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How the oldest people on the planet are helping scientists to unlock the secrets of ageing
12 Aug 2009,·30 mins
Episode 2
Winifred Robinson visits the isolation facilities available for patients in Holland.
19 Feb 2007,·30 mins
Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs is drying up.
22 May 2012,·38 mins
How neursocience is heading for the classroom.
29 Mar 2010,·30 mins
What can we learn about the body by experiencing it through the senses of artists?
22 Jun 2017,·30 mins
Healing in Ghana
What options do people in Ghana have when a person suffers mental illness?
20 Jun 2016,·28 mins
The NHS is paying people to be healthy. But does it really work? Claudia Hammond reports.
26 Oct 2010,·30 mins
Raymond Tallis describes how the act of waiting pervades so much of our daily lives.
20 Aug 2014,·30 mins
How vet Adam Tjolle's life has changed since his brain tumour surgery.
17 Sep 2019,·28 mins
Andrew Brown investigates the frontier of our knowledge about new brain cells.
18 Jul 2007,·30 mins
Philippa Perry explores whether we're in a new age of emotion.
18 Aug 2017,·30 mins
When are mentally ill patients really free to make decisions about their treatment?
22 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Vivienne Parry explores how patients are taking control of their own treatment.
16 Sep 2014,·28 mins
Ken Arnold explores how three European countries variously tell the history of madness.
04 Mar 2013,·28 mins
How a Buddhist meditation technique became a cure-all for the ills of modern life.
11 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Phil Hammond explores the consequences of human error in the medical profession.
11 Aug 2008,·30 mins
A doctor and their patient come together to tell the story of a single diagnosis.
07 Jan 2020,·28 mins
As Dr Mark Porter's waistline increases, he puts his body mass index, or BMI, to the test.
11 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Mukti Jain Campion explores the surprising origins of modern yoga practice.
17 Jun 2016,·30 mins
Claudia Hammond investigates the science of face recognition.
25 Jan 2010,·30 mins
Mukti Jain Campion asks why India's people have virtually no access to medical morphine.
03 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Sally Marlow turns to science to find out why so many people in Britain are addicted.
24 Sep 2019,·28 mins
