Interviews about Medicine

How can nanotechnology tell us about antibiotic resistant bacteria? - With tiny diving boards, of course...

Are overweight parents more likely to have obese children? It could be that a mother's diet has lifelong...

Liposuction may be the easiest way to lose weight quickly, though it's an expensive option. But how does it...

Obesity is a huge problem, but what makes us obese? Steve Bloom joins us from Imperial College London to explain why...

Next time you have a headache, don't take an aspirin - make your own! It seems that humans can manufacture their...

Does champagne go straight to your head? What is it about the bubbles that makes you get more drunk, more quickly?...

Earlier this year, a new and fatal strain of virus was discovered in South Africa after a patient was flown in from...

Understanding the origins of HIV will not only help us to find ways to treat the disease itself, but can also help us...

Predicting where in the world diseases are likely to emerge can help us prepare for them, and even try to prevent them...

Why do we blink? Dr Paul Murphy explains to Meera the importance of tears and blinking...

There are many, diverse causes of blindness, with Inherited Retinal Degeneration affecting one in 2000 people in the UK...

Optical Lens Replacement surgery can be used to treat cataracts, which affect millions of people worldwide. We find...

Firing lasers into your eyes sounds like a bad idea, but Laser Eye Surgery is a safe and effective option that could...

Do plants suffer from jetlag? We meet Steve Kay at UCSD, who invited us to his forest laboratory to explain how plants...

Can your friends, their friends, and even their friends' friends, boost your chances of becoming obese? James...

The Population Institute were our kind hosts in LA, but who are they, and what do they do? I spoke to Bill Ryerson,...

In place of this week's Kitchen Science experiment, Ben attended a National Pathology Week event run by the Royal...

A recent Pathology success story - the drug CamPath, which is also known as alemtuzumab and was originally developed at...

We go through the process of a real post mortem - working with pathologist Alison Cluroe, we find out what has to be...

the beer goggles, or stella-vision, is a well known phenomenon where a few alcoholic drinks makes other people seem...

Time to get your dancing shoes on! It seems that the way you dance could say something about your genetic fitness – in...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a debilitating condition where people who have been through nightmarish...

Could the credit crunch be due to traders' hormone levels? Meera speaks to John Coates to find out...

A new initiative funding research into cancer imaging could find new ways to spot cancer early, and better ways to...