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COI synopsis: Vicki Luke reports on the Kidney Transplant Service, which can instantly match a newly available kidney with a patient not just anywhere in Britain, but in Europe too. The UK transplant service...
COI synopsis: Jogging, gyms, dance centres - we’ve all gone fitness mad. In Britain, everyone from overweight businessmen to typists in their lunch hours has caught the disease. Vicki Luke visits some of...
NoS synopsis: Tells the story of the Peruvian boy, David Lopez, terribly disfigured by disease, who was brought 5,000 miles to the Cannisburn Hospital in Glasgow for treatment by plastic surgeon Ian Jackson.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Medical Pictures Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: A collection of Anatomical Illustrations on display at London’s Science Museum, the pictures date from 1896. SHOTLIST: CU ‘Medical Picture...
COI synopsis: There’s a particularly nasty blood disease among horses, called navicular disease. It causes veins in the navicular bone to proliferate, weakening it structurally, with resulting lameness. A...
COI synopsis: Mrs Mullen suffers from a stomach disorder. Blood vessels on the wall of her stomach periodically burst, causing massive haemorrhages. Her case was once considered hopeless, but doctors at a...
COI synopsis: Novel forms of photography that are making our society safer, is the theme of this week’s programme. Infra-red cameras, activated by heat rather than light. Image intensifiers that can boost...
COI synopsis: Although walking on two legs raises us above the apes, it distorts the natural shape of the spine - and backache plagues four out of five people at some time in their lives. A good bed can...
COI synopsis: The computer age has joined forces with medicine - giving instant access to a vast store of medical records and diagnostic experience. The computer has become an invaluable back-up service for...
COI synopsis: How did you - how did any of us as children - learn to make sense of the world? How did we, alone within our own minds, ever create order out of the jumble around us? How did our unaided minds...
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