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How Altitude Affects Medicine

How altitude affects drug efficacy, a clampdown on black market drugs, and Ayurveda

How altitude affects drug efficacy, a clampdown on black market drugs, and Ayurveda. How one doctors discovered that biological changes in the body at high altitude can affect the impact of medicines. The programme also looks at a clampdown on black market medicines in the Ivory Coast. Finally, Ayureveda, an Indian system which uses a holistic form of treatments, including certain foods, to treat everyday health issues. Presenter unknown.

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14 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project