Strong Medicine Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Strong Medicine: Season 6 (2005 - 2006)

• Season 6 Episode 22: Special Delivery

  After Jonas's company is finally cleared of all charges, he decides it is time he and the pregnant Lu move house, but while showing her his childhood home, he is forced to do something completely unexpected

• Season 6 Episode 21: Dr Thorton Hears a Who

  A patient is given an experimental drug as treatment for Parkinson's disease, but after further investigation Lu and Dylan are led to question the effectiveness of the medicine. Meanwhile, Dylan's daughter is surprised when her grandparents drop by for a visit

• Season 6 Episode 20: Baby Boom

  When the unstable girlfriend of a dead patient claims to have a bomb Kayla is forced to lie about his medical status in order to diffuse the situation. Meanwhile, Lu attempts to save a pregnant woman who is suffering with meningitis

• Season 6 Episode 19: Unorthodox Treatment

  Dr West administers treatment to a 34-year-old cancer sufferer, while Lu gives a young girl a drug designed to ease pulmonary hypertension

• Season 6 Episode 18: My Sister, My Docter, Myself

  Kayla is surprised when her sister Keisha - who is suffering with a mental illness - shows up after an absence of six years, and Lu uses unique methods to assist a patient

• Season 6 Episode 17: We Wish You a Merry Chryst Meth

  With Dr West on holiday, Lu tries to help a mother hooked on crystal meth who is trying to retain custody of her children

• Season 6 Episode 16: Rhythm of the Heart

  Kayla and Peter argue about who is in charge, while Lu helps a burns victim whose skin has reacted badly to an antibiotic designed to treat her injuries. Starring Tamera Mowry, Josh Coxx and Rosa Blasi

  Next on: Tomorrow at 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 6 Episode 15: Promising Treatments

  Dylan has a fight on his hands when his mastectomy patient's insurance company says she must be released 24 hours after surgery. Lu treats a woman with cerebral palsy whose mother smoked during pregnancy. Lana and Kayla help a boy with a disorder that makes it impossible to read body language

• Season 6 Episode 14: Chief Complaints

  Lu must decide whether to find another donor for a kidney transplant after the patient's sister pulls out of an operation to donate her own. Medical drama, starring Rosa Blasi

• Season 6 Episode 13: Agony & Ecstasy

  Lu tries to help a pregnant mum keep her children after the District Attorney's office reveals her DNA doesn't match her offspring - and the patient soon learns she has a unique genetic make-up

• Season 6 Episode 12: It Takes a Clinic

  Lu tries to save the life of a patient with learning difficulties who faces the death penalty unless she fails an IQ test. Meanwhile, Dylan treats a governor for her frequent seizures, and discovers her brain is too big for the base of her skull

• Season 6 Episode 11: Broken Hearts

  Lu gives a woman an HIV test, but her advice about the dangers of gang life falls on deaf ears. Kayla treats a woman complaining of pain and suspects she is a drug addict. Dylan is shocked to learn a patient with Down's syndrome will miss out on a heart transplant because of her condition

• Season 6 Episode 10: Family Practice

  Lu and Jonas take their honeymoon in Costa Rica, but there is no time for rest when they treat patients at Rittenhouse. When Jonas is charged with fraud, the couple soon find themselves struggling to raise the funds for the children's surgery

• Season 6 Episode 9: Gunshot Wedding

  West deals with a problematic pregnancy when he treats a patient due to give birth to twins. The doctor discovers one of the pair has attached itself to the other, putting strain on the healthier baby. Medical drama, starring Rick Schroder

• Season 6 Episode 8: Infectious Love

  Dylan's new object of affection, Sonya, is exposed to the avian flu after researching the link between animal and human viruses. Lu investigates why people continue to gain weight after lifestyle changes, and finds her patient Tara has a genetic condition that causes constant hunger

• Season 6 Episode 7: Paternity Test

  Dylan is shocked when an old flame from his college days contacts him asking for help in finding a heart donor. Meanwhile, Lu counsels a family trying to decide whether to turn off the life support of a relative injured in a horrific accident

• Season 6 Episode 6: The Y Factor

  Dylan has a difficult decision to make when treating a female football player, who is taking steroids and won't tell her father or coach. Meanwhile, Lu is treating a woman with twins and Kayla's performance is being evaluated. Starring Janine Turner

