How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,路580 episodes
Implementing evidence-based medicine in developing countrie
The programme looks at discovering and dealing with cancer
The placebo effect, AIDS in Thailand and stories from operating theatres around the world
Treating post-traumatic stress with eye movement, and boosting complementary medicine
Olympic champions, AIDS testing in South Africa, polio in Indonesia; and deadly viruses
The blood disorder thalassaemia and the growing health gap between rich and poor
Contraceptive safety, an operation to cure blindness and science meets art
The health risks of being a man, the cancer message and attitudes to medical advances
New breast cancer treatments, spiders and surgeons, help for parents of premature babies
A special edition of the programme looks at bereavement involving the loss of a child
Eating Greek for a long life, how longer living affects our health and dementia explored
Stuttering facts, being a doctor in a foreign country, and robots in operating theatres
How a stroke affects speech, new cures in modern medicine and coping with social phobia
A review of three new books which aim to guide people through the pressures of life
The Disability Information Trust's home management manual for the less able bodied
Parasitical worms in school children and a report from Joyland school in western Kenya
Sex, pregnancy and childbirth, the importance of weaning and post-natal depression
A conference on spiritual care, and youngsters learn first aid from the Red Cross
How stress can develop at work, how to recognise symptoms and how to combat it
The health and financial costs of illness brought on through stress at work
How our adult health is determined in the womb, and extreme sports for the disabled
A report on the UK's third national No Smoking Day and laser surgery advances reviewed
What you should do if someone you were eating with began to choke
The unprecedented scale of the problem of TB, with the loss of 30 million lives likely
Tuberculosis is spiralling out of control, the programme looks at treatment and causes
A report on the health of our cities and what needs to be tackled
Blood donation and blood health explored
Help for snorers, saving teeth and how flies can help heal cuts
National Carers Week, how to deal with chilblains and coping with bedwetting
Discussing the problem of violence and those affected by it
