How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,路580 episodes
An hour-long special on car crashes, and the increasing numbers of those killed
An investigation into whether road safety campaigns really work
Polio returns to Botswana, palm oil to treat blindness and fasting if you are diabetic
HIV and dementia, the conflict in Iraq and its children, washing hands, good bacteria
Alzheimer's gene therapy, sleeping sickness diagnosis, asthma triggers and treatments
Feeding mums to be, a cooking bus for children, and the use of growth charts
A special report on malaria, 100 years after first attempts to eradicate the disease
A report into issues of accessibility, transmission, prevention and treatment for HIV/AIDS
An investigation into the obstacles to achieving the complete elimination of polio
An exploration into the place and role of alternative medicine
A report on burns, how to avoid them, how to treat them and how they change lives
How to ensure that donating blood is safe, both to give and to receive
An investigation into what high and low blood pressure can mean for your health
Cardiologist Dr Graeme Cunningham shares his struggle with alchoholism
A look at the AIDS epidemic and the creation of the The Aids Support Organisation (TASO)
A report on drugs and how profit is sometimes put before patients
A report on a service hoping to revolutionise roadside medical treatment in India
The science behind the sense of touch, its power to heal and soothe
A report on fertility, infertility and the despair of Ugandan women who cannot conceive
A report on skin, why are so many of us unhappy with the one we are in?
A report on the diarrhoeal diseases that follow flooding
An examination of foot-related health issues including club foot, verucas and diabetes
A report from Nairobi, investigating the political and health impact of smoking in Kenya
Tobacco is one of Malawi's main crops, so how would tobacco control affect its people?
A report on how the world is facing up to growing changes in our ageing population
Investigating different global approaches and attitudes to the idea and meaning of legacy
A report on the devastating form of dementia known as Alzheimer's Disease
Confronting the most final of journey's in one's life, death
A report on the first International Association for the Study of Obesity in South Africa
When is fear of something rational and when does that fear become a phobia?
