How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,·580 episodes
The health consequences for the survivors of conflict and civil war around the globe
27 Apr 1999,·23 mins
Angola's polio outbreak, chewing for health and the benefits of art therapy
04 May 1999,·23 mins
The re-appearance of Yellow Fever, STIs; and are youngsters getting enough sex education?
11 May 1999,·23 mins
The dangers of betel, PCs for sick children and treating pregnant women with malaria
18 May 1999,·23 mins
The Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, female facial hair and a new malaria drug
19 May 1999,·23 mins
The US Embassy car bombing in Nairobi, Kenya and what can be learned from it
01 Jun 1999,·23 mins
Bed socks for sleeping problems, mobile doctors in Sri Lanka and dough therapy
03 Jun 1999,·23 mins
Life-saving advice, diagnostic flapjacks, and black children born with white skin
08 Jun 1999,·23 mins
A report from the burns unit of the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, England
15 Jun 1999,·23 mins
Women's sex lives, skull massage and the nightmare in the Balkans continues
22 Jun 1999,·23 mins
Quitting smoking, migraines and treating them, the healing power of antibacterial honey
27 Jun 1999,·23 mins
News for Hepatitis B sufferers, do homeopathic remedies work, treating bites and stings
06 Jul 1999,·23 mins
Malaria in Papa Nu Guinea, depression, a US hospital treating Middle East patients
12 Jul 1999,·23 mins
Babies with HIV, music as medicine, and how cyclist Lance Armstrong beat cancer
20 Jul 1999,·23 mins
Parkinson's breakthrough, sewage, sick placenta syndrome and Chinese medicine
27 Jul 1999,·23 mins
A report on safe eclipse viewing, the effect of jet lag and how to get babies to sleep
03 Aug 1999,·24 mins
How worms are helping cure inflammatory bowel disease and the breast-versus-bottle debate
03 Aug 1999,·23 mins
The Alzheimer's postcode lottery, giving up smoking and new technology to cure skin cancer
10 Aug 1999,·23 mins
Turkish earthquake, sperm washing and HIV infection and treatment for rickets
24 Aug 1999,·23 mins
A report on Chinese medicine and how modern medicine is used to compliment it
16 Sep 1999,·23 mins
Malaysia's viral outbreak, Asians giving blood, an art exhibition by cancer patients
21 Sep 1999,·23 mins
Ageing, counselling for vitiligo sufferers and mass meningitis immunisation in Africa
28 Sep 1999,·23 mins
Why women's health impacts on everyone, reports from Africa and Russia; and high-fat diets
05 Oct 1999,·23 mins
Mental illness is discussed at a Namibian conference, and an outbreak of polio in Iraq
12 Oct 1999,·23 mins
A listener's TB question, an Indian torture survey, how children can have fun in hospital
01 Nov 1999,·23 mins
Websites to help autism, the diabetes epidemic, Ghanaian schoolchildren learn about drugs
04 Nov 1999,·23 mins
A rare skin condition, cataract surgery, medical gloves for cold hands, Indian stress tips
19 Nov 1999,·24 mins
HIV and AIDS in South Africa, how to manage and treat asthma, and a safe-sex gel
26 Nov 1999,·23 mins
Making childbirth safer, treating people born with limb deformities and East Timor
02 Dec 1999,·23 mins
Human relations, disability in Nepal, blood pressure and physical schizophrenia
14 Dec 1999,·23 mins
