Melissa Lee

An in-depth look at how a diabetes drug reinvented weight loss culture and the way we treat obesity in America.

This movie explores the story of the 6 teenage boys in Toronto on their quest to find the goodest of eats on their school lunch break. While all seems all golly and jolly, something deeper is lurking in the depths.

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services (NYCATS).

Dateline's coverage of the lawsuit by Patty Burgus and family against Bennett Braun, director of the Dissociative Disorder's Unit at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes in Chicago.  Oct 1998.  This is the story of the foundational works which constitute the current  theory of Dissociative Identity Disorder/ Multiple Personality Disorder.  This was the first Dissociative Disorder's Unit in the United States.  All subsequent units specializing in Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative Identity Disorders have been modeled after it.  After having his license suspended in Illinois, Dr. Braun has resumed practice in Butte, Montana.  Despite the malpractice payments paid by insurance on his behalf as well, Dr. Kluft remains in practice  and continues to give training lectures on the treatment of MPD/DID to large audiences of mental health practitioners.

One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric drug, including millions of children. Pharmaceutical companies have over-hyped the benefits of these drugs, while hiding the risks and severe side effects including physiological dependence. "Medicating Normal" explores what happens when for- profit medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

A short documentary film on the trials and triumphs of a young man's obesity journey.

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).  17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.

As millions of women and girls take shots and pills to stop their periods, the meaning of menstruation changes. Current marketing of hormonal birth control (Depo-Provera, Seasonale, Seasonique, Lybrel, Anya) attracts customers by promising freedom from monthly periods. For many consumers, menstrual suppression eliminates painful monthly flow, giving them more control in their lives. For others, menstrual suppression represents a frightening shift in thinking about the human body and another dangerous experiment on woman’s health. Period: The End of Menstruation? interrogates the cultural and medical side effects of suppression before 'the curse' disappears.