Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at th...
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How knowledge gained from the discovery o...
Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. Before a vaccine or an effective treatment can com...
Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cur...
A demonstration of how bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics.
Angela Rippon gives a brief introduction to the antibiotic resistance crisis.
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...
Looking for drugs to treat COVID-19, a team of scientists established one of...
Angela finds out about a novel machine that analyses your blood to determine if using antibiotics would be of ...
John Hunter conducted the first study of disease in a controlled experiment, w...
Emily talks about living on and off with a 'Superbug' that is resistant to many strains of an...
Documentary looking at the history of the laboratory mouse and its role in some of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century, from the develo...
Painkillers act at different points along the pain pathways to turn the pain response down.
Dr Michael Mosley discusses Robert Koch's cultivation of cholera bacteria.
The story of how Professor David Ho worked in a team to develop the firs...
The story and science behind Gertrude Elion and George Hitching's development of a revolut...
The story of how Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin.
How can the antibiotic resistance crisis be addressed? ...
Dr Michael Mosley discusses the Story of Louis Pasteur vaccinating Joseph Meister ag...
How and why penicillin was tested on mice to discover its uses.
The discovery of vaccines has helped scientists to tackle a variety of viruses.
Angela explains which types of antibiotics we use for different things. She also finds out about a method being trialed...
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