Are Women the Fitter Sex? • 2021

117:55

Filmed over six years following a group of volunteers with Parkinson's disease as they take part in a ground-breaking medical trial to test a new drug that could be the first to halt progression or even reverse their condition.

2019 • Health

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Benjamin Woolley presents the gripping story of Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century radical pharmacist who took on the establishment in order to bring medicine to the masses. Culpeper lived during one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. When the country was ravaged by famine and civil war, he took part in the revolution that culminated in the execution of King Charles I. But it is Culpeper's achievements in health care that made him famous. By practicing (often illegally) as a herbalist and publishing the first English-language texts explaining how to treat common ailments, he helped to break the monopoly of a medical establishment that had abandoned the poor and needy. His book The English Physician became the most successful non-religious English book of all time, remaining in print continuously for more than 350 years.

2007 • Health

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Good to know as you travel to the Antipodes - Australia has the most venomous snakes and spiders in the world. But, if you’re bitten, can you rely on anti-venom? Dr Graham Phillips investigates the effectiveness of anti-venom.

3/10 • Catalyst: Season 1 • 2015 • Health

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DNA testing is becoming more and more common. People are making important health and life decisions based off this data, despite these tests being largely inaccurate.

S1E3 • A User's Guide to Cheating Death • 2017 • Health

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Frontline documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.

2 • The Virus That Shocked the World PBS FRONTLINE • 2021 • Health

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Michael Mosley takes a journey around the human body, putting his own to the test to help viewers understand their own. Chapter 1: Michael meets tremors-sufferer Thomas who is about to undergo pioneering brain surgery, and Allen, who finds out if his experimental cancer treatment has been a success. Chapter 2: Michael heads to Snowdonia, on a mission to demonstrate what stress does inside all our bodies, and in Durham, cameras reveal that we all possess an incredible hidden ability. Plus, a woman explains how she learned to see again by using echolocation. Chapter 3: Michael meets a community group in Glasgow, and reveals the best way to keep our brains young as we age. At Royal Papworth Hospital, cameras follow a life-saving procedure to treat Clifford, who has developed dangerous blood clots in his lungs. And a woman shares the secret of how she is long-distance running well into her seventies.

2024 • Health