The jab : National Science Week.

Date:
1997
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Series of news items reporting on developments in science and medicine. Prof. Howard Jacobs, Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology at the University College London Medical School, talks about reproductive medicine and fertility treatment. Dr Macnair visits the Old Operating Theatre Museum in London where she is shown the operating table and told about the gruesome way a doctor would flush out bladderstones from inside the patient. Peter Finegold of the Wellcome Trust talks about hands-on brain experiments in the Neuroscience '97 exhibition. Claudia Hammond talks to Prof. David Sackett at the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford. He is trying to help doctors to be more certain about the medicine they prescribe. There is also an item on the new drug, 'pulmozyme', which can bring dramatic improvements in a patient's respiratory function.

Publication/Creation

London : BBC Radio 5, 1997.

Physical description

1 sound cassette (30 min.)

Notes

Broadcast on 16 March 1997

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr Trisha Macnair. Featuring Prof. Howard Jacobs; Peter Finegold; Prod. David Sackett; Clive James.

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BBC Radio

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