• Season 6 Episode 5: Dying Inside

  Dr West races to find out how two students and a teacher became infected with legionnaires' disease, while Lu learns one of her patients has deteriorated after her asthma medication was taken away and replaced with the wrong kind

• Season 6 Episode 4: Differentials

  Lu meets a mother who faces an impossible decision - which of her two sick children to donate a kidney to. Meanwhile, Lana helps a friend come to terms with her pregnancy, and Kayla takes bad advice from a colleague and misses a date with Peter

• Season 6 Episode 3: Clinical Risk

  Kayla contacts the authorities about a patient poisoned with ricin. Lu takes an interest in a policewoman's unorthodox methods when she uses a stun gun on a disorderly 11-year-old. Meanwhile, Dylan performs a complex procedure on an MS patient who is willing to risk her life to beat the disease

• Season 6 Episode 2: Feeling No Pain

  When Lu treats a child with bruises on her body, both her mother and the nanny come under suspicion. Dylan helps a patient having strange symptoms by going undercover to find the cause. Meanwhile, Kayla moves in with Lana after struggling to find an apartment

• Season 6 Episode 1: New Blood

  Lu meets Andy's replacement Dr Dylan West, an obnoxious man she worked with as an intern, and the pair struggle to save the lives of victims of a train crash. Later, Dylan tries to help a pregnant patient make the right decision about risky surgery

Strong Medicine: Season 5 (2004 - 2005)

• Season 5 Episode 22: Cutting the Cord

  Andy faces questions from those opposed to her promotion, and Lu's methods do her no favours. Meanwhile, Kayla and Peter struggle to find a place to be alone together. Last in series

  Next on: Friday 18th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 21: Implants, Transplants and Cuban Aunts

  Andy treats a beauty pageant finalist whose breast implants have given her a disease, but finds time to meet her friend, a presidential aide from Washington. Meanwhile, Lu struggles to deal with the arrival of 20 immigrants, each one of them pregnant

  Next on: Thursday 17th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 20: First Response

  A child needs an organ transplant after a chemical spill accident, leading Katie and Lu to search homeless shelters for a match. Vanessa has to convince an amputee that life is worth living

  Next on: Wednesday 16th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 19: Foreign Bodies

  Andy treats a patient who needs surgery to save her life. However, the woman refuses to go under the knife until she meets her first grandchild, who is about to be born in Paris. Meanwhile, Lana discovers a way to help a construction worker who needs an operation on his brain tumour

  Next on: Monday 14th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 18: Virgin Birth

  Lana's plan to set up Peter and Kayla backfires, leaving her with a lot of explaining to do, and a race on her hands to organise the Secret Santa. Meanwhile, Andy tries to find a girl who may die without treatment for a disease. Medical drama series starring Janine Turner

  Next on: Tuesday 15th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 17: Code

  Andy is considered for a position as Chief of Surgery, but soon learns a competitor is bribing members of the board responsible for the final decision. On top of this, she also has to decide whether to perform surgery on a pregnant woman who is run over by an SUV driver. Starring Patricia Richardson

  Next on: Friday 11th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 16: Graft

  A seven-year-old girl suffers a serious burn on Hallowe'en night, and the only person who can save her by giving her a skin transplant is her twin sister. Lu is forced to decide if such a procedure is ethical, while Lizzy and her friends witness a crime in the hospital morgue

• Season 5 Episode 15: A Dose of Reality

  Andy meets the man who killed Milo, and is horrified when Jesse befriends him after he gives a speech about the dangers of drink driving at her school. Meanwhile, Jonas is investigated for inside trading

  Next on: Thursday 10th December 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 14: Selective Breeding

  Lu treats a patient suffering from a condition that causes her to behave violently. Andy helps a woman conceive a boy using new IVF technology which decides the sex of the baby, while Peter gets jealous when Kayla goes out on a date. Medical drama, starring Patricia Richardson

  Next on: Today at 5:00pm EST - Lifetime Real Women
• Season 5 Episode 13: Body Mass Increase

  Lu is taken aback to learn her son Marc is the father of a teenage patient's unborn child, while Lana pulls out all the stops to cajole people into taking part in a charity walk in aid of breast cancer. Janine Turner stars

