Interviews about Medicine

The humble pea is something of a wonder plant, we all like to think – for one thing, it adds nitrogen back into the...

Meera Senthilingam brings us the highlights of this years Cambridge Science Festival...

We discover a way to read a person’s thoughts using a brain scanner...

Researchers have identified how a hand held magnetic device could mitigate the pain of migraine...

It's been 10 years since Dr Chris and Dr Kat first appeared on the radio! Listen back to some clips of that first...

Can plastics pollute your body? We speak to Tamara Galloway who has identified a link between heart disease and...

How do hormones, like oestrogen, affect aqatic ecosystems? Professor Karen Kidd explains more...

Researchers at Cambridge’s Babraham Institute have identified a factor that helps to stop nerves from degenerating....

Virtual Reality is a computer simulated version of the real world. Meera Senthilingam has been exploring the use of...

Karen steel discusses the genetic mutations and changes that can impair our hearing...

A deaf person's brain uses many of the same systems and pathways to understand sign language as a hearing person...

Bob Carlyon explores the illusory side of our hearing...

Ian McKay discusses the differences between the bone in our limbs and our skull...

Dr John Brackenbury gets out his scalpel to reveal what the inner anatomical workings of a cooked chicken...

Where do new pandemic strains of influenza come from? Canberra-based virologist Adrian Gibbs wonders whether swine flu...

How are 'flu vaccines prepared, how long does it take and how is the technology evolving?

Nigel Dimmock discusses a new anti-influenza strategy - a virus that protects you from infection...

Henrik Øren discusses a potential new drug to stop Hepatitis C in its tracks...

Joe Grove discusses the sneaky ways the Hepatitis C virus evades our immune system...

Meera Senthilingam investigates how safe the blood we receive in transfusions really is...

Graeme Alexander explains the effects of Hepatitis C on the body adn the current methods of treatment against the virus...

Jan Arthur discusses how her team find new viruses by analysing faecal samples...

We find out about one of the world's few degrees where drinking and making wine are the main things on the agenda...

We discover the health benefits of cereals rich in polysaccharides...