Disease
People Fixing The World. Unsung victories in the fight against disease. Audio, 23 minutes
Remarkable successes against some of the most unpleasant illnesses on the planet
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Health Check. Lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2. Audio, 27 minutes
Is the lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2 evading vaccines?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Unavailable
People Fixing The World. The great mosquito swap. Audio, 23 minutes
An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Cuba's blindness epidemic. Audio, 9 minutes
Up to 50,000 Cubans were inexplicably struck down with sight loss in the early 1990s
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted23 June 2021
Health Check. Tanzania joins Covax. Audio, 26 minutes
Tanzania joins Covax; the first national TB Survey in South Africa and lockdown memories
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 15, Jonnie Peacock. Video, 58 minutes
Jonnie Peacock ends up captivated by his four-times-great-grandmother.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 9 months
Health Check. Is BMI an outdated risk measure? Audio, 26 minutes
Is BMI an outdated measure for risk of type 2 diabetes in diverse ethnic groups?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Africa Life Clinic. Trachoma. Audio, 9 minutes
Treating one of the oldest recognised diseases on earth
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Health Check. Gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Audio, 36 minutes
Gene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Health Check. Milestone in HIV prevention for women. Audio, 35 minutes
African clinical study finds an injection every 8 weeks protects women from HIV infection
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Health Check. Measles outbreak threat due to Covid. Audio, 36 minutes
Disruption to measles immunisation raises the risk of large outbreaks in Africa
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Forum. The woman whose cells changed medical history. Audio, 40 minutes
The story of Henrietta Lacks who unwittingly left behind an extraordinary medical legacy
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Across the Red Line. Series 5, Do we need to learn to live with more risk? Audio, 42 minutes
Anne McElvoy invites those on opposing sides of political issues to listen to each other.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Big Idea. Why do we find things disgusting? Audio, 9 minutes
Meet a ‘disgustologist’ who has been uncovering answers to our uneasy feelings
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted21 November 2017
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- Posted17 August 2020
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- Posted17 July 2020
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- Posted6 July 2020
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- Posted6 July 2020
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- Posted6 May 2020