• Season 5 Episode 12: Cinderella in Scrubs

  Andy diagnoses a patient with cancer, after nine previous doctors had declared her healthy. The woman is livid and promptly sues her insurance company. An adoptive mother is told she may have to return her five-year-old daughter to her biological mother - a former drug addict

• Season 5 Episode 11: Like Cures Like

  A victim of a mysterious accident suffers severe brain damage. Kayla, Andy and the head neurologist, along with the patient's wife, have to decide whether he should have an experimental and potentially life-threatening surgery to place a chip in his brain

• Season 5 Episode 10: Life in the Balance

  A woman works up the courage to ask her Olympic gymnast sister to donate her liver to save her life, while Andy and Kayla help a clinically depressed resident get back on track after a suicide attempt. Lu tries to convince Jonas not to build a discount store in her neighbourhood

• Season 5 Episode 9: Prophylactic Measures

  Andy loses control when she finds herself unable to save the life of a woman. She puts her extreme reaction down to her guilt over Milo's death even though there was nothing she could have done to avert it. Medical drama, starring Patricia Richardson

• Season 5 Episode 8: Bleeding Heart

  Dr Campbell is asked to endorse a new book about female heart health. However, when the author dies of a coronary, her husband refuses to publicly announce the cause of her death. Meanwhile, Lu is shocked when three schoolgirls come to the ER with similar and shocking symptoms

• Season 5 Episode 7: Healing Touch

  Kayla is frustrated when a patient refuses to be treated by her because of her race and intern status. Dr Campbell refuses to step into the breach, only to find a complaint has been filed against her, while a new doctor arrives at Rittenhouse to replace Milo

• Season 5 Episode 6: Goodbye Slash Rest in Peace

  Dr Campbell worries about a patient who continues to request cosmetic surgery on her breasts even though she has already had many operations. Looking ahead to possible implications, she fears further work will make it harder to detect cancer in the future because of all the scar tissue

• Season 5 Episode 5: Fractured

  Lizzy has her knee operated on after injuring herself while playing football, and Andy is surprised as her ex-husband turns up unexpectedly. When he learns that she is dating Milo, Andy invites them both to dinner to meet each other, but tragedy ensues

• Season 5 Episode 4: Cape Cancer

  Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beachside cabin owned by a patient. However, the holiday is interrupted when a boy suddenly becomes very ill with symptoms similar to those of a cancer patient. They are then shocked to learn that nine other residents of the town have died of cancer

• Season 5 Episode 3: Omissions

  Dr Campbell treats a patient who won't admit she is an alcoholic. The woman's daughter goes to great lengths to get her to stop drinking. Another of Andy's patient's needs a kidney transplant, but no-one in her family is a match. Patricia Richardson stars

• Season 5 Episode 2: Touched By an Idol

  Andy advises a rock star patient to cancel some of her concerts because of fatigue. While the singer recovers, she invites Lu's terminally ill young patient to spend the day with her, and Ben starts a concierge service to keep the clinic open when it faces financial difficulties

• Season 5 Episode 1: Positive Results

  Ben receives the results of his HIV test, and decides to hire his ex-wife to make up for the damage he caused to her career. New intern Kayla Thorton gets into trouble for asking about a girl's sexual behaviour, and Andy learns her daughter's friend is addicted to cough syrup

Strong Medicine: Season 4 (2003 - 2004)

• Season 4 Episode 22: Quarantine

  Lu fears that one of her patients may have Sars, and the doctors discuss the disease as they await the results from the lab. Meanwhile, Andy worries that she will lose Jesse if she moves to California. Last in series

• Season 4 Episode 21: Identity Crisis

  The staff at Rittenhouse all fear for their jobs as rumours of Octavian Systems taking control of the institution spread, but Andy is assured that her role within the company isn't under threat. Meanwhile, one of Lu's charges makes a damning accusation about another patient, and Ben Sanderson tries to cut screening tests for newborns

• Season 4 Episode 20: The Real World Rittenhouse

  A girl is admitted to Rittenhouse with suspected E-coli poisoning, which Lu believes could have been contracted by eating undercooked food. Later, she meets Ben Sanderson from the Fielding Foundation, who suggests filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary to increase the centre's funds

• Season 4 Episode 19: Weights and Measures

  Marc is concerned that a friend is being abused by her boyfriend and Lu tends to an HIV-infected woman who feels healthier than she looks. Elsewhere, a couple seek gastric bypass surgery to help treat their obesity and Dr Jackson sends Nurse Riggs on an unusual assignment, which could take her in a different career direction

