Health Matters Episodes Available now

Coping With The Loss Of A Child
A special edition of the programme looks at bereavement involving the loss of a child

The Best Way To Treat Breast Cancer
New breast cancer treatments, spiders and surgeons, help for parents of premature babies

How Being Male Can Damage Your Health
The health risks of being a man, the cancer message and attitudes to medical advances

How Safe Are Contraceptives?
Contraceptive safety, an operation to cure blindness and science meets art

Poverty And Ill Health
The blood disorder thalassaemia and the growing health gap between rich and poor

How Eye Movements Are Easing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Treating post-traumatic stress with eye movement, and boosting complementary medicine

South African AIDS Patients Get Raw Deal
Olympic champions, AIDS testing in South Africa, polio in Indonesia; and deadly viruses

Finding And Treating Cancer
The programme looks at discovering and dealing with cancer

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

How Medicines Really Work
Implementing evidence-based medicine in developing countrie