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Dying in Comfort in Mongolia
Anu Anand travels across the globe to investigate how different countries are tackling cancer, one of the world’s biggest killers.
In this firs...
Failing Gracefully
Dr Kevin Fong concludes his exploration of the boundaries between the medical profession and other industries for valuable lessons that might be of us...
Going Lean: Health and the Toyota Way
In the third programme in the series, Dr Kevin Fong explores the concept of ‘lean’ in healthcare. He visits Toyota’s largest car assembly plant in the...
“Faster, Better, Cheaper”
Dr Kevin Fong continues to explore the boundaries between the medical profession and other industries for valuable lessons that might be of use to us...
The Business of Failure
In a new four-part series for BBC World Service and The Open University, broadcaster and medic Dr Kevin Fong explores what healthcare can learn from o...
AIDS in the Philippines
Dr Margarita Holmes is one of the best-known advisers on sex and relationships in the Philippines, drawing on her extensive clinical experience as a p...
AIDS in Uganda
Dr Peter Mugyenyi runs one of Africa’s largest HIV medical research institutes, the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Kampala, which he helped to foun...
AIDS in Russia and Australia
Former UK Health Secretary Norman Fowler continues his investigation into what works and what does not when it comes to reducing the rate of HIV/Aids....
AIDS in Britain and America
Former UK Health Secretary Lord Fowler focuses on his own experience. When the virus hit Britain, and despite opposition from then Prime Minister Marg...
The Fight Against Aids
Tony Fauci looks back at the scientific breakthroughs that have transformed HIV/Aids from a death sentence to a disease that can now be treated and pr...
The Truth About Diabetes Debate
A one-off special panel discussion on one of the world’s most complex and devastating food issues: diabetes.
Presenter Anu Anand is joi...
Diabetes: Sugar, Death and Taxes
Mexicans are the world’s biggest consumers of fizzy drinks, many argue that Mexicans are quite simply addicted to them. They are part of daily life. B...
Diabetes: Challenge in the Bronx
Smitha Mundasad visits the Bronx in New York City, one of North America’s poorest and most diverse boroughs. Type 2 diabetes is now so common here tha...
Diabetes: Nothing Good to Eat
The tiny, idyllic Pacific islands which make up the Kingdom of Tonga are setting for an unlikely and acute health crisis. With around 90% of Tongans o...
Diabetes: South Asia Time Bomb
Type 2 diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions around the world, and South Asia is at its epicentre.
Presenter Anu Anand travels to Sri Lank...
Life and Death: Bereavement Without a Body
For a loved one to die is devastating enough. But to lose those closest to us in war or conflict, and not to know where they are or how they died, com...
Life and Death: When Are we Dead?
Huge advances in technology now mean people can be kept alive longer, blurring the boundary between life and death. This intensifies the dilemmas for...
Life and Death: What is Killing Us?
The truth about mortality is that, when it comes to global figures, it is not known what people die of because more than half of the deaths in the wor...
Life and Death: Babies' Minds
Tiny babies are, from birth, active learners. They don’t wait for the world to come to them. Claudia Hammond explores the very latest research about w...
Life and Death: Born Too Soon
The first 24 hours are the most crucial in their survival for the 15 million premature babies born every year. And the stark truth is that survival de...
Life and Death: Fertility on a Shoestring
Claudia Hammond exposes a hidden problem which occurs before life has even begun. Nosiphiwo was ostracised by her husband’s family in South Africa aft...
Mental Health: Hikikomori
In Japan hundreds of thousands of young people withdraw from society for years or even decades.
They are known as hikikomori and Claudia Hammond...
Mental Health: Treatment Gap
If you have a mental health problem, where you live in the world makes a big difference to the care you receive. In many lower and middle income count...
Mental Health: Healing Norway
July 22, 2011 has been described as the day Norway cried. After detonating a car bomb in Oslo, killing eight and injuring many more, Anders Breivik to...
Mental Health: Four Walls
Solitary confinement is a form of torture that undermines identity and mental health. In “The Truth About Mental Health - Four Walls” Claudia Hammond...
Mental Health: Children and War
It's a common misconception that children, unlike adults, are so resilient that they can bounce back from the emotional and psychological impact of wa...
Mental Health: Mad or Sad
From time to time we all find ourselves in some kind of emotional turmoil. But when do everyday anxieties or unusual thoughts tip over into a mental...