Abstract: Balance, touch, eyesight--all perfectly co-ordinated by the brain, that compact bundle of neurons that controls our m...
Abstract: For medicine, death is the latest frontier to conquer, and the achievements of medical technology have been extraordi...
Abstract: Each year over 250,000 young people from newborn to 17-year-olds are burned severely enough to require medical attent...
Abstract: Tonight we'll look at some facts and meets around aging. One thing we do know is that aging is a process that begins ...
Abstract: Bald is beautiful. Try telling that to an estimated 50 million men in the united states with some degree of hereditar...
Abstract: There are 5 billion human faces on earth. What they are doing much of the time is looking intently at other faces. As...
Abstract: Ecstasy, a "party drug", it's also called "E" for short. After using it, people will feel everything so amiable, you ...
Abstract: Stress has been called the eoidemic of our century, and no wonder. It's been imolicated in neariv every disease we kn...
Abstract: The difference in colour reflects different types of fibre that make up the muscle. The individual fibres can be seen...
Abstract: Diabetics affects over 18 million North Americans. It's a disease which can lead to blindness, amputation, kidney fai...
Abstract: Women who starve themselves to extreme thinness and sometimes to death may be driven as much by their genes as by soc...
Abstract: Across the world, science is closing in on the genetic causes of schizophrenia. Hearing voices or hallucinations is a...
Abstract: What can be done about cardiovascular disease? With an x-ray camera to guide him, the surgeon feeds a catheter into t...
Abstract: Some people are, for some reason, just extremely unlucky. They are blighted with life threatening diseases or acciden...
Abstract: Imaging being in bedroom for months, even years with the condition no one can explain. Having an illness for which th...
Abstract: North Americans have gone vitamin crazy, shaking up old ideas about how to stay healthy as well as how to have fun. T...
Abstract: Today's war against disease is a new kind of battle: despite decades of intense research, scientists still lack the w...
Abstract: We spend billions a year fighting fat. But are we fighting our own genome? If we can find genes that contribute to th...
Abstract: Biological warfare was an ominous specter in America throughout the Cold War, but pretty safely kept under wraps by b...
Abstract: Welcome to Secrets of the Sequence. The world health organization says ten million people around the world die each y...