How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,路580 episodes
Helping orphans and the victims of AIDS, a report on the Hoima project in western Uganda
Breast cancer, a sufferer shares her experience of treatment and recovery
Talking about death, childbirth in Sarajevo; women's sexuality and fertility
An examination of the global scale of sexually transmitted diseases
The availablity and accessibility of abortion is discussed following a UN conference
Diphtheria in the former Soviet Union; the first World Alzheimer's Day; vaginal thrush
The fight to control STDS in Tanzania and Tonga; and plastic condoms replacing latex ones
Life-saving metal detectors; social change and stress; a worldwide blood shortage
A look at why tuberculosis is making a comeback, and what is being done to treat it
Beating mental illness taboos in Fiji; and the launch of the UK's Child Bereavement Trust
Cancer screening; help in disaster zones; the link between cancer and nutrition
Clinical depression; coping with the death of a parent; hypnosis and giving up smoking
Malnutrition and disease; trainee surgeons learn on the job; UK sexual health charity
An allergy special; and how one charity is helping torture survivors worldwide
Guinea worm prevention in Nigeria; and a sleeping sickness epidemic hits parts of Africa
Reports on a new home test kit for HIV; and getting men to talk about impotence
Report from the Infertility Maze exhibition at the Science Museum in London
A visit to Hammersmith Hospital, London to look at innovative digital X-ray technology
Controlling malaria; healthcare in China; and a health book that could change lives
A visit to the Rural Women's Health Education Project in Sri Lanka.
A dialysis machine that works during sleep; language and brain damage; and memory loss
Treating and rehabilitating members of the armed services who have been injured in action
Centenary of Louis Pasteur's death and how vitamin and mineral supplements save lives
Advice for travellers, diarrhoea cure and cement dermatitis in Channel Tunnel workers
Focus on African private medical programmes and plans to eradicate river blindness
Paying tribute to the life saving work of the Red Cross and how we can all save a life
Hands and gloves, fingernail analysis and treating childhood diarrhoea
Better understanding of lupus and sickle cell anaemia is helping advance their treatment
Advice for piles sufferers, and how dogs are is helping the disabled improve their posture
How poetry, music and puppet therapy are helping children and adults recover from illness
