How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,路580 episodes
The Osteopathic Centre for Children in London and a Nicaraguan wheelchair project
New statistics on smoking and its dangers to mark World No Tobacco Day
How the health of a baby in the womb directly affects the health of the adult in later life
Report on the agreement signed by Iraq and the UN, which will allow Iraq to sell oil
A report on the Mother and Child Healthcare programme at the Addis Alem Health Centre
A report on progress being made by United Nations' initiatives around the world
A new way of taking medicine, 'warm' operations and a famous Ethiopian hospital
Contraceptives, artificial hips for children, and painless ways to remove saliva stones
Shiatsu's pain relief, coping with disaster and transgenic animals and plants for medicine
The programme celebrates the condom to mark National Condom Week
The rights of disabled people in the Lebanon, and maternity services in Thai refugee camps
A debate on the health benefits of circumcision versus leaving the foreskin alone
Restoring someone's sight after blindness has occurred
Heart disease explored, including infections, operations and a powerful ultrasound scanner
A urine test for HIV, a connection between FGM and fistulas and dysentery in Bangladesh
A new approach to anaesthetics and what can be done about child sex abuse?
Three men who are pioneering tremendous changes in health care against the odds
Discussion on cancer, symptoms, treatment and prevention, and gossiping for good health
Bad breath, a health breakthrough, and news of a development in Alzheimer's disease
A look at dealing with depression and how the condition affects its sufferers
How to keep healthy on aeroplanes, avoiding sunburn, an outbreak of meningitis in Romania
Impregnated mosquito nets and asthma, a soup to ease diarrhoea, medicine in Nigeria
A report about the racing jockey Bob Champion and his raising of money for Cancer Research
A new form of contraception for women, and the sex lives of prehistoric men and women
Herpes advice, how your brain is what you eat, and ears for children born without them
Gynaecological cancers explored, how prostitutes stay healthy and prostate problems
Positive thinking, and 'Sexplained' - an uncensored guide to sexual health
Feeling faint, the boy who feels no pain, and World AIDS Day
Ginger power, population growth in Turkey, inequalities in UK mental health services
The programme explores alternative therapies including sea-water, chanting and drumming
