Health Matters Episodes Episode guide
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Burns - Treating Them And Avoiding Them
A report on burns, how to avoid them, how to treat them and how they change lives
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Medicine - What Are The Alternatives?
An exploration into the place and role of alternative medicine
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Ridding The World Of Polio
An investigation into the obstacles to achieving the complete elimination of polio
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Special Report - Treating AIDS
A report into issues of accessibility, transmission, prevention and treatment for HIV/AIDS
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Special Report - Malaria
A special report on malaria, 100 years after first attempts to eradicate the disease
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Nourishing The Mothers And Children Of The World
Feeding mums to be, a cooking bus for children, and the use of growth charts
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Gene Therapy Success For Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's gene therapy, sleeping sickness diagnosis, asthma triggers and treatments
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HIV And Dementia
HIV and dementia, the conflict in Iraq and its children, washing hands, good bacteria
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Polio Returns To Botswana
Polio returns to Botswana, palm oil to treat blindness and fasting if you are diabetic
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Death On The Roads - Driving Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ The Message
An investigation into whether road safety campaigns really work
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Death On The Roads
An hour-long special on car crashes, and the increasing numbers of those killed
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Later Life - Part 4
A series of programmes on later life- how we can expect to be treated if we reach old age?
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Later Life - Part 3
Part of series looking at later life, this week examines how ageing affects men and women
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Later Life - Part 2
Part of a series exploring the physical and emotional events we experience in later life
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Later Life - Part 1
Part of a series exploring the physical and emotional events we experience in later life
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The First South African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights
Conference on sexual health in South Africa, and getting young people to talk about sex
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Could Heavy Use of Antibiotics Cause Breast Cancer?
Cancer and antibiotics, the final push against polio, and rats used to fight tuberculosis
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Treating Children With Cancer
Childhood cancer in the developing world, and overcoming Down's Syndrome prejudice
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Health Screening Of Migrants To The UK
Down's Syndrome update, and controversy over the compulsory screening of UK immigrants
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The Asian Bird Flu Outbreak - Developing A Vaccine
Asian bird flu outbreak, who benefits from clinical drug trials and research serendipity
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The Body Mass Index Debate
BMI debate, traditional healthcare stereotypes and a look at kangaroo care
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New And Old Infectious Diseases
A report on the spread of infectious diseases, malaria, polio, sleeping sickness and SARS
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The Aftermath Of The Iranian Earthquake
Iranian earthquake, saving a child's life, a code of practice for UK assisted conceptions
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A Guide To Hepatitis
A report about the hepatitis virus which has five variants, A, B, C, D and E
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Do We Need Medical Jargon?
An investigation into the debate over medical jargon and whether it is necessary
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Developing Drugs For Neglected Diseases
Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDI),obstetric fistula, foetal alcohol syndrome
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Ebola - An Outbreak In The Congo
A report on the ebola outbreak in Congo and a global re-emergence of rickets
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Should Organ Selling Be Legalised?
Legalised organ selling, health effects of the war in Uganda, and dancing off illness
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HIV In China
A report on the HIV and AIDS situation in China where discrimination is rife
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HIV/AIDS In Russia
A report on what Russia is doing in the fight against HIV and AIDS