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Health Matters Episodes

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    Burns - Treating Them And Avoiding Them

    A report on burns, how to avoid them, how to treat them and how they change lives

  2. Medicine - What Are The Alternatives?

    An exploration into the place and role of alternative medicine

  3. Ridding The World Of Polio

    An investigation into the obstacles to achieving the complete elimination of polio

  4. Special Report - Treating AIDS

    A report into issues of accessibility, transmission, prevention and treatment for HIV/AIDS

  5. Special Report - Malaria

    A special report on malaria, 100 years after first attempts to eradicate the disease

  6. Nourishing The Mothers And Children Of The World

    Feeding mums to be, a cooking bus for children, and the use of growth charts

  7. Gene Therapy Success For Alzheimer's

    Alzheimer's gene therapy, sleeping sickness diagnosis, asthma triggers and treatments

  8. HIV And Dementia

    HIV and dementia, the conflict in Iraq and its children, washing hands, good bacteria

  9. Polio Returns To Botswana

    Polio returns to Botswana, palm oil to treat blindness and fasting if you are diabetic

  10. Death On The Roads - Driving Home The Message

    An investigation into whether road safety campaigns really work

  11. Death On The Roads

    An hour-long special on car crashes, and the increasing numbers of those killed

  12. Later Life - Part 4

    A series of programmes on later life- how we can expect to be treated if we reach old age?

  13. Later Life - Part 3

    Part of series looking at later life, this week examines how ageing affects men and women

  14. Later Life - Part 2

    Part of a series exploring the physical and emotional events we experience in later life

  15. Later Life - Part 1

    Part of a series exploring the physical and emotional events we experience in later life

  16. The First South African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

    Conference on sexual health in South Africa, and getting young people to talk about sex

  17. Could Heavy Use of Antibiotics Cause Breast Cancer?

    Cancer and antibiotics, the final push against polio, and rats used to fight tuberculosis

  18. Treating Children With Cancer

    Childhood cancer in the developing world, and overcoming Down's Syndrome prejudice

  19. Health Screening Of Migrants To The UK

    Down's Syndrome update, and controversy over the compulsory screening of UK immigrants

  20. The Asian Bird Flu Outbreak - Developing A Vaccine

    Asian bird flu outbreak, who benefits from clinical drug trials and research serendipity

  21. The Body Mass Index Debate

    BMI debate, traditional healthcare stereotypes and a look at kangaroo care

  22. New And Old Infectious Diseases

    A report on the spread of infectious diseases, malaria, polio, sleeping sickness and SARS

  23. The Aftermath Of The Iranian Earthquake

    Iranian earthquake, saving a child's life, a code of practice for UK assisted conceptions

  24. A Guide To Hepatitis

    A report about the hepatitis virus which has five variants, A, B, C, D and E

  25. Do We Need Medical Jargon?

    An investigation into the debate over medical jargon and whether it is necessary

  26. Developing Drugs For Neglected Diseases

    Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDI),obstetric fistula, foetal alcohol syndrome

  27. Ebola - An Outbreak In The Congo

    A report on the ebola outbreak in Congo and a global re-emergence of rickets

  28. Should Organ Selling Be Legalised?

    Legalised organ selling, health effects of the war in Uganda, and dancing off illness

  29. HIV In China

    A report on the HIV and AIDS situation in China where discrimination is rife

  30. HIV/AIDS In Russia

    A report on what Russia is doing in the fight against HIV and AIDS

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