• Season 4 Episode 18: Ears, Ho's and Threat

  Lu helps a woman suffering with Alzheimer's, a patient seeks 'revirginisation' surgery and an Indian heiress with a deformity turns to Andi for treatment so her parents can organise an arranged marriage

• Season 4 Episode 17: Seize the Day

  Lu is forced to deal with a five-year-old patient's schizophrenic mother who has stopped her daughter's medication in favour of a special diet, and Andi faces her first Christmas holiday without the children

• Season 4 Episode 16: Prescriptions

  A pharmaceutical company launches a scheme that offers money to volunteers to try out a new anti-smoking drug, and one of Lu's patients reacts positively to the treatment. Meanwhile, an advice columnist being treated by Andy undergoes surgery, only to find she has lost her ability to read

• Season 4 Episode 15: Coming Clean

  Andi encounters a woman with amnesia, and agonises over whether to reveal facts that her fiance has kept secret. Meanwhile, Lu faces an ethical dilemma when a pregnant patient refuses to curb her drug habit

• Season 4 Episode 14: Love and Let Die

  Lu has a hard time of it when a terminally ill patient asks her to broach the delicate subject of assisted suicide. Meanwhile, Andi has to tell a couple why they are having trouble conceiving a child, before new boyfriend Milo asks her to dinner at his parents' house : where she doesn't get the warm reception she was hoping for

• Season 4 Episode 13: Skin

  Andi faces a difficult day as she realises the financial impact her divorce will have on her family, and is called in to save the life of a gunshot-wound victim, before arguing with Lu about the cause of another patient's heart attack

• Season 4 Episode 12: Jeaneology

  Andi and Lu's patients both show signs of poisoning, but it turns out this may have more to do with where they shop than their treatment. Later, Lu tries to mediate between an alcoholic and the daughter offering part of her liver for transplant

• Season 4 Episode 11: Maternal Mirrors

  Andi and Morton perform an experimental xenotransplant using the heart of a chimpanzee, but Peter questions the rights of the animal. Meanwhile, Lu watches over a patient who has taken a turn for the worse, and debates whether proper procedure was followed

• Season 4 Episode 10: Bad Liver

  Lu's patient receives a liver transplant and an ex-con appears to be suffering from more than depression. Meanwhile, Lana comes face to face with her past and Andi takes her relationship with Dr Morton to the next level

• Season 4 Episode 9: Speculum for a Heavyweight

  Lu attempts to persuade a female boxer not to fight her next bout, Dr Campbell treats an unwell Blain, and tries her hardest to shake off an illness as she prepares to begin divorce proceedings

• Season 4 Episode 8: Temperature's Rising

  Andy and the staff have trouble coping with a heatwave which hits Philadelphia, and Dr Campbell is faced with telling a patient who hopes to become a mother that she will develop Alzheimer's disease within 10 years

• Season 4 Episode 7: Vaccinations

  A smallpox vaccine for a hospital worker leads to life threatening complications for her child; Andy helps a premature baby and her mother; Lu teaches a chauvinist a lesson about consent.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Misdiagnosis Murder

  A pregnant woman with a history of being physically abused goes missing, landing Lu in a sticky situation as she agonises over whether to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality, or make an improper revelation that might just prove beneficial. Meanwhile, Andy accuses a colleague of serious malpractice.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Breathing Lessons

  A pregnant woman's husband has little sympathy for the difficult time his wife is having and Peter tries to make him understand her predicament. Lu worries that an injury-prone girl is being subjected to physical abuse by her father and Andi has doubts about her nanny's innocent veneer

• Season 4 Episode 4: Rash Decisions

  Andy discovers that a TV chef has leprosy when she develops a rash. Lu must decide between avenging Mickey's death and upholding his beliefs about the death penalty when she is asked to testify for the defence of his mentally unstable murderer

• Season 4 Episode 3: Heartbeats and Deadbeats

  Marc stays out until after midnight, prompting Lu to insist on babysitting him in the future until he becomes more responsible. Andy argues with Milo over how to perform heart surgery, and also has to tell an elderly woman that she has contracted HIV. Meanwhile, Peter and Lana have a frustrating search for what seems like the proverbial needle in a haystack

