Defeating superbugs | Dara O’Briain’s Science Club

2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...

1: Pain | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at th...

James Simpson discovers chloroform | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley investigates the discovery of chloroform.

The dangers of chloroform | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley discusses the early deaths that exposed the dangers of chloroform.

Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...

Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health? | Panorama

Ultra-processed foods contain chemicals that regulators say are safe, but there is emerging evidence of a link betw...

Viruses and vaccines | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

The discovery of vaccines has helped scientists to tackle a variety of viruses.

1: Vaccines | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the smallp...

2: Medical Drugs | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How knowledge gained from the discovery o...

3: Data | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. Before a vaccine or an effective treatment can com...

3: Poison | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cur...

4: Behaviour | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the readiness of communities to engage wi...

A bacterial infection | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.

An introduction to phagocytes | Inside the Human Body

Michael Mosley looks at how white blood cells, called phagocytes, fight bacteria inside our blood.

Antibacterial resistance | Bang Goes the Theory

A demonstration of how bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics.

Antibiotic Resistance | The Truth About…

Angela Rippon gives a brief introduction to the antibiotic resistance crisis.

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria as evidence for evolution | Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs

Michael Mosley explains how bacteria can naturally evolve to be resistant to an...

Antibiotics | The Truth About...

Documentary in which Angela Rippon looks into the new ways that scientists are trying to fight bacterial infections, as they try to combat a...

Antibodies and vaccines | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains what an antibody is and how they relate to getting vaccinated.

Body Snatchers

Science series revealing secrets of parasites. Tanya discovers a living maggot in her scalp, Mike deliberately grows a tapeworm in his gut and Dr. Valerie tel...