Interviews about Medicine

Foetal nerve grafts persist in Parkinson's patients for decades...

Could sleep help you boost your learning power? Nerve cells in the brains of mice grow new connections as they sleep....

What exactly is going on in the teenage brain? We uncover the risky, moody behaviour associated with the adolescent...

Can computer games boost memory? Are there tricks to help people with ADHD or dyslexia? And what does anxiety do to...

How do children learn about physics and scientific reasoning? And do those with autism learn about the world in a...

How do we learn new words? Can babies learn language from inside the womb? At what age can we first understand grammar?

Richard O'Connor hides toys from tots to explore how babies' brains develop learning and memory skills...

How genetics are used to screen embryo's for disease, could couples create designer babies, and should the...

With more and more people getting their DNA sequenced, Yaniv Erlich from MIT discusses how to keep the data private.

How do developing countries gain access to treatments? And why do drugs cost so much in the first place?

In the UK our National Health Service has limits on its budgets. How do we decide which treatments we can afford to...

Billions of bugs are already on and inside a baby within the first few days of life - but where do they come from? We...

Conditions are predicted to reach fever pitch at the World Cup in Brazil, with fears over Dengue fever outbreak.

The science of how DJ's mix seamlessly so that we can dance through tune transitions

Getting us to grips with this often misunderstood condition here’s the Naked Scientists Quick Fire Science, I’m joined...

Researchers have developed a test that uses the levels of gene activity to spot women who are about to deliver their...

A new study has shown that women in their second trimester may be at a 40% higher risk of being involved in life-...

Given there is no biological treatment available, how best to help those children affected by autism, both at school...

Debunking the myth environmental pollutants play a role, asking how testosterone shapes the brain in the womb, and...

To find out how this very heterogenous condition affects one person, I spoke with 27 year old Robyn Steward.

Why are US company Pfizer so interested in acquiring the UK pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, and is it a bad thing...

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus seems to be spreading from Saudi Arabia, with nearly 500 people...

A protein that regulates metabolism in worms also helps to protect them from the effects of ageing.

Learning more about the genes that allow flatworms to regenerate organs and tissue after amputation.