How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,·580 episodes
The Osteopathic Centre for Children in London and a Nicaraguan wheelchair project
08 May 1996,·14 mins
New statistics on smoking and its dangers to mark World No Tobacco Day
22 May 1996,·14 mins
How the health of a baby in the womb directly affects the health of the adult in later life
29 May 1996,·13 mins
Report on the agreement signed by Iraq and the UN, which will allow Iraq to sell oil
A report on the Mother and Child Healthcare programme at the Addis Alem Health Centre
31 May 1996,·13 mins
A report on progress being made by United Nations' initiatives around the world
12 Jun 1996,·13 mins
A new way of taking medicine, 'warm' operations and a famous Ethiopian hospital
19 Jun 1996,·13 mins
Contraceptives, artificial hips for children, and painless ways to remove saliva stones
26 Jun 1996,·13 mins
Shiatsu's pain relief, coping with disaster and transgenic animals and plants for medicine
03 Jul 1996,·13 mins
The programme celebrates the condom to mark National Condom Week
23 Jul 1996,·13 mins
The rights of disabled people in the Lebanon, and maternity services in Thai refugee camps
24 Jul 1996,·13 mins
A debate on the health benefits of circumcision versus leaving the foreskin alone
30 Jul 1996,·13 mins
Restoring someone's sight after blindness has occurred
06 Aug 1996,·13 mins
Heart disease explored, including infections, operations and a powerful ultrasound scanner
21 Aug 1996,·13 mins
A urine test for HIV, a connection between FGM and fistulas and dysentery in Bangladesh
28 Aug 1996,·13 mins
A new approach to anaesthetics and what can be done about child sex abuse?
04 Sep 1996,·13 mins
Three men who are pioneering tremendous changes in health care against the odds
11 Sep 1996,·13 mins
Discussion on cancer, symptoms, treatment and prevention, and gossiping for good health
12 Sep 1996,·13 mins
Bad breath, a health breakthrough, and news of a development in Alzheimer's disease
18 Sep 1996,·14 mins
A look at dealing with depression and how the condition affects its sufferers
02 Oct 1996,·13 mins
How to keep healthy on aeroplanes, avoiding sunburn, an outbreak of meningitis in Romania
Impregnated mosquito nets and asthma, a soup to ease diarrhoea, medicine in Nigeria
09 Oct 1996,·13 mins
A report about the racing jockey Bob Champion and his raising of money for Cancer Research
A new form of contraception for women, and the sex lives of prehistoric men and women
16 Oct 1996,·13 mins
Herpes advice, how your brain is what you eat, and ears for children born without them
30 Oct 1996,·13 mins
Gynaecological cancers explored, how prostitutes stay healthy and prostate problems
13 Nov 1996,·13 mins
Positive thinking, and 'Sexplained' - an uncensored guide to sexual health
20 Nov 1996,·13 mins
Feeling faint, the boy who feels no pain, and World AIDS Day
27 Nov 1996,·13 mins
Ginger power, population growth in Turkey, inequalities in UK mental health services
The programme explores alternative therapies including sea-water, chanting and drumming
10 Dec 1996,·13 mins
