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Can A Patch Replace A Pill?

A new way of taking medicine, 'warm' operations and a famous Ethiopian hospital

• 13 mins

The First Ever Condom - And Other Contraceptive Firsts

Contraceptives, artificial hips for children, and painless ways to remove saliva stones

• 13 mins

Transgenic Solutions To Health Problems

Shiatsu's pain relief, coping with disaster and transgenic animals and plants for medicine

• 13 mins

National Condom Week

The programme celebrates the condom to mark National Condom Week

• 13 mins

Bringing Maternity Care To Refugees

The rights of disabled people in the Lebanon, and maternity services in Thai refugee camps

• 13 mins

Circumcision - To Cut Or Not To Cut?

A debate on the health benefits of circumcision versus leaving the foreskin alone

• 13 mins

Bringing Sight To The Blind

Restoring someone's sight after blindness has occurred

• 13 mins

Heart Disease Scan Breakthrough

Heart disease explored, including infections, operations and a powerful ultrasound scanner

• 13 mins

Treating Dysentery In Bangladesh

A urine test for HIV, a connection between FGM and fistulas and dysentery in Bangladesh

• 13 mins

A New Approach to Pain Relief

A new approach to anaesthetics and what can be done about child sex abuse?

• 13 mins

Helping Others Against The Odds

Three men who are pioneering tremendous changes in health care against the odds

• 13 mins

Cancer - How, What And Why?

Discussion on cancer, symptoms, treatment and prevention, and gossiping for good health

• 13 mins

A Test To Predict Alzheimer's

Bad breath, a health breakthrough, and news of a development in Alzheimer's disease

• 14 mins

What Is Depression And How To Cope With It

A look at dealing with depression and how the condition affects its sufferers

• 13 mins

Flying And Deep Vein Thrombosis

How to keep healthy on aeroplanes, avoiding sunburn, an outbreak of meningitis in Romania

• 13 mins

Could Mosquito Nets Cure Asthma?

Impregnated mosquito nets and asthma, a soup to ease diarrhoea, medicine in Nigeria

• 13 mins

Bob Champion's Cancer Awareness Crusade

A report about the racing jockey Bob Champion and his raising of money for Cancer Research

• 13 mins

Pill-Free Contraception

A new form of contraception for women, and the sex lives of prehistoric men and women

• 13 mins

How To Treat Herpes

Herpes advice, how your brain is what you eat, and ears for children born without them

• 13 mins

Prostate Problems Explained

Gynaecological cancers explored, how prostitutes stay healthy and prostate problems

• 13 mins

Sex - What You Need To Know

Positive thinking, and 'Sexplained' - an uncensored guide to sexual health

• 13 mins

World Aids Day

Feeling faint, the boy who feels no pain, and World AIDS Day

• 13 mins

When Mental Health Is A Racist Issue

Ginger power, population growth in Turkey, inequalities in UK mental health services

• 13 mins

Beating A Way To Good Health

The programme explores alternative therapies including sea-water, chanting and drumming

• 13 mins

How Sharing Is Helping Caring

Caring and sharing, how health care workers exchange their expertise around the world

• 13 mins

Frankincense And Myrrh

Taking your pulse, a 2000 year old cure for smelly feet, gifts for a king and hair history

• 13 mins

Eczema - Stopping The Itch Scratch Cycle

News for eczema and tinnitus sufferers, how the internet is helping the terminally ill

• 13 mins

Baby Formula Manufacturers Under Fire

Skin graft breakthough, how one girl has toes for fingers and an update on baby milk

• 13 mins

Chagas Disease

The Masai make the headlines, the right to die without pain and Chagas disease

• 13 mins

Yemen's Polio Epidemic

Polio immunisation in Yemen, a cure for a dry mouth and clumsiness in children

• 13 mins