Health Matters Episodes Episode guide
-
![]()
Teenage Kicks - Smoking And Drinking
Teenage smoking and drinking, advice for men wanting a baby, why chocolate is healthy
-
![]()
Medical Equipment That Is Not Fit For Purpose
Medical equipment that isn't fit for purpose, heart health and artificial limbs in India
-
![]()
The Drug Trail And Spread Of HIV In Thailand
The AIDS trail, breastfeeding and HIV, face-saving surgery for babies with a cleft palate
-
![]()
How A Simple Supplement Could Save The Sight Of Children
Essential Vitamin A, info on Viagra; the Nepalese given the gift of sight and migraines
-
![]()
The WHO's New Health Target
The UN's new health target, soothing babies to sleep and telling teenagers about sex
-
![]()
Nursing Around The World
Hepatitis B help for a listener, prostate problems and nursing around the world
-
![]()
How River Blindness Has Devastated Ghana
A report on the legacy of the disease river blindness in Ghana
-
![]()
Living With Autism
Report on living and coping with the brain development condition autism
-
![]()
WHO's 2000 Health Pledge - What Next?
How far has the world's health improved since WHO's pledge to eradicate disease by 2000?
-
![]()
Smoking - The Habit That World Doesn't Want To Give Up
Smoking was once seen as a cure for illnesses but is now a global public health issue
-
![]()
Shaking Off A Cold - Global Remedies
How to shake off a cold, the health of Nepalese and Indian mothers, heart disease and sex
-
![]()
Human Relations - Sex Education Lessons Around The World
Human relations, disability in Nepal, blood pressure and physical schizophrenia
-
![]()
Making Childbirth Safer For Mothers And Babies.
Making childbirth safer, treating people born with limb deformities and East Timor
-
![]()
South Africa's AIDS Crisis
HIV and AIDS in South Africa, how to manage and treat asthma, and a safe-sex gel
-
![]()
Help For A Very Rare Skin Condition
A rare skin condition, cataract surgery, medical gloves for cold hands, Indian stress tips
-
![]()
Online Support For Autism
Websites to help autism, the diabetes epidemic, Ghanaian schoolchildren learn about drugs
-
![]()
Treating And Preventing Tuberculosis
A listener's TB question, an Indian torture survey, how children can have fun in hospital
-
![]()
Living With Mental Illness
Mental illness is discussed at a Namibian conference, and an outbreak of polio in Iraq
-
![]()
The Importance Of Women's Health
Why women's health impacts on everyone, reports from Africa and Russia; and high-fat diets
-
![]()
Ageing - How To Look After The Elderly
Ageing, counselling for vitiligo sufferers and mass meningitis immunisation in Africa
-
![]()
Virus Outbreak In Malaysia
Malaysia's viral outbreak, Asians giving blood, an art exhibition by cancer patients
-
![]()
Traditional Chinese Medicine
A report on Chinese medicine and how modern medicine is used to compliment it
-
![]()
Helping Victims Of The Turkish Earthquake
Turkish earthquake, sperm washing and HIV infection and treatment for rickets
-
![]()
The Alzheimer's Postcode Lottery
The Alzheimer's postcode lottery, giving up smoking and new technology to cure skin cancer
-
![]()
Worms To Treat Bowel Disease
How worms are helping cure inflammatory bowel disease and the breast-versus-bottle debate
-
![]()
Here Comes The Sun - Safe Eclipse Viewing
A report on safe eclipse viewing, the effect of jet lag and how to get babies to sleep
-
![]()
Breakthrough For Parkinson's Sufferers
Parkinson's breakthrough, sewage, sick placenta syndrome and Chinese medicine
-
![]()
Hope For Babies Born With HIV
Babies with HIV, music as medicine, and how cyclist Lance Armstrong beat cancer
-
![]()
Vitamin A And Easing The Symptoms Of Malaria
Malaria in Papa Nu Guinea, depression, a US hospital treating Middle East patients
-
![]()
Hope For Treating Hepatitis B
News for Hepatitis B sufferers, do homeopathic remedies work, treating bites and stings
