
6:57 About Blood: Introduction to Arthur Brown and Sickle Cell Anemia (1 of 4) WVIZPBS 45 views 2 weeks ago Meet 25-year old Arthur Brown, explore the anatomy of blood, and learn what causes sickle cell anemia. More in ideastream's "About Blood" coverage is available at http://w...
28:29 Surviving Stroke WVIZPBS 139 views 3 months ago A stroke occurs every 40 seconds in America. They range from barely noticeable to massive and deadly. Every four minutes someone dies from stroke and it stands as the leadi...
29:16 LifeGiving: Transplant Stories WVIZPBS 81 views 3 months ago At any one time, over 100,000 people across the country are waiting for life-saving organ transplants. On average each day, 18 of them die. Every 10 minutes another person ...
29:02 Body in Pain WVIZPBS 737 views 4 months ago Pain is the most common reason people go to the doctor. Everyone feels pain. When you stub your toe that is called acute pain. But when pain lingers it can become chronic. ...
6:16 Body in Pain: Good & Bad of Drug Therapy (3 of 3) WVIZPBS 37 views 4 months ago Host Kay Colby; Kutaiba Tabbaa, MD; and Jeffrey Janata, PhD, discuss the benefits and risks of using opioid drugs to manage chronic pain. More in our "Body in Pain" covera...
14:07 Body in Pain: Treatment (2 of 3) WVIZPBS 36 views 4 months ago Presents panel discussion between host Kay Colby and two doctors who help define chronic pain. This segment also details the treatments of our three profile patients conclu...

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WVIZ/PBS signed on the air as the 100th noncommercial educational television station in the United States on February 7, 1965. The station, located at the Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare in downtown Cleveland, is licensed to ideastream. WVIZ/PBS serves a 17-county Northeast Ohio market, which includes the metropolitan areas of Cleveland and Akron.