Medical research
The Inquiry. Are We Fighting Cancer the Right Way? Audio, 23 minutes
The rising number of cancer cases worldwide poses a challenge for doctors and governments
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- Posted1 February 2016
Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa. Audio, 28 minutes
How stimulating the brain could be used to treat severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.
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Discovery. Life Changers - Kathryn Maitland. Audio, 27 minutes
Kathryn Maitland has a burning passion to transform clinical research across Africa.
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The Problem of Pain - A Slow Motion Catastrophe. Audio, 28 minutes
Dr Sarah Goldingay explores groundbreaking research into relieving chronic pain.
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The Life Scientific. Henry Marsh on brain surgery. Audio, 28 minutes
Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh talks to Jim Al-Khalili about slicing through our thoughts.
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Tech Life. The Apple Watch is Coming. Audio, 27 minutes
Will the Apple Watch kick-start the wearable tech market? Rory Cellan-Jones presents.
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The Placebo Problem. Audio, 28 minutes
Geoff Watts explores the phenomenon of the nocebo effect and its implications for medicine
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The Life Scientific. Dame Sally Davies on public health. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim al-Khalili talks to Dame Sally Davies about looking after the nation's health.
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Plants: From Roots to Riches. Botanical Medicine. Audio, 15 minutes
Kathy Willis on how new opportunities opened up for finding medicines from plants.
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The Life Scientific. Jeremy Farrar on fighting viruses. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.
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Shared Planet. The Medicinal Planet. Audio, 28 minutes
Monty Don discusses discovering new medicine in the natural world.
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The Life Scientific. Mark Lythgoe. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili discusses medical imaging and mountain climbing with Prof Mark Lythgoe.
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Pop-Up Economics. The Kidney Matchmaker. Audio, 15 minutes
The story of Al Roth, who worked out how to create a clearing-house for kidneys.
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The End of Drug Discovery. Audio, 38 minutes
Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs is drying up.
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An Unhealthy Wait. Audio, 30 minutes
Vivienne Parry on why it takes 17 years for medical discoveries to come into wide use.
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Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks. Audio, 40 minutes
An old antidepressant has unexpected anticancer properties, but no-one is developing it.
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Is Surgery Scientific? Audio, 30 minutes
Surgery is a craft and historically has not been subject to scientific scrutiny until now.
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All in the Mind. Mental Illness - The Remote Psychiatrist - Who Do You Think You Are? Audio, 30 minutes
Claudia Hammond unpicks the statistic that 1 in 4 people have a mental health problem.
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Inflamed Response. Audio, 30 minutes
Research is giving new insights into the relationship between mind and body.
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Getting Your Brain to Bloom. Audio, 30 minutes
Andrew Brown investigates the frontier of our knowledge about new brain cells.
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Who Goes First? Audio, 30 minutes
Richard Uridge explores the pros and cons of self-experimentation by medical researchers.
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Pills, Patients and Profits. The Search for a Cure. Audio, 22 minutes
Examining how the pharmaceutical industry produce new medicines
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