State of Minds: Poverty Pain Management Climate Change New Medicines - Fall 2009
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In this edition, UCTV’s premier magazine program features UC Berkeley students focused on alleviating poverty as part of UCB’s Global Poverty and Practice program, the fastest-growing minor on campus. From the UC Davis Medical Center, a look at how doctors at the Pain Management Clinic are teaching patients to cope with chronic pain without becoming addicted to drugs. Then, another angle on climate change – what UC scientists are discovering about its impact on human health. And finally, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, searching for exotic medicines in the tropics of Panama. Series: "State of Minds" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 17089]
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