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Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck. In three episodes, Mosley recounts how humans have learned to fight back against disease and death.
83) Orgasm Inc
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Explores the strange science of female pleasure and reveals the warped mentality of the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Director Liz Canner embarks on a nine-year odyssey as she follows the companies who are racing to be the first to win FDA approval for a product to cure 'female sexual dysfunction.' The prize: billions of dollars in profits. Featuring illuminating footage and interviews with activists, doctors, and medical experts.
84) Opioids, Inc
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The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50-100 times stronger than heroin.
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At the beginning of 2020, McCullough was a program director at a major academic medical center in Dallas, Texas. Searching for a treatment for the disease, he followed the longstanding principle that it is best to tackle a sickness early. McCullough and his colleagues developed an early treatment protocol-- which was not welcomed by public health officials. News of their promising results was dismissed; McCullough and his colleagues were attacked...
89) Dead on arrival
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A pharmaceutical sales rep visits a small town in Louisiana on business. He finds himself in a dark world of corruption and murder with only 24 hours to live, running from the police, the mob and a sheriff who wants him dead.
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. Peter Haskell is a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
91) Elixer
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"Paediatric oncologist Dr Frank Garfield has discovered a genetic cure for cancer that can save his young patients. But his mentor, Nobel Prize laureate Dr Jackson Atlas, believes his research is like blood in the water for profit-hungry drug companies that will twist and weaponize it. UNICO Pharmaceuticals CEO Leona Lang is desperate to find a new product, and Frank's formula could be the answer. But Jackson is an obstacle. Dalton Lang, Leona's sociopathic...
98) Active stealth
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The U.S. Army created the world's first completely undetectable air weapon when they built the deadly Active Stealth. But the Stealth becomes the free world's worst enemy when it is hijacked during a routine training flight and is put into use by the hijackers. The Army sends an Apache helicopter strike force into Central America to retrieve the Stealth, only to put them in the fight for their lives against the most well-equipped terrorist Air Force...
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