South Africa has created a Sesame Street character with HIV in order to provide age-appropriate, entertaining health education for children.

The relatively new phenomenon of releasing President George W. Bush's medical records to the public also serves the purpose of boosting his political image.

The media helps shape the general public's perception of the American Medical Association as the emblem of organized medicine.

The Domenici Wellstone Equitable Treatment Act sought to increase access to mental health care services and improve the efficiency and fairness of insurance coverage for mental illness.

Contemporary medicine has been the subject of many televisions shows. Whether intensely dramatic or humorous and comical, each gives the public a small piece of the picture of American medicine today.

A newspaper reporter who was a live organ donor for his childhood friend relates the impact first-hand reporting of the experience had on his life as well as the public.

Film, television, radio, and other media fail to accurately portray the diversity among health care professionals and the patients they treat.

Vignettes of three real patients who face end-of-life decisions, excerpted from a four-part television series on PBS.