How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,·580 episodes
How embarrassment is preventing the effective treatment of bowel and bladder cancers
08 Mar 1995,·13 mins
One in ten babies is born with an eye infection, often caused by a treatable STI
15 Mar 1995,·13 mins
In Britain where you live and what work you do affects your health and life expectancy
24 Mar 1995,·12 mins
Report on the World Health Organisation's global fight against polio
28 Mar 1995,·13 mins
A medical breakthrough - the cause and the cure for peptic ulcer disease
05 Apr 1995,·13 mins
Report from the annual open day at the world-famous hospital in the centre of London
12 Apr 1995,·13 mins
A special report on the disease which affects 100 million people worldwide
19 Apr 1995,·13 mins
The Jaipur limb, how the Red Cross reunites families and Thai villagers get health lessons
26 Apr 1995,·13 mins
Rationing and healthy eating, binge eating and the health benefits of vegetarianism
Psychology and tinnitus, and using story time to explain Parkinson's disease to children
10 May 1995,·13 mins
What are the benefits of breastfeeding, and why do so many mums prefer to bottle feed?
18 May 1995,·13 mins
Increasing awareness of nutrition and heatlh is vital for improving health of Zambians
WHO's first annual survey, controlling river blindness and tuberculosis in Siberia
24 May 1995,·13 mins
Cancer, fact and fiction around the disease is explored
31 May 1995,·13 mins
The programme visits the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
07 Jun 1995,·14 mins
The programme visits America's largest trauma centre, which is in Los Angeles
14 Jun 1995,·13 mins
How gene therapy is transforming lives
21 Jun 1995,·14 mins
Practical facts we need to know about AIDS and the HIV virus
28 Jun 1995,·13 mins
Help for those who have lost mobility, parents or their youth
05 Jul 1995,·13 mins
Treating haemophilia and kidney disease, and a new type of dental drill
12 Jul 1995,·13 mins
Worms, athlete's foot and one of the world's biggest killers - heart disease
19 Jul 1995,·13 mins
Curing blindness, saving feet and limb loss through mine explosions
26 Jul 1995,·13 mins
Healing music, obsessive compulsive disorder and treating excessive facial hair
03 Aug 1995,·13 mins
Japanese pregnancies, relief work in Afghanistan and a diet to help the malnourished
09 Aug 1995,·13 mins
A look at the misuse of legal and illegal drugs by young people
16 Aug 1995,·14 mins
Discussing the morals of mercy-killing and assisted suicide
22 Aug 1995,·13 mins
Report from Amsterdam on the study of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
06 Sep 1995,·13 mins
Blood transfusions, a brain-scanning helmet and oxygen chambers
13 Sep 1995,·13 mins
The Royal Society of Medicine's encyclopedia and other health books reviewed
21 Sep 1995,·13 mins
How the drug AZT is helping fight AIDS, upside-down cure for vertigo and treating ulcers
27 Sep 1995,·13 mins