• Season 4 Episode 2: Emergency Contacts

  Lu comes face to face with the doctor who raped her, although he is now in need of life-saving surgery, while Peter begins to date a woman with terminal diabetes

• Season 4 Episode 1: The Hero Heart

  Lu quickly rushes Mickey to hospital in a desperate bid to save his life, after he takes a bullet aimed at her. She puts him on a respiratory machine, but the damage is already done and he soon dies. Meanwhile, Andi experiments on a baby in a bubble, but receives news from the FDA that the procedure has not been unauthorised

Strong Medicine: Season 3 (2002 - 2003)

• Season 3 Episode 22: Risk

  Andi and Les reunite for their daughter's surgery, Lu is arrested for refusing to co-operate with a murder investigation and Robert faces a blast from the past. Last in series

• Season 3 Episode 21: Degeneration

  A couple are faced with having to decide which of their two ailing children should receive a life-saving operation

• Season 3 Episode 20: Addicted to Love

  Andi is forced to tell her children why their father has left and Lu uncovers a drinking problem among the college girls at a hall of residence. Medical drama, starring Patricia Richardson

• Season 3 Episode 19: Intensive Care

  After a number of severe problems at home, Andi finds herself being struck by her husband when a complete failure to control his temper manifests itself through physical violence

• Season 3 Episode 18: Blocked Lines

  The first local case of West Nile virus causes panic in the community, and Lu tries to help a working mother spend more time with her hospitalised son

• Season 3 Episode 17: Orders

  Lu treats a pregnant woman, who she later discovers to be under investigation for several unexplained infant deaths, while Andy considers exposing some potentially explosive secrets

• Season 3 Episode 16: PMS, Lies and Red Tape

  Lu is reunited with an old friend, while Andi returns to the Army on reserve duty and treats a woman with post-polio syndrome

• Season 3 Episode 15: The Philadelphia Chromosome

  Andi treats a deaf woman with rheumatoid arthritis, while Lu finds herself up against the government when one of her patients is suspected of being a terrorist

• Season 3 Episode 14: Poison

  Andi suspects foul play when a patient displays baffling symptoms, and Lu is forced to relive painful memories when she is instructed to castrate a paroled sex offender

• Season 3 Episode 13: Deterioration

  Lu attempts to stop a chickenpox outbreak, while Andi worries her daughter has an eating disorder and three of her patients contract a potentially fatal infection

• Season 3 Episode 12: Blush

  Lu weighs the risks in prescribing pain medications to a former addict; Andy treats an up-and-coming attorney.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Flesh and Blood

  Andy finds herself facing a dilemma as she weighs up her loyalties to her concerned mother and her schizophrenic daughter, and warns Lu that a patient's symptoms, resembling an everyday rash, may in fact be caused by a flesh-eating virus

• Season 3 Episode 10: House Calls

  Andi gets a call from a former Army colleague who has become an astronaut and needs her help. Medical drama, starring Rosa Blasi and Patricia Richardson

• Season 3 Episode 9: Family History

  A lung cancer patient claims to be Lu's half-sister, while Andi tries to speed up the release of a drug that could help Robert's wife, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Medical drama, starring Rosa Blasi and Patricia Richardson

• Season 3 Episode 8: Contraindications

  Dr Campbell tries to discover the cause of a woman's repeated miscarriages, and crosses swords with Lu again when a drug-addicted patient almost dies. Patricia Richardson and Rosa Blasi star

• Season 3 Episode 7: Admissions

  Lu clashes with Dana's replacement over a case involving a woman who sells a healthy kidney to a wealthy patient. With Rosa Blasi and Patricia Richardson

• Season 3 Episode 6: Discharged

  Lu tries to ensure a wealthy patient and a homeless woman receive equal care, while Dana's encounter with a transgendered mother prompts some important decision-making. Starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 3 Episode 5: Compassionate Release

  Lu treats an inmate for cervical cancer and takes on the system for its approach to female healthcare, while Dana operates on an unborn baby's heart

• Season 3 Episode 4: Heartbeat

  Dana makes the heartbreaking decision to assist a teenage cancer sufferer to die and Lu's assumptions unwittingly cause a violent outburst. Hospital drama, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 3 Episode 3: Stages

  Dana treats a popular minister who refuses to face the fact that she may go blind and Lu attempts to help a woman whose immune system is jeopardising her chances of conceiving. Drama, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 3 Episode 2: Outcomes

