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  1. Failed by the NHS

    Why are many young people with mental illness not getting the right NHS treatment?

    BBC Three

  2. Living Wills: What Would You Want?

    Professor Jenny Kitzinger explains the role of 'living wills'.

    BBC Radio Wales

  3. Princess Di's Handshake

    With the rise of modern technology is there still a role for human touch in healthcare?

    BBC Radio 4

  4. Football, Madness and Me

    Three people with mental health issues join a football league as a form of therapy.

    BBC Three

  5. Welcome to the World of Weight Loss

    Documentary following diverse members of three slimming clubs as they try to lose weight.

    BBC Two

  6. The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese

    Film following a woman whose Plymouth accent disappeared, leaving her sounding Chinese.

    BBC One

  7. The Day I Got My Sight Back

    Documentary following a man as doctors make a radical attempt to restore his sight.

    BBC One

  8. Bethesda (Hospice)

    Insight into the day-to-day life at Bethesda Hospice in Stornoway.

    BBC ALBA

  9. Live Longer Wales

    American world expert warns that Wales is heading for an obesity crisis.

    BBC One Wales

  10. Is My Job Killing Me?

    Tara Hammet undertakes to change the fitness habits of employees at the DVLA.

    BBC One Wales

  11. Jamie Owen: Fat and Forty-Something

    Following broadcaster Jamie Owen's campaign to shed a stone in two months.

    BBC One Wales

  12. Ray Gravell: Life with Diabetes

    Documentary about about the late Ray Gravell's life with diabetes.

    BBC One Wales

  13. The Welsh Weight Clinic

    Following three patients from Wales's only NHS weight management clinic.

    BBC One Wales

  14. Autism: Challenging Behaviour

    A look at how ABA (applied behaviour analysis) is used to treat autism.

    BBC Four

  15. The Girl with Two Hearts

    How one young girl's battle with heart disease could lead to groundbreaking breakthroughs.

    BBC One Wales

  16. Secrets of the Body Clock with Terry Wogan

    Sir Terry Wogan discovers why timing is everything as he explores the human body clock.

    BBC One

  17. Icebound: The Greatest Dog Story Ever Told

    How a team of men and dogs relayed an antitoxin across 674 miles of Alaskan wilderness.

    BBC Four

  18. Underage and Over the Limit

    Film following the youth workers reaching out to help underage drinkers in the North East.

    BBC Three

  19. TB: Return of the Plague

    Film about victims of multi drug resistant mutations of tuberculosis in Swaziland.

    BBC Four

  20. Caring for Carers: The Concert

    Dementia campaigner Tommy Whitelaw is on a mission to celebrate Scotland's carers.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  21. The Fantastical World of Hormones with Professor John Wass

    John Wass presents a documentary telling the story of how hormones were discovered.

    BBC Four

  22. Kris: Dying to Live

    A young woman's fight against cancer and her campaign to battle public ignorance.

    BBC Three

  23. Lavinia Greenlaw - Five Fever Tales (Omnibus)

    Lavinia Greenlaw's five-part drama about Malaria, one of the oldest of human diseases.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Are You Sitting Comfortably?

    Is prolonged sitting bad for us? Chris Bowlby gets up from his desk to find out.

    BBC Radio 4

  25. The Battle to Beat Polio

    Stephanie Flanders explores the history of the search for a vaccine for poliomyelitis.

    BBC Two

  26. Blood, Smack & Tears: Afghanistan's Heroin Hell

    Film following two young Afghani heroin addicts as they try to kick their smack habits.

    BBC Three

  27. Out on a Limb

    Meeting the staff and patients at the Artificial Limb and Appliance Centre in Cardiff.

    BBC Radio Wales

  28. Live Longer Wales: Helen's Heart - Diet or Die

    Helen Whewell attempts to lose weight in order to alleviate a serious heart condition.

    BBC One Wales

  29. Welsh Weight Clinic - The Next Generation

    Following three patients at Wales's only weight management clinic.

    BBC One Wales

  30. Great Welsh Diet Experiment: One Year On

    Tara Hammett checks on the people she put on her fitness boot camp a year ago.

    BBC One Wales

  31.

    The Waiting

    Raymond Tallis describes how the act of waiting pervades so much of our daily lives.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. Britain's Compulsive Shoppers

    Documentary. Jasmine Harman investigates compulsive shopping.

    BBC One

  33.

    Patients Doing It for Themselves

    Vivienne Parry explores how patients are taking control of their own treatment.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Bronntanas na Beatha

    The issues surrounding organ donation and transplantation in Ireland.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  35. Am I Here by Myself?

    Three people in their twenties share their experiences of depression and self-harm.

    BBC Radio Wales

  36. Broken Hearts

    Edi Stark explores broken heart syndrome, which is bought on by stress or shock.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  37. Could I Get Ebola?

    Dr Chris Van Tulleken reveals the ten essential things we need to know about Ebola.

    BBC One

  38. How Safe are My Drugs?

    B. Traits meets users and dealers to find out how much they really know about their drugs.

    BBC Three

  39.

    Midwives to Be

    Sarah Taylor follows a new intake of student midwives at King's College London.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  40.

    Mindfulness: Panacea or Fad?

    How a Buddhist meditation technique became a cure-all for the ills of modern life.

    BBC Radio 4

  41. A&E: One Day

    Dominic Hughes follows Dr Jim Butler across one of his shifts at North Manchester General.

    BBC News

  42. The Truth about Cancer

    A film revealing the impact of cancer on its sufferers and their families.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  43. Scotland's Plague Years

    Author Louise Welsh explores historic bubonic plague outbreaks in Scotland.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  44. Childbirth: All or Nothing

    Documentary following four pregnant women all making very different choices.

    BBC One

  45. Stop Cutting Our Girls: A Comic Relief Special

    Zawe Ashton attempts to uncover the truth about FGM in the UK and abroad.

    BBC Three

  46. Pills, Powders and Protein Shakes

    Tim Rogers investigates the effectiveness of sports supplements.

    BBC News

  47. Heart Transplants

    Dan Walker visits Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and meets heart patients.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

  48. Dividing the Sexes

    Louise Welsh explores how society has attempted to categorise intersex people.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  49. Life After Suicide

    Angela Samata explores why some people take their own lives.

    BBC One

  50. Eat to Live Forever with Giles Coren

    Giles Coren tries three extreme diet regimes in a bid to increase his life expectancy.

    BBC Two

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