Wednesday, March 29, 9-11pm
Explore how medical researchers, physicians, cost-conscious insurance companies and medical schools are changing the way medicine is practiced in America.

This follow-up to the HEALING AND THE MIND looks at extraordinary changes taking place in the field of "integrative medicine." When HEALING AND THE MIND aired in 1993, "mind-body medicine" and alternative therapies - from acupuncture to visualization to meditation - were on the fringes of the U.S. health-care system. Today the field is exploding, fueled by a growing body of hard research data and consumer demand, and led by pioneering doctors who understand the mind-body connection and the need to treat the whole person, not just the illness. This program explores how medical researchers, physicians, cost-conscious insurance companies and medical schools are changing the way medicine is practiced in America. Host Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve and herself a cancer patient, speaks eloquently about her belief in the healing power of "the new medicine."

Hosting THE NEW MEDICINE was one of the last projects that Dana Reeve undertook before she died of lung cancer. THE NEW MEDICINE aired in memoriam to Reeve.