  Peter agrees to be Dana's sperm donor; Dana helps a family whose child suffers from a disease; Lu must take action before the outcome becomes fatal for her patient.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Positive

  Dana seeks a suitable father for the baby she plans to have, while Lu puts herself in danger. Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi star

Strong Medicine: Season 2 (2001 - 2002)

• Season 2 Episode 22: Recovery Time

  Lu tries to cope with the aftershock of the rape, and matters go from bad to worse when the jury refuse to indict Dr Kilner for the attack. Meanwhile, one of Dana's patients has an important decision to make. Last in series

• Season 2 Episode 21: Trauma

  Lu's son finds out about the rape and vows to punish Dr Kilner, while Dana is forced to ask her attacker for help

• Season 2 Episode 20: Rape Kit

  Lu is raped by one of the hospital's most eminent surgeons and Dana tries to help a car crash victim

• Season 2 Episode 19: Type and Cross

  Dana and Lu tackle a city-wide blood shortage in Philadelphia, forcing them to make difficult decisions

• Season 2 Episode 18: Shock

  The nurses go on strike, Dana faces a tough decision over the health of a baby boy, and Lu tries to help a woman with an abusive husband

• Season 2 Episode 17: Precautions

  Lu discovers the mother of a missing baby is a wanted criminal, while Dana reluctantly agrees to appear in a commercial for the hospital

• Season 2 Episode 16: Black 'n' Flu

  Dana suffers from nausea, prompting her to wonder if she's pregnant, while Lu finds herself on the front line in a battle against a deadly disease

• Season 2 Episode 15: Bloodwork

  Dana counsels a woman and her emotionally distant son, who have both been diagnosed as suffering from lead poisoning. Meanwhile, Lu goes to work for a stenographer with a wrist complaint. Medical drama, starring Janine Turner

• Season 2 Episode 14: Hot Flash

  A middle-aged patient pretending to be much younger has her deception ruined by the onset of the menopause. A political candidate jeopardises her life by refusing to have an abortion, and Nick makes a terrible mistake, leaving a couple facing unwarranted allegations of child abuse

• Season 2 Episode 13: Silent Epidemic

  Dana treats a woman with a mysterious illness which is tearing her Amish community apart, while Lu courts controversy by helping an unlicensed daycare centre to remain open. Drama, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 2 Episode 12: Accidents

  A champion skater with epilepsy makes a heartbreaking decision and Lu guests on a radio show, leading to a tense on-air confrontation. Drama starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 2 Episode 11: Systemic

  Dana faces up to a personal tragedy and a diabetic woman asks Lu to help her prove she wasn't drink-driving

• Season 2 Episode 10: Zol Zein Gezint

  Dana tackles a delicate issue as she attempts to explain how a black couple have ended up with a white son, and Lu stumbles across a dark secret being hidden by a respected Rabbi and his wife. Drama, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 2 Episode 9: Control Group

  Lu treats an anorexic who is hiding a family secret, while Dana is pressured to ensure Robert's wife receives experimental drug treatment. Drama, starring Janine Turner, Rosa Blasi and Josh Coxx

• Season 2 Episode 8: Rebirth

  One of Dana's patients turns to Lu for help after becoming homeless and Marc faces suspension from school. Janine Turner stars

• Season 2 Episode 7: Impaired

  Dana helps an alcoholic and Lu becomes stuck in the middle of a desperate child-custody battle. Drama, starring Janine Turner

• Season 2 Episode 6: Relief

  Dana is blamed for causing a professional baseball player to miss a game, and Lu helps a sick concert pianist make an important audition

• Season 2 Episode 5: Attachments

  Robert turns to the hospital's ethics committee in a bid to force the parents of conjoined twins to have them separated. Drama, starring Janine Turner

• Season 2 Episode 4: History

  Lu uncovers a secret when she helps her grandmother through a tricky bone marrow transplant. Featuring a guest appearance by singer Mary J Blige

• Season 2 Episode 3: Gray Matter

  A nurse is pricked with an HIV-infected needle; Dana must remove a brain tumor from her high-school nemesis.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Adverse Reactions

  Robert is accused of being sizeist, and a female army officer suffering from Gulf War syndrome refuses treatment, hoping to avoid jeopardising a promotion

