Interviews about Medicine

On the 6th March 1899, the Beyer pharmaceutical company officially registered Aspirin as a trademark, following their...

Aspirin was touted originally as treatment for pain; but, 100 years on, we now know it’s much more powerful than that...

It’s estimated that 80% of us will suffer from a bad back at some time in our lives, but the condition is hard to treat...

There are 206 bones in the average adult human, but how do our bones grow and develop and what controls how strong they...

Every year, about 75,000 people suffer a hip fracture in the UK and a majority of those will be down to the condition...

When muscles are injured or weakened, patients are usually referred to a physiotherapist for help, regaining their...

When someone loses a limb, although it's possible to replace the missing part with a prosthesis, making it move is...

If you're a big fan of eating oily fish then you're probably doing your eye sight a big long term favour,...

Scientists at the University of Sydney have used a safe electrical technique to boost our problem-solving abilities...

Charles cockell explains how microbes are eating away at out coastline...

New research sheds light on how some bacteria are capable of extremely quick genetic change, incorporating whole...

Leprosy is caused by an infection of Mycobacterium bacteria, the same family as the pathogens that cause TB. Most...

To help us understand leprosy, it’s important to look into the past and see what evidence we can find from when and...

Researchers at Imperial College in London have discovered an unusual process which is happening in a contagious form of...

Meera and Dave explore how PET and MRI scanners can combine to give a better look at what's going on inside us....

Many of us have a certain piece of music that causes chills to run up our spines - music so good, it elicits a genuine...

Scientists at Bangor University in North Wales have found that different species of deadly viper snakes, tailor their...

For thousands of years, people have been studying and documenting human anatomy. In these days, we do it to turn out...

A new film by New Zealand-based physician, Paul Trotman about what happens to a person's body when they donate it...

Peter Kristensen and his team took on the myth that you can get drunk through your feet and reveal their findings...

Alzheimer's disease is a common cause of cognitive decline among elderly people. An estimated one in every five...

In this week’s episode of Planet Earth we’re looking at one of Britain's best loved mammals, the elusive red...

The discovery of bacteria that can not only survive in waters rich in toxic arsenic, but actually use it as part of it...

Wednesday, December the 1st is going to be World Aids Day and 2011 actually marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery...