Medical matters

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A playlist about all things medical - from ground-breaking research to pioneering surgery - and what really happens when you die.
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What's the point of pain?
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How DNA's discovery changed the world - and my life
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A brief history of Viagra
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Why can’t I remember people’s faces?
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Five things you probably didn’t know about periods
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Could artificial wombs mean the end of childbirth?
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What would a world without antibiotics be like?
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What would a world without vaccines be like?
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Should human kidneys be bought and sold?
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The curious history of filming the sneeze
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How one woman's 'immortal' cells changed the world
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The story of the killer disease humanity eradicated
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Why do some people become addicts and not others?
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What dying taught me
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Where do phobias come from?
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How do doctors and nurses cope when a patient dies?
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What would Florence Nightingale make of big data?
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Are you going to the toilet wrong?
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The curious world of blood
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'Dying is not as bad as you think'
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Why is the common cold so hard to cure?
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Why baldness is so hard to cure
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4:48
Is it OK for doctors to cry?
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How one woman transformed Alzheimer’s research
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The vision that will save thousands of new mothers
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The doctor who pioneered water births
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When the heart was deemed too sacred to operate on
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