• Season 2 Episode 1: Donors

  The death of an embryo donor poses Dana with an ethical dilemma and Lu tries to lift the spirits of a heart transplant candidate. Medical drama, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

Strong Medicine: Season 1 (2000 - 2001)

• Season 1 Episode 22: Mortality

  Dana seriously thinks about her future at Rittenhouse and the mother of a man on death row goes on hunger strike in a bid to halt his execution. Medical drama series, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 1 Episode 21: Wednesday Night Fever

  A pregnant woman's baby is kidnapped, Robert's wife returns to Rittenhouse and a blind date for Lana ends in the emergency room. Medical drama, starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 1 Episode 20: Drugstore Cowgirl

  Lu meets an ex-con whose illness has landed her in a sticky situation and Dana makes a shocking discovery about a fatally ill priest

• Season 1 Episode 19: Childcare

  Lu is pressed into providing an untested treatment for an autistic child, while a game designer's fatal illness exposes a rift between her mother and husband

• Season 1 Episode 18: Complications

  A teacher at Marc's school loses his job after a sexually transmitted disease spreads like wildfire, and Dana finds out that two pregnant women have the same partner but are unaware of each other

• Season 1 Episode 17: Maternity

  Lu uncovers an environmental health hazard at a housing project which could lead to tenants being wrongly evicted, while Dana treats a nursing mother who is suffering from severe depression. Janine Turner stars

• Season 1 Episode 16: Fix

  Lu tries to persuade a deaf couple to consider risky surgery for themselves and their daughter, while Dana treats a friend's heroin addiction

• Season 1 Episode 15: Blessed Events

  Dana searches for the truth behind a patient's puzzling pregnancy and Lu discovers a hospital employee is suffering from a fatal disease

• Season 1 Episode 14: Side Effects

  Tragedy strikes after a homeless woman undergoes treatment for schizophrenia, and Dana is put in an awkward position when a mother asks her to operate on her son : despite her husband's opposition to the procedure

• Season 1 Episode 13: Second Opinion

  Lu makes a stand against the bureaucracy that refuses to recognise a patient's chronic disease, and Dana uncovers a teenage girl's ritual circumcision

• Season 1 Episode 12: Brainchild

  A Parkinson's sufferer pressures Dana for an experimental treatment and Peter falls for a painter who has severe migraines. Meanwhile, Mac confesses that his girlfriend is an alcoholic

• Season 1 Episode 11: BRCA2

  Dana takes a leave of absence to help her mother, who has breast cancer, so Lu agrees to cover her workload, but stirs up trouble in the process

• Season 1 Episode 10: BRCA1

  Dana is placed in a difficult position as her latest breast cancer research fails, while Lu fights for a patient to be awarded the time off she needs to undergo chemotherapy

• Season 1 Episode 9: Dependency

  Dana counsels an abused wife, desperately hoping to persuade her to leave her violent husband, while Lu faces a dilemma after uncovering evidence of a social worker stealing medication from a client to feed her own addiction

• Season 1 Episode 8: Miracle Cure

  Dana discovers an airline pilot has a brain disorder, and Lu uncovers a secret about a patient's mother. Medical drama, starring Janine Turner

• Season 1 Episode 7: Do No Harm

  A shooting at the clinic leaves an influential council member on the critical list and Peter makes a disturbing discovery about a patient's past

• Season 1 Episode 6: Drug Interactions

  Suspicious injuries lead Dana to believe Robert may have beaten his wife, and Lu is approached by a drug addict wanting to be sterilised

• Season 1 Episode 5: Performance Anxiety

  A high-school basketball player has steroids in her blood; Dana must make a life-or-death decision for a Jane Doe; Dana begins a secretive relationship with an intern.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Second Look

  Dana has a difficult decision to make when an old friend consults her about some risky reconstructive surgery

• Season 1 Episode 3: Misconceptions

  A woman asks Dana if she will help her get pregnant and a HIV positive mother takes her son off his anti-AIDS medication

• Season 1 Episode 2: Pre-Existing Conditions

  As a family await the arrival of a surrogate baby they discover the child may have a rare birth defect while Lu makes a shocking discovery. Medical drama starring Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  Dr Luisa Delgado fights to keep her South Philadelphia women's clinic open amid handling heroin addicts, a streetwise support group and a domestic abuse case that isn's what it seems