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By Dr Cathy Lloyd (The Open University)

27 February 2012

How did 'scientific medicine' come to be the dominant method of health studies in the western world?  Read more : What is biomedicine?

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Medical migrationLjupco Smokovski | Dreamstime.com

By Health Check on BBC World Service (The Open University)

06 April 2011

Programme three asks why are doctors leaving and what is the government doing to keep medics in Ethiopia?  Read more : Medical migration

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OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgeryBy Tacit Requiem via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

By The Ethics Committee web team (The Open University)

03 August 2010

Episode 3: An NHS surgeon is treating more and more obese patients whose private treatment has gone wrong. What should he do?  Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgery

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OU on the BBC: Inside the Ethics Committee 2010 - Mentally ill and refusing surgeryBy Mike Lacon via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

By The Ethics Committee web team (The Open University)

20 July 2010

Episode 1: John has cancer of the voice box so removing his voice box could save his life, but he is refusing to go ahead  Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside the Ethics Committee 2010 - Mentally ill and refusing surgery

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By Deborah Brunton (The Open University)

26 May 2010

Senior lecturer Deborah Brunton turns back the clock and reveals the scientific advances 100 years ago that have helped shape the way we fight disease...  Read more : Bodies of knowledge

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By The Ethics Committee web team (The Open University)

13 July 2009

Joan Bakewell profiles more cases where the right thing isn't always obvious.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee

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Herbal medicineProduction team

By Calder Bendle (Guest)

02 February 2009

Caldar Bendle gives an overview of herbal medicine, its history and its role in medicine today.  Read more : Herbal medicine

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Fluorescence imagingDreamstime

By Dr James Bruce (The Open University)

09 December 2008

James Bruce describes how a natural fluorescent molecule, green fluorescent protein can highlight what is going on inside living cells  Read more : Fluorescence imaging

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The drug story: Beta interferonProduction team

By The Open Minds team (The Open University)

11 September 2008

The Open Minds programme explores 'the drug story: beta interferon'.  Read more : The drug story: Beta interferon

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The drug story: ViagraProduction team

By The Open Minds team (The Open University)

09 September 2008

The Open Minds programme explores 'the drug story: Viagra'  Read more : The drug story: Viagra

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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