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The medical director of the Complex Adolescent Problem Program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, answers questions from teens with chronic illnesses or disabilities about family relationships, medical issues, dating, school and work, sexuality, recreation, alcohol, medications, and other topics.

Presents the ABCs of asthma, using the individual letters of the alphabet to explain twenty-six aspects of the disease.

Examines the skeletal and muscular systems, explaining how they work together to allow movement in the human body, looks at the joints of the body, and discusses diseases and disorders of the musculoskeletal system, as well as advances in the field.

Examines Tay-Sachs disease, explaining what it is, how it is inherited, treatment of symptoms, and screening and prevention.

Examines Huntington's disease, explaining what it is, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and efforts to find a cure for the genetic disease.

Examines hemophilia, explaining what it is, its history, symptoms, treatment, and research into better ways of treating and possibly curing the genetic disease.

Examines cystic fibrosis, explaining what it is, treatment for symptoms, advances in research, and how gene therapy may be used to cure the genetic disease.