Under the Knife Abroad
In “Under the Knife Abroad,” Adam Yamaguchi travels to India, Mexico and Barbados to investigate one industry flourishing in these tough economic times: medical tourism. watch video
Topic: Public health
Under the Knife Abroad: ‘Vanguard’ Trailer
In “Under the Knife Abroad,” “Vanguard” correspondent Adam Yamaguchi travels to India, Mexico and Barbados to investigate one industry flourishing in these tough economic times: medical tourism. watch video
Outsourcing surgery to India
In this scene from “Under the Knife Abroad,” “Vanguard” correspondent Adam Yamaguchi travels to a hospital in Chennai, India, where he will meet up with Kenny, from Texas, who has decided that a more affordable hip surgery there is worth [...] watch video
Stuck in America’s health care system: ‘It feels like I’m being violated’
In this scene from “Under the Knife Abroad,” “Vanguard” correspondent Adam Yamaguchi talks with Lisa Long, a former surgical technician whose near-fatal car accident has put her more than a million dollars in medical debt. watch video
Recovery High
Northshore Recovery High is a school outside Boston that is dedicated solely to students dealing with drug and alcohol addiction. watch video
What big tobacco really says about smoking: Scenes from ‘Vanguard’
In this scene from “Sex, Lies & Cigarettes,” correspondent Christof Putzel goes undercover at the World Tobacco Asia 2010 exhibition, a trade conference for tobacco vendors and marketers, to get an unvarnished take on efforts to increase smoking in the [...] watch video
Smoking Baby now says ‘Don’t smoke’: Scenes from ‘Vanguard’
In this scene from “Sex, Lies & Cigarettes,” correspondent Christof Putzel goes to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia to find the infamous “Smoking Baby” — Aldi, now a 2-year-old ex-smoker. watch video
Cigarettes sold like candy in Indonesia: Scenes from ‘Vanguard’
In this scene from “Sex, Lies & Cigarettes,” correspondent Christof Putzel meets Indonesian activists who are challenging the pervasive marketing of smoking — the kind of advertisements long banned in the U.S. watch video
Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Trailer
“Sex, Lies and Cigarettes” charts Big Tobacco’s attempt to expand its reach into Indonesia, which by all accounts has become the “Wild West” of cigarette marketing and promotion. watch video
Sex, Lies and Cigarettes
The Smoking Baby – the 2-year old who became a global YouTube sensation in the summer of 2010, has unwittingly become the posterchild and symptom of a Big Tobacco-sponsored battle being waged in developing markets. watch video
