Interviews about Medicine

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

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...

This weekend saw the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham, and our very own Kat Arney went along...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women under 25 and 70% of cases are caused by a family of viruses...

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

Immunotherapy, using the body's own immune cells to attack a tumour, could provide an alternative to radiotherapy...

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

DNA damage leads to many of the diseases we associate with ageing, so if we could stop DNA from being damaged, or...

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

You may be surprised to hear that some very simple lifestyle changes can extend your life by 14 years! We find out how...

We know that antibodies must pass from breastmilk to baby's blood, but only now have scientists watched one in the...

Clostridium difficile bacteria account for many cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, and currently causes 7000...

Some bacteria sense an immune response, and then become hyper-virulent. This means that treatment with antibiotics...

The bacterium MRSA has been the big villain of hospital acquired infections – it’s resistant to common antibacterial...

In some cases, the human heart can be 'pre-conditioned', and as such can withstand the damage of a heart...

Trawl fishing involved hauling a net behind a boat, and is extremely good for catching large numbers of fish. However...

People have long suspected that drinking alcohol makes people seem more attractive, but now, scientists at Bristol...

Age-related Macular Degeneration, or AMD, remains the most common cause of blindness in the UK, with little hope for...