Episodes

  • You’re In the NIH Now
    Dec 17 2020

    A young mother with two desperately sick children arrives at the NIH in the winter of 1969, where she meets doctors doing a tour of duty at the public health service.

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    30 mins
  • The Beginning of the End of Heart Disease
    Dec 17 2020

    Dr. Joe Goldstein arrives at the bedside of young Valerie and Clark. He soon enlists his colleague, Dr. Michael Brown, to try to figure out why these kids have cholesterol levels likely to kill them before they reach adulthood.

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    32 mins
  • In Search Of…
    Dec 17 2020

    The story of the so-called “yellow berets” is largely forgotten until the NIH’s first historian and her young intern unearth some 3x5 index cards and make a major discovery of their own.

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    45 mins
  • A Call to Service
    Dec 17 2020

    A miraculous reunion, Nobel acclaim for Dr. Harold Varmus, Dr. Bob Lefkowitz and Dr. Stanley Prusiner. Plus, how this long-forgotten program still fuel breakthroughs--even in a pandemic--and saves lives.

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    41 mins