Medicine
The Evidence. Science and Society, Traditional Healers and HIV. Audio, 50 minutes
Can bringing together faith healers and medics help South Africa’s fight against HIV?
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service
- Available for over a year
People Fixing The World. Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work. Audio, 23 minutes
An app is helping people donate their leftover drugs to people who can't afford them.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service
- Available for over a year
Find Me a Cure. Audio, 28 minutes
Can we cure the most common form of leukaemia? Simon Cox reports.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
5 Live Investigates. Patients Denied Drugs. Audio, 49 minutes
UK taxpayers are denied drugs despite paying for research.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
Health Check. Challenge to Arkansas’ Lethal Injection Drug. Audio, 27 minutes
The rush to execute prisoners in Arkansas before lethal injection drug passes use by date
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service
- Available for over a year
The Evidence. Should Vets and Doctors Work More Closely Together? Audio, 50 minutes
Claudia Hammond and Graham Easton ask should vets and doctors work more closely together?
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service
- Available for over a year
Geriatric Guinea Pigs. Audio, 28 minutes
Geoff Watts asks why older people are often excluded from clinical trials.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Health Check. Getting the Best from Medicine. Audio, 27 minutes
Tackling the twin health threats of over and under-use of medicine around the world
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service
- Available for over a year
5 Live Investigates. Cancer 'Cure' Investigation. Audio, 47 minutes
An unlicensed and unproven treatment being illegally sold as a possible cure for cancer.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley. Audio, 30 minutes
Cancer pioneer Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, killed by an IRA bomb when he was just 45.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Natural Histories. Daffodils. Audio, 28 minutes
Brett Westwood explores the role daffodils play in art, medicine, literature and belief.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4. Treating Stroke: The Doctors' Dilemma. Audio, 38 minutes
Does a leading stroke drug cause more harm than good?
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Truth About... The Truth About AIDS, AIDS in Uganda. Audio, 28 minutes
Leading Ugandan doctor, Peter Mugyenyi, on the realities of HIV therapy in his country
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything, Anna Bertha's Hand. Audio, 15 minutes
Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Tom Solomon on Roald Dahl. Audio, 30 minutes
Professor Tom Solomon talks about his former patient, writer Roald Dahl.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 4, Noreena Hertz. Audio, 15 minutes
Noreena Hertz argues that it is sometimes very dangerous to put your trust in experts.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Filling the Autism Gap. Audio, 27 minutes
John Waite asks why parents of some autistic children are trying unproven therapies.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Anaesthesia. Audio, 28 minutes
Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Tim Key's Poetry Programme. Series 2, Medicine. Audio, 15 minutes
Tim Key takes a comic look at the thorny issue of medicine, through the medium of poetry.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Tried and Tested? Audio, 26 minutes
Calls for reform of safety testing rules after thousands of women are damaged by surgery.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Let There Be Dark, Seeing the Future. Audio, 15 minutes
Rupert Goodwins on the potential of the internet to improve the future for blind people.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Let There Be Dark, Long, Slow Journey through the Night. Audio, 15 minutes
Rupert Goodwins tries to find if technology can limit his isolation from blindness.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Let There Be Dark, Doctoring the Evidence. Audio, 15 minutes
Rupert Goodwins reflects on the medical experience of losing his sight.
- AttributionÂ鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
- Available for over a year