Health Matters Episodes Episode guide
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Bringing Maternity Care To Refugees
The rights of disabled people in the Lebanon, and maternity services in Thai refugee camps
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National Condom Week
The programme celebrates the condom to mark National Condom Week
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Transgenic Solutions To Health Problems
Shiatsu's pain relief, coping with disaster and transgenic animals and plants for medicine
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The First Ever Condom - And Other Contraceptive Firsts
Contraceptives, artificial hips for children, and painless ways to remove saliva stones
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Can A Patch Replace A Pill?
A new way of taking medicine, 'warm' operations and a famous Ethiopian hospital
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The United Nations' Quest For Worldwide Good Health
A report on progress being made by United Nations' initiatives around the world
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Mother And Child Healthcare In Ethiopia
A report on the Mother and Child Healthcare programme at the Addis Alem Health Centre
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Swapping Iraqi Oil For Food And Healthcare
Report on the agreement signed by Iraq and the UN, which will allow Iraq to sell oil
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Why Good Health Begins In The Womb
How the health of a baby in the womb directly affects the health of the adult in later life
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World No Tobacco Day
New statistics on smoking and its dangers to mark World No Tobacco Day
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Child Osteopathy
The Osteopathic Centre for Children in London and a Nicaraguan wheelchair project
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Violence And How To Deal With It
Discussing the problem of violence and those affected by it
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How Common Is Bedwetting?
National Carers Week, how to deal with chilblains and coping with bedwetting
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How The Humble Maggot Could Help Heal Injuries
Help for snorers, saving teeth and how flies can help heal cuts
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Blood - Donation And Health
Blood donation and blood health explored
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Is Our Food Safe?
A report on the health of our cities and what needs to be tackled
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Tuberculosis - The Comeback Disease
Tuberculosis is spiralling out of control, the programme looks at treatment and causes
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The Tuberculosis Crisis
The unprecedented scale of the problem of TB, with the loss of 30 million lives likely
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How To Save A Life - Choking
What you should do if someone you were eating with began to choke
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Giving Up Smoking
A report on the UK's third national No Smoking Day and laser surgery advances reviewed
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How Our Mother's Diet Affects Our Lifelong Health
How our adult health is determined in the womb, and extreme sports for the disabled
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Work-Related Stress - The Financial Cost
The health and financial costs of illness brought on through stress at work
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Work-Related Stress - The Silent Epidemic
How stress can develop at work, how to recognise symptoms and how to combat it
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Providing Emotional And Spiritual Health Care
A conference on spiritual care, and youngsters learn first aid from the Red Cross
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The Importance Of Weaning
Sex, pregnancy and childbirth, the importance of weaning and post-natal depression
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Low Cost Drug Helps Beat Worms
Parasitical worms in school children and a report from Joyland school in western Kenya
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Living With A Disability
The Disability Information Trust's home management manual for the less able bodied
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Manage Your Mind With A Good Self Help Book
A review of three new books which aim to guide people through the pressures of life
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Learning To Speak Again After A Stroke
How a stroke affects speech, new cures in modern medicine and coping with social phobia
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Stuttering - Fact And Fiction
Stuttering facts, being a doctor in a foreign country, and robots in operating theatres