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Health Matters Episodes

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    Tuberculosis - Could Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Treatment Help?

    A look at why tuberculosis is a growing problem, and an Alzheimer's awareness campaign

  2. How Our Diet Affects Our Health

    What we eat and how it affects our health

  3. Cheap Medicines And Developing Nations

    Traditional healing, ancient medicine and palliative care

  4. Malaria - The Search For A Cure

    A century after the discovery of malaria scientists are still struggling to beat it

  5. Singing Their Way To Avoid HIV

    A pioneering health project in Uganda is helping people avoid the threat of HIV

  6. Treating Drug Addiction

    Addiction and attempts to share proven successful cures worldwide

  7. Beating Polio For Good

    Polio and the attempts to finally eradicate it worldwide

  8. Blood Donation - The Facts

    A look at blood donation, myths, facts, and how more of us are being encouraged to do it

  9. Dealing With Learning disabilities

    A look at the different ways societies tackle learning disabilities

  10. The Pros And Cons Of Health Exchange Schemes

    A look at the pros and cons of health exchange schemes

  11. Betel Nut Chewing And Mouth Cancer

    Chewing betel nut and oral cancer,

  12. Tackling Blindness in Bangladesh

    Looking at one group's efforts to tackle blindness in Bangladesh

  13. Female Circumcision

    ***Warning: this programme contains descriptions of female genital mutilation***

  14. New Tablet Could Cut Death Rates For New Mums

    Traditional medicine, the truth about sex, and a tablet helping the health of new mums

  15. How Common Are Keloids?

    The stigma surrounding epilepsy, protein-enhanced maize and keloids explained

  16. Spreading The Word About Sexual Health

    Spreading the word about women's health and selling condoms in Africa

  17. Chlamydia, Infertility And Heart Disease

    Infection and heart disease, a cure for infertility and sex education

  18. Preventing Hib In African Children

    The stigma of epilepsy, dentistry in Nepal, and children's vaccination in The Gambia

  19. Eradicating Blindness

    Why action is needed on blindness, also feet, and children's health and the environment

  20. How To Treat Bad Breath

    Fresh breath and bad breath, baby's first breath and breathing as an aid to memory loss

  21. A Visit To Queen Mary's Burns Unit

    A visit around the wards in the burns unit at London's Queen Mary's College Hospital

  22. Why Peanuts Can Kill

    Why severe allergic reactions are increasing and winning the battle against bilharzia

  23. How To Make A Fly Trap Using a Plastic Bottle

    Report from Finland on SAD, hay fever and making fly traps with plastic bottles

  24. The Tragic Effects Of Counterfeit Drugs

    How to avoid contaminating meat, fake medicine and why we need to throw out old ones

  25. Food For Thought

    A report on food and health, covering organic foods and nutritional information

  26. Why Playing Music Can Be Bad For Your Health

    The health of the world's musicians has been dubbed as 'poor' at a health conference

  27. Using Technology To Help The Disabled

    Exploiting technology to help the disabled to improve their opportunities

  28. Keeping An Eye On Tuberculosis

    Tuberculosis, tips on talking about cancer; reports from Zambia on why dry sex is bad sex

  29. The Telemedicine Revolution

    The importance of selenium and how medical knowledge can be improved using telemedicine

  30. The Battle To Ban Cigarette Advertising

    A report on smoking and tobacco advertising across the world

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