Interviews about Medicine

Measuring changes in body temperature can give you vital hints as to when to conceive. We find out about a new...

We talk to Julian Norman-Taylor about In Vitro Fertilization, what it is, and when it can be used.

We look at some refinements to IVF, controlling the environment of the embryos more carefully.

This week's Kitchen Science requires no equipment - just you, your brain and your arms!

Ed Wild explores how understanding our bodies immune response to huntington's disease could help develop a...

David Wraith explains how we may be able to damp down Multiple Sclerosis by de-sensitizing our immune system...

Professor Julie Williams and her team at Cardiff University recently discovered a pair of genes that seem to be linked...

Laura Soul investigates the effects of reaching high altitudes with Andrew Murray...

Our own Kat Arney reports from the National Cancer Research Institute Annual Conference in Birmingham...

Proton therapy - a type of radiotherapy using beams of charged ions to target tumours, could avoid some of the...

Stem cells are known for their ability to regenerate and differentiate to form lots of the cells in our bodies. But as...

Breast cancer is still the most common cancer in the UK and it affects around 45,000 women and around 300 men every...

Is it possible to fix a broken heart with stem cells?

How many licks does it take to eat a lollipop? How many ants would you need to carry a person? Aaron Santos' new...

This week in science history saw, in 1897, Felix Hoffman first synthesise a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid for...

And now for the first chapter in a new series we're introducing on the show over the summer called Chemistry in...

Many people manage to get pregnant doing it nature’s way. But some people need a little bit of medical help and that’s...

We've now heard how you can test embryos for vital clues as to which ones are probably the healthiest and...

Pregnant women are advised to eat well, to lay off the booze, not to smoke and to take it easy and put their feet up....

Information is constantly going into the brain, but how does it decide what to pay attention to and what to ignore? We...

The brain's processing of visual input is complex, we find out how optical illusions and bees are helping us...

This week in science history saw, in 1869, the birth of Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won a Nobel Prize for...

Biodynamic pest control on organic farms

Dr Joe Grove explains why World Hepatitis Day is so important, as one in 12 people worldwide are living with the...