Medicine
Essential Guide. Health: Fixing Genes. Audio, 29 minutes
What does the future hold for molecular medicine?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Essential Guide. Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease. Audio, 29 minutes
Cancer and cardiovascular disease is on the increase - how will we deal with it?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Essential Guide. Infectious Disease. Audio, 28 minutes
The continuing battle with infectious disease around the world
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Tools of the Trade. The Needle. Audio, 14 minutes
An instrument designed to help but feared by many
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science View. Ethics of Using Human Tissue. Audio, 4 minutes
Monitoring and regulation for the use of human tissue used in transplants
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Medicine, inventions and the quick-fix. Audio, 15 minutes
Groundless promises of the media's daily medical miracle and the desire for a quick-fix.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Beyond The Millennium. New Diseases. Audio, 13 minutes
Development of diseases over the next fifteen years and changing approaches to healthcare
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science View. Alternative Medicine. Audio, 5 minutes
Discussion on the value of alternative medicine such as reflexology and acupuncture
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
A Question of Science. Diseases That Threaten Mankind. Audio, 43 minutes
First broadcast in 1997. The diseases creating new threats to mankind and animals
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Computers at Work. Computers and Doctors. Audio, 14 minutes
How computers are helping doctors caring for people who live in distant places
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
A Question of Science. The Great Expectations of Medical Science. Audio, 43 minutes
First broadcast in 1997. Are we expecting too much of our healthcare system?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science View. Medical Information on the Internet. Audio, 4 minutes
Is the internet a reliable source for medical information?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Science View. Health Resources and Prioritising. Audio, 4 minutes
How to make decisions about how money and resources are used in medical treatment
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Surviving AIDS - Part Five. Audio, 28 minutes
Understanding the virus and the implications the high cost of medication has for Africa
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Anatomy of Addiction. Why Do People Become Addicted? Audio, 28 minutes
Why are some humans predisposed to become addicted to something?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sir Roy Calne. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is surgeon and painter Sir Roy Calne
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Unavailable
Science View. Published Scientific Reports. Audio, 4 minutes
What happens when medical research is prematurely published?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Clinton's medical reforms. Audio, 15 minutes
Can Clinton push ahead with medical reform following a Republican victory in the Senate?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Heart Disease. Audio, 28 minutes
Live phone-in discussing heart disease with Dr Tom Sanders and Dr George Miller
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Sick Mind. Physical Therapy. Audio, 45 minutes
Can mental illness can be cured by physical methods of treatment, in particular by drugs?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
