Author: Pietwien

Louise Brown on growing up the first test tube baby – CBS News Watch CBS News In 1979, Louise Brown was the first child born through the use of in vitro fertilization, or IVF. In this web exclusive she talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about…

Savants: A sudden gift for painting – CBS News Watch CBS News For the last six years Ione Kuhner has gradually lost her grasp on much of daily life due to Early-onset Alzheimer’s. But amazingly she’s also started painting … something the former dental assistant…

Is LSD a wonder drug for mental health? – CBS News Watch CBS News Faith Salie reports on how LSD and “magic mushrooms” are being studied for their ability to help patients conquer anxiety and depression without the psychedelia long associated with mind-altering drugs. Salie…

Glenn Close: Changing minds about mental illness – CBS News Watch CBS News Actress Glenn Close has taken on a new role – hoping to help de-stigmatize mental illness. That’s because mental illness runs in her own family. (Her nephew, Calen, has schizophrenia; and her…

At risk: mothers and childbirth – CBS News Watch CBS News The United States is the only industrialized country where the rates of maternal deaths have increased, rather than decreased. And “near deaths” are on the rise: 60,000 a year across the country. Erin Moriarty…

Michael J. Fox on his fight against Parkinson’s – CBS News Watch CBS News Actor Michael J. Fox is known to millions for the “Back to the Future” films and the TV series “Family Ties” and “Spin City.” But for the past two decades it’s…

Michael J. Fox: Parkinson’s “sucks” – CBS News Watch CBS News The Emmy-winning actor talks with Jane Pauley about how, at age 29, he received his diagnosis of Parkinson’s, and how the Michael J. Fox Foundation has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and helped…