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Health Matters Episodes

  1. Orthodox And Traditional Medicine Meet In Nigeria

    A report from Nigeria on orthodox and traditional approaches to medicine and health

  2. AIDS Clinics For Young Children

    AIDS clinics for children, doctor and nurse shortage, DIY dumbbells, and beer baths

  3. A Contraceptive Pill With Added Health Benefits

    Healthy contraception, music to help addiction, Omega 3 update and chewing Khat

  4. A Push To Beat Tuberculosis

    TB update, a pill for heart disease, safe drinking water, living with a brain condition

  5. How Safe Are Drug Trials?

    A look at clinical drug trials and the risks to those involved

  6. The Childhood Obesity Epidemic

    Obese children, mirrors to help chronic pain, malarial treatments and strokes in children

  7. Treating Children With Malaria

    Malaria in children, lead poisoning and avian flu news

  8. Bird Flu In Nigeria

    Bird flu in Africa,tragedy to triumph, swing like a child, low-fat diets and breast cancer

  9. Why Being Happy Is Good For Our Health

    Being optimistic, condoms in Brazil, living with blindness and vitamin D to help TB

  10. The Health And Safety Of Miners

    A report on the health and safety of miners throughout history

  11. Why Smoking Is A Racial Issue

    Smoking and ethnicity,drought in Kenya, Russian fertility rates, and people 'not' patients

  12. Beating Dementia With Exercise

    Dementia fears, disease stigma, penguin walking sticks, training to be an Afghan doctor

  13. New Rotavirus Vaccine

    Rotavirus vaccine, bird flu, children & HIV, and treating children in times of crisis

  14. When A New Year Resolution Is The Difference Between Life And Death

    Sticking to New Year's resolutions which involve, giving up booze, nicotine or drugs

  15. Putting Faith In Healing

    A report on faith healing, practices and treatments

  16. The Hypodermic Syringe

    A look at the invention of the hypodermic syringe which started a medical revolution

  17. Travels Of The Mind - Living After The Tsunami

    A report on how people are overcoming the trauma of the Asian Tsunami

  18. Bird Flu - What We Can Learn From The H5N1 Virus

    A look at the threat to human health posed by bird flu and what we can learn from it

  19. Telemedicine - The Next Frontier

    A report on telemedicine, medical care away from the usual hospital or doctor's surgery

  20. Meningitis - The Difference Between Life And Death

    A special report on what is being done to fight meningitis around the world

  21. Facing AIDS/HIV - Part 2

    Second programme of a review of the global state of HIV and AIDS

  22. Facing AIDS/HIV - Part 1

    A series of reports on HIV and AIDS, this week a look at preventing infection in women

  23. The Link Between Health And Violence

    A report on the relationship between health and violence

  24. Flooding Leads To Leptospirosis Outbreak

    A report on the spread of leptospirosis during flooding in India

  25. The Threat Of Bird Flu

    Special report on the threat of bird flu and the strain H5N1

  26. What Makes You Sick - Indoor Air Pollution

    The health problems caused by indoor air pollution from smoke

  27. What Makes You Sick - Heart Disease In Scotland

    A look at how healthcare workers in Scotland are tackling a rise in heart disease

  28. What Makes You Sick - Living With Animals In Nairobi

    A report from the slums of Nairobi on animal and human health

  29. Accessing Healthcare In Uganda

    A report on how the people in Uganda access the health care they need

  30. The Power To Improve The World's Health

    A report looking at who has the power to give people the healthcare they deserve

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