Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the S...
Crippled children, blue and breathless with congenital heart disease, were sent home to die. Operating on the inside of the heart was...
From the Amazon to churches in the US and the slums of Delhi, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.
By the early 1970s, surgeons were riding the crest of a wave. But controversy and uncertainty surrounded one of the commonest ope...
Richard Herrick, a young man dying of kidney disease, is about to make medical history. Surgeons will save his life by transplanting ...
This prog looks at the relationship between medicine and war. Does war help or hinder medicine? Surviving records from WWI help us to unde...
Christiaan Barnard became the most famous surgeon in the world by successfully transplanting a human heart. Yet so disastrous were the...
Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination...
For the greater part of the twentieth century, polio spread panic throughout the Western world and caused paralysis in its v...
The story of the birth of the NHS, revealing how close its opponents came to defeating it and why the some of the fiercest opposition came fro...
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