Health Matters Episodes Episode guide
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Eat Greek For A Long And Healthy Life
Eating Greek for a long life, how longer living affects our health and dementia explored
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Coping With The Loss Of A Child
A special edition of the programme looks at bereavement involving the loss of a child
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The Best Way To Treat Breast Cancer
New breast cancer treatments, spiders and surgeons, help for parents of premature babies
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How Being Male Can Damage Your Health
The health risks of being a man, the cancer message and attitudes to medical advances
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How Safe Are Contraceptives?
Contraceptive safety, an operation to cure blindness and science meets art
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Poverty And Ill Health
The blood disorder thalassaemia and the growing health gap between rich and poor
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South African AIDS Patients Get Raw Deal
Olympic champions, AIDS testing in South Africa, polio in Indonesia; and deadly viruses
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How Eye Movements Are Easing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Treating post-traumatic stress with eye movement, and boosting complementary medicine
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The Placebo Effect
The placebo effect, AIDS in Thailand and stories from operating theatres around the world
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Finding And Treating Cancer
The programme looks at discovering and dealing with cancer
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How Medicines Really Work
Implementing evidence-based medicine in developing countrie
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Could AZT Help Treat AIDS?
How the drug AZT is helping fight AIDS, upside-down cure for vertigo and treating ulcers
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Medical Books Reviewed
The Royal Society of Medicine's encyclopedia and other health books reviewed
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Alternatives To Blood Transfusion
Blood transfusions, a brain-scanning helmet and oxygen chambers
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Report from Amsterdam on the study of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Euthanasia - a special debate
Discussing the morals of mercy-killing and assisted suicide
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Drug Misuse Among Children
A look at the misuse of legal and illegal drugs by young people
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Japanese Pregnancy - Traditions And Practices
Japanese pregnancies, relief work in Afghanistan and a diet to help the malnourished
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Is Music Therapeutic?
Healing music, obsessive compulsive disorder and treating excessive facial hair
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The Limb Loss Legacy Of Land Mines
Curing blindness, saving feet and limb loss through mine explosions
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Heart Disease - The World's Biggest Killer
Worms, athlete's foot and one of the world's biggest killers - heart disease
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Is It Worth Treating Haemophilia?
Treating haemophilia and kidney disease, and a new type of dental drill
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Helping The Children Of Rwanda
Help for those who have lost mobility, parents or their youth
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Treating HIV And AIDS
Practical facts we need to know about AIDS and the HIV virus
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How Gene Therapy Is Transforming Lives
How gene therapy is transforming lives
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A Visit To Los Angeles County Medical Center - Leading Trauma Centre
The programme visits America's largest trauma centre, which is in Los Angeles
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A Visit To The Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland
The programme visits the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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Cancer - Fact And Fiction
Cancer, fact and fiction around the disease is explored
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More Than A Third of The World's Population Is Sick - WHO
WHO's first annual survey, controlling river blindness and tuberculosis in Siberia
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Educating Zambians About Nutrition
Increasing awareness of nutrition and heatlh is vital for improving health of Zambians
