Interviews about Medicine

Professor Jane McKeating takes us through the science of hepatitis, from it's discovery in the 1980s through to...

At the end of World Hepatitis Day, Jules - a hepatitis C patient for over 20 years - regarded the researchers as the...

Professor David Adams explains the types of hepatitis, and how they are treated...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1958, the publication of a significant paper that began the use of ultrasound as a...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1981, the publication of an article that was the first to describe a new endemic...

Julie Segre takes us on a tour of the diverse species of bacteria her team have discovered crawling over our skin.

Albinism - Why Some People have No Skin Pigmentation

Evolution of Skin Colours

Getting a scratch or cut in your skin usually means you have to put up with a scar later. But this may not be the case...

Curing Infant Jaundice

Biological Link between Cancer and Depression

It's estimated that 80% of people with hepatitis C aren't aware they have it. World Heptatitis Day is aimed...

People are concerned about swine influenza from Mexico but surely more answers than any can be obtained by sequencing...

Stephan Zielinski has made his own viral music from swine flu using a simple sequence of amino acids found in swine flu...

This week in science history saw, in 1878, Louis Pasteur give his important lecture on his evidence in support of ‘germ...

A new strain of swine flu seems to be spreading across the world - originating in Mexico. Paul Digard explains how pig...

This week in science history saw, in 1923, purified extracts of the hormone insulin being made widely available for the...

Childhood vaccination has seen tuberculosis all but wiped out in the UK, with cases few and far between. Not so in...

Richard Barnett takes us on a tour of some of the places, characters and events of medical London.

Vivian Nutton explains how medical discoveries and investigations were conducted over 1,800 years ago in the Classical...

Tilli Tansey takes us through the process of making medical history from the last century; including the breakthroughs...

Opthalmologist, Peter Watson, has taken a fresh look at portraits of Galileo which point to a swelling around his eye...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1993, the discovery by a team in America of the single gene involved in Huntington...

Writer of the DOS game Theme Park, Demis applies his programming techniques to understanding the mechanics of the human...