Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
World Service,·907 episodes
Claudia Hammond revisits classic case studies that have advanced psychological research
06 Sep 2010,·28 mins
Strange objects which have turned up in people's airways
30 Aug 2010,·28 mins
Could a new form of resistant superbug spell the end for antibiotics
23 Aug 2010,·28 mins
Can literature help doctors and nurses understand mental illness? Claudia Hammond reports
16 Aug 2010,·28 mins
Claudia Hammond reports on new research showing how education may lower dementia risk
09 Aug 2010,·28 mins
Dementia special to mark World Alzheimer's Day.
03 Aug 2010,·28 mins
New research on the problems facing people living into old age with HIV.
02 Aug 2010,·28 mins
Claudia Hammond reports on head size & Alzheimer's disease, and heart failure treatment.
26 Jul 2010,·28 mins
Why a lack of exercise may not necessarily be causing childhood obesity.
19 Jul 2010,·28 mins
Fifty years after the pill's invention, why is there no male equivalent?
12 Jul 2010,·28 mins
Oil spill health effects. Menopause test. Fake psychiatric patients. Mobile phone masts.
05 Jul 2010,·28 mins
Henrietta Lacks; new definitions of psychiatric conditions; premature babies and pain.
28 Jun 2010,·28 mins
Solitary confinement, lead poisoning in Nigeria, Savant syndrome and Restless Legs.
21 Jun 2010,·28 mins
Gay men & blood donation. Sex & sport. Georgia health. Women's groups and babies' health.
14 Jun 2010,·28 mins
Teeth brushing and heart disease; left-handedness; salivary stones; inhalable vaccine
07 Jun 2010,·28 mins
Worldwide shortage of medical isotopes. PACO in Buenos Aires. Tinnitus. Smallpox and HIV.
31 May 2010,·28 mins
Smallpox. Polypill to combat heart disease. Sleeplessness in Cairo. Autism and migration.
24 May 2010,·28 mins
Viewing the dead after traumatic death. Should toddlers watch TV? Prostate cancer.
17 May 2010,·28 mins
The psychology of face recognition. Why can’t some people recognise their own children?
10 May 2010,·28 mins
Why black and Asian Britons are reluctant to volunteer as blood and organ donors?
03 May 2010,·28 mins
Health benefits of barefoot running; endurance running; the G8 maternal health initiative
26 Apr 2010,·28 mins
Health messages: too scary? Indian generic drugs; Egypt pregnancy screening; Men's health
19 Apr 2010,·28 mins
Dr Atul Gawande talks to Claudia Hammond. Simple, ingenious solutions to medical problems.
05 Apr 2010,·28 mins
Obama's health reforms; counting deaths to improve health; and India's search for TB drug.
29 Mar 2010,·28 mins
Wheat allergy; morning after pill; dangerous tape worms; end of life visions.
22 Mar 2010,·28 mins
Stephen Hawking's voice; i2Home; Computer Braille; disability and the internet.
15 Mar 2010,·28 mins
Malaria in Cambodia. Condom fit. Feeling bad when ill. The internet and disability.
11 Mar 2010,·28 mins
Two births from ovarian transplant;Winter Olympic dentistry;C-sections;Sleep deprivation.
08 Mar 2010,·28 mins
Severe dengue outbreak in South America. Mindfulness. Hot weather advice.
01 Mar 2010,·28 mins
Q Fever, memory and pregnancy, the hospital gown, the difference between mind and brain.
22 Feb 2010,·28 mins
