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Medical Books Reviewed

The Royal Society of Medicine's encyclopedia and other health books reviewed

• 13 mins

Could AZT Help Treat AIDS?

How the drug AZT is helping fight AIDS, upside-down cure for vertigo and treating ulcers

• 13 mins

How Medicines Really Work

Implementing evidence-based medicine in developing countrie

• 13 mins

Finding And Treating Cancer

The programme looks at discovering and dealing with cancer

• 13 mins

The Placebo Effect

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

• 13 mins

How Eye Movements Are Easing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treating post-traumatic stress with eye movement, and boosting complementary medicine

• 13 mins

South African AIDS Patients Get Raw Deal

Olympic champions, AIDS testing in South Africa, polio in Indonesia; and deadly viruses

• 13 mins

Poverty And Ill Health

The blood disorder thalassaemia and the growing health gap between rich and poor

• 13 mins

How Safe Are Contraceptives?

Contraceptive safety, an operation to cure blindness and science meets art

• 13 mins

How Being Male Can Damage Your Health

The health risks of being a man, the cancer message and attitudes to medical advances

• 13 mins

The Best Way To Treat Breast Cancer

New breast cancer treatments, spiders and surgeons, help for parents of premature babies

• 12 mins

Coping With The Loss Of A Child

A special edition of the programme looks at bereavement involving the loss of a child

• 13 mins

Eat Greek For A Long And Healthy Life

Eating Greek for a long life, how longer living affects our health and dementia explored

• 13 mins

Stuttering - Fact And Fiction

Stuttering facts, being a doctor in a foreign country, and robots in operating theatres

• 13 mins

Learning To Speak Again After A Stroke

How a stroke affects speech, new cures in modern medicine and coping with social phobia

• 13 mins

Manage Your Mind With A Good Self Help Book

A review of three new books which aim to guide people through the pressures of life

• 13 mins

Living With A Disability

The Disability Information Trust's home management manual for the less able bodied

• 13 mins

Low Cost Drug Helps Beat Worms

Parasitical worms in school children and a report from Joyland school in western Kenya

• 15 mins

The Importance Of Weaning

Sex, pregnancy and childbirth, the importance of weaning and post-natal depression

• 13 mins

Providing Emotional And Spiritual Health Care

A conference on spiritual care, and youngsters learn first aid from the Red Cross

• 13 mins

Work-Related Stress - The Silent Epidemic

How stress can develop at work, how to recognise symptoms and how to combat it

• 13 mins

Work-Related Stress - The Financial Cost

The health and financial costs of illness brought on through stress at work

• 13 mins

How Our Mother's Diet Affects Our Lifelong Health

How our adult health is determined in the womb, and extreme sports for the disabled

• 13 mins

Giving Up Smoking

A report on the UK's third national No Smoking Day and laser surgery advances reviewed

• 13 mins

How To Save A Life - Choking

What you should do if someone you were eating with began to choke

• 13 mins

The Tuberculosis Crisis

The unprecedented scale of the problem of TB, with the loss of 30 million lives likely

• 13 mins

Tuberculosis - The Comeback Disease

Tuberculosis is spiralling out of control, the programme looks at treatment and causes

• 13 mins

Is Our Food Safe?

A report on the health of our cities and what needs to be tackled

• 13 mins

Blood - Donation And Health

Blood donation and blood health explored

• 13 mins

How The Humble Maggot Could Help Heal Injuries

Help for snorers, saving teeth and how flies can help heal cuts

• 13 mins