Health Matters Episodes Available now

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

Alcohol Abuse In Russia
First broadcast in 1998. The impact of binge drinking in Russia

HIV Treatment And Education
A report on the availability of HIV and AIDS drugs and education in developing countries

China's Smoking Epidemic
The programme reports on tobacco related deaths and a new treatment for vitiligo

Preventing Blindness
A report on the preventable causes of blindness, and the healing powers of water

Tobacco - Stopping Young People From Taking Up The Habit
A report on the global challenge to prevent young people from taking up smoking

How Climate Change Could Threaten The World's Health
A UN meeting in Buenos Aires on climate change and health, and blind dancers in Bangalore

South Africa's Health Train
South Africa's health train, tackling TB in the UK, and pain that has no obvious cause

Global Health Priorities - Health Rationing
How governments set health priorities and America's Amish community builds its own clinic

World Mental Health Day
Mental Health Day, drug-resistant meningitis and new technology helping deliver babies