Health Matters Episodes Episode guide
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The Link Between Poverty And Health
Poverty and health, the man who can't get AIDS and the truth behind hallucinations
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Can Homeopathy Treat Breast Cancer?
Treating breast cancer with both orthodox medicine and homeopathy
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Health Workers Doing Extraordinary Things
A report on how ordinary people are doing extraordinary things
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Mass Hysteria In Macedonian
Treatment for stomach cancer; a cap to prevent hairloss, a mysterious illness in Macedonia
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Beating Guinea Worm
Eradicating guinea worm, winter-time blues, whether Bond should carry a health warning
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Yemen's Polio Epidemic
Polio immunisation in Yemen, a cure for a dry mouth and clumsiness in children
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Chagas Disease
The Masai make the headlines, the right to die without pain and Chagas disease
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Baby Formula Manufacturers Under Fire
Skin graft breakthough, how one girl has toes for fingers and an update on baby milk
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Eczema - Stopping The Itch Scratch Cycle
News for eczema and tinnitus sufferers, how the internet is helping the terminally ill
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Frankincense And Myrrh
Taking your pulse, a 2000 year old cure for smelly feet, gifts for a king and hair history
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How Sharing Is Helping Caring
Caring and sharing, how health care workers exchange their expertise around the world
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Beating A Way To Good Health
The programme explores alternative therapies including sea-water, chanting and drumming
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When Mental Health Is A Racist Issue
Ginger power, population growth in Turkey, inequalities in UK mental health services
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World Aids Day
Feeling faint, the boy who feels no pain, and World AIDS Day
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Sex - What You Need To Know
Positive thinking, and 'Sexplained' - an uncensored guide to sexual health
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Prostate Problems Explained
Gynaecological cancers explored, how prostitutes stay healthy and prostate problems
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How To Treat Herpes
Herpes advice, how your brain is what you eat, and ears for children born without them
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Pill-Free Contraception
A new form of contraception for women, and the sex lives of prehistoric men and women
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Bob Champion's Cancer Awareness Crusade
A report about the racing jockey Bob Champion and his raising of money for Cancer Research
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Could Mosquito Nets Cure Asthma?
Impregnated mosquito nets and asthma, a soup to ease diarrhoea, medicine in Nigeria
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Flying And Deep Vein Thrombosis
How to keep healthy on aeroplanes, avoiding sunburn, an outbreak of meningitis in Romania
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What Is Depression And How To Cope With It
A look at dealing with depression and how the condition affects its sufferers
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A Test To Predict Alzheimer's
Bad breath, a health breakthrough, and news of a development in Alzheimer's disease
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Cancer - How, What And Why?
Discussion on cancer, symptoms, treatment and prevention, and gossiping for good health
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Helping Others Against The Odds
Three men who are pioneering tremendous changes in health care against the odds
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A New Approach to Pain Relief
A new approach to anaesthetics and what can be done about child sex abuse?
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Treating Dysentery In Bangladesh
A urine test for HIV, a connection between FGM and fistulas and dysentery in Bangladesh
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Heart Disease Scan Breakthrough
Heart disease explored, including infections, operations and a powerful ultrasound scanner
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Bringing Sight To The Blind
Restoring someone's sight after blindness has occurred
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Circumcision - To Cut Or Not To Cut?
A debate on the health benefits of circumcision versus leaving the foreskin alone
