How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,路580 episodes
How embarrassment is preventing the effective treatment of bowel and bladder cancers
One in ten babies is born with an eye infection, often caused by a treatable STI
In Britain where you live and what work you do affects your health and life expectancy
Report on the World Health Organisation's global fight against polio
A medical breakthrough - the cause and the cure for peptic ulcer disease
Report from the annual open day at the world-famous hospital in the centre of London
A special report on the disease which affects 100 million people worldwide
The Jaipur limb, how the Red Cross reunites families and Thai villagers get health lessons
Rationing and healthy eating, binge eating and the health benefits of vegetarianism
Psychology and tinnitus, and using story time to explain Parkinson's disease to children
What are the benefits of breastfeeding, and why do so many mums prefer to bottle feed?
Increasing awareness of nutrition and heatlh is vital for improving health of Zambians
WHO's first annual survey, controlling river blindness and tuberculosis in Siberia
Cancer, fact and fiction around the disease is explored
The programme visits the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
The programme visits America's largest trauma centre, which is in Los Angeles
How gene therapy is transforming lives
Practical facts we need to know about AIDS and the HIV virus
Help for those who have lost mobility, parents or their youth
Treating haemophilia and kidney disease, and a new type of dental drill
Worms, athlete's foot and one of the world's biggest killers - heart disease
Curing blindness, saving feet and limb loss through mine explosions
Healing music, obsessive compulsive disorder and treating excessive facial hair
Japanese pregnancies, relief work in Afghanistan and a diet to help the malnourished
A look at the misuse of legal and illegal drugs by young people
Discussing the morals of mercy-killing and assisted suicide
Report from Amsterdam on the study of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Blood transfusions, a brain-scanning helmet and oxygen chambers
The Royal Society of Medicine's encyclopedia and other health books reviewed
How the drug AZT is helping fight AIDS, upside-down cure for vertigo and treating ulcers
