The Benefits Of Breastfeeding

What are the benefits of breastfeeding, and why do so many mums prefer to bottle feed?

• 13 mins

Educating Zambians About Nutrition

Increasing awareness of nutrition and heatlh is vital for improving health of Zambians

• 13 mins

More Than A Third of The World's Population Is Sick - WHO

WHO's first annual survey, controlling river blindness and tuberculosis in Siberia

• 13 mins

Cancer - Fact And Fiction

Cancer, fact and fiction around the disease is explored

• 13 mins

A Visit To The Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland

The programme visits the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 14 mins

A Visit To Los Angeles County Medical Center - Leading Trauma Centre

The programme visits America's largest trauma centre, which is in Los Angeles

• 13 mins

How Gene Therapy Is Transforming Lives

How gene therapy is transforming lives

• 14 mins

Treating HIV And AIDS

Practical facts we need to know about AIDS and the HIV virus

• 13 mins

Helping The Children Of Rwanda

Help for those who have lost mobility, parents or their youth

• 13 mins

Is It Worth Treating Haemophilia?

Treating haemophilia and kidney disease, and a new type of dental drill

• 13 mins

Heart Disease - The World's Biggest Killer

Worms, athlete's foot and one of the world's biggest killers - heart disease

• 13 mins

The Limb Loss Legacy Of Land Mines

Curing blindness, saving feet and limb loss through mine explosions

• 13 mins

Is Music Therapeutic?

Healing music, obsessive compulsive disorder and treating excessive facial hair

• 13 mins

Japanese Pregnancy - Traditions And Practices

Japanese pregnancies, relief work in Afghanistan and a diet to help the malnourished

• 13 mins

Drug Misuse Among Children

A look at the misuse of legal and illegal drugs by young people

• 14 mins

Euthanasia - a special debate

Discussing the morals of mercy-killing and assisted suicide

• 13 mins

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Report from Amsterdam on the study of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

• 13 mins

Alternatives To Blood Transfusion

Blood transfusions, a brain-scanning helmet and oxygen chambers

• 13 mins

Medical Books Reviewed

The Royal Society of Medicine's encyclopedia and other health books reviewed

• 13 mins

Could AZT Help Treat AIDS?

How the drug AZT is helping fight AIDS, upside-down cure for vertigo and treating ulcers

• 13 mins

How Medicines Really Work

Implementing evidence-based medicine in developing countrie

• 13 mins

Finding And Treating Cancer

The programme looks at discovering and dealing with cancer

• 13 mins

The Placebo Effect

The placebo effect, AIDS in Thailand and stories from operating theatres around the world

• 13 mins

How Eye Movements Are Easing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treating post-traumatic stress with eye movement, and boosting complementary medicine

• 13 mins

South African AIDS Patients Get Raw Deal

Olympic champions, AIDS testing in South Africa, polio in Indonesia; and deadly viruses

• 13 mins

Poverty And Ill Health

The blood disorder thalassaemia and the growing health gap between rich and poor

• 13 mins

How Safe Are Contraceptives?

Contraceptive safety, an operation to cure blindness and science meets art

• 13 mins

How Being Male Can Damage Your Health

The health risks of being a man, the cancer message and attitudes to medical advances

• 13 mins

The Best Way To Treat Breast Cancer

New breast cancer treatments, spiders and surgeons, help for parents of premature babies

• 12 mins

Coping With The Loss Of A Child

A special edition of the programme looks at bereavement involving the loss of a child

• 13 mins