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Health Matters Episodes

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    ECHO International Health Services

    A visit to ECHO International Health Services, a pioneering not-for-profit company

  2. How Altitude Affects Medicine

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

  3. Alcohol Abuse In Russia

    First broadcast in 1998. The impact of binge drinking in Russia

  4. HIV Treatment And Education

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

  5. China's Smoking Epidemic

    The programme reports on tobacco related deaths and a new treatment for vitiligo

  6. Preventing Blindness

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

  7. Tobacco - Stopping Young People From Taking Up The Habit

    A report on the global challenge to prevent young people from taking up smoking

  8. 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

  9. South Africa's Health Train

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

  10. Global Health Priorities - Health Rationing

    How governments set health priorities and America's Amish community builds its own clinic

  11. World Mental Health Day

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

  12. Asia - Talking About Alzheimer's Disease

    The first Asian Alzheimer's conference and the Hope For Life project in Ghana

  13. Global Floods - The Real Impact On Health

    A report on the unfolding catastrophes in Bangladesh, China and India after massive floods

  14. Treating The Victims of Poisoned Mustard Oil Epidemic

    Contaminated mustard oil, a wacky way of fighting malaria, and controlling diabetes

  15. Helping African Men Talk About AIDS

    A report on a conference on sexual health for African men, and hearing loss in Ghana

  16. Traditional Medicine - AIDS in Uganda

    AIDS in Uganda; the role of herbal remedies and traditional healers

  17. Traditional Medicine In A Modern World

    Putting herbal remedies to the test and a report on a spiritual healing ceremony

  18. The Work Of Mobility India

    A programme about getting people moving, focusing on organisations in India

  19. Using Older Drugs To Treat Malaria

    Using older drugs to treat malaria, cutting abortion deaths and a vaccine for typhus

  20. How Rehydration Salts Are Saving Lives

    Oral hydration solutions and living with incontinence

  21. Malaria - Misconceptions And Myths

    Malaria, a report on music, myths and misconceptions

  22. Eastern Europe - Healthcare In Transition

    A report on developments in Eastern European healthcare following the Soviet break up

  23. How Kenya's Children Are Going Through a Health Phase

    Teaching personal hygiene to children in Kenya and the disabled find work at Hope Nursery

  24. The Jose Carreras Leukaemia Foundation

    How Jose Carreras conquered leukaemia and now helps others to do the same

  25. The Unspeakables - Health Matters With A Stigma

    Leprosy, mental health and psoriasis are all health matters with a stigma attached to them

  26. Sleeping Sickness In Angola

    A report on the sleeping sickness outbreak in Angola and typhoid in Tajikistan

  27. Solar-Powered Hearing

    Solar-powered hearing aids, a poisons expert in Zimbabwe and free Nigerian medicine

  28. Money And Health

    So many health matters are related to money, a look at money and health

  29. Africa's Β£5 Million Health Investment

    The creation of an Africa centre and improving awareness of gonorrhea

  30. A Tribute To Florence Nightingale

    A tribute to Florence Nightingale, pioneering nurse who was born in 1820 and died in 1910

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