Antibiotics have revolutionized the practice of medicine. The magic bullets have been used to fight the bacteria that cause many of man's ill including veneral disease, tuberculosis, stomach uler, mastoiditis and other common infections. However, bacteria that once yielded so quickly to these wonder drugs have learned to resist the antibiotic onslaught. Today, infections that were once easily cured are not responding to the usual treatments. We have abused antibiotics to the point where we must now go back to the lab and begin research to develop a whole new generation of drugs. Also explores the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the possible side effects it has on new strains of resistant bacteria. Includes looking at some of the new uses that are being found for the most important weapon ever developed for medicine arsenal.

Program examines various aspects of aphrodisiacs and their use to enhance sexual desire and performance. Includes the history, scientific research, and personal narratives related to all types of aphrodisiacs and their effectiveness.

The digestive tract is a hugely complex arrangement of organs working together in harmony to give your body all the benefits it needs from the food we eat and to protect us from harmful bugs and bacteria. By looking at a typical American family we are able to see how lifestyle, fast foods and work dictate what we eat, how we eat and therefore how well our digestive system works. Eddie the Enzyme pops up with step by step advice, on the do's and don'ts of good digestion. With him and the help of an expert nutritionist we explain precisely what food makes for good digestion.

For many years the umbilical cord and placenta were seen as medical waste. But now their life-saving potential has caused a sensation throught the medical community. Cord blood is rich in stem cells, which can replace defective blood. Thid film follows the patients whose lives have been saved by the cord blood of donor babies.

Ocean in every 100,000 births, parents and doctors are presented with one of natures greatest challenges. Twins are born, to joined together. What causes twins to be born this way? What can Doctors do to help them? And what are the prospects for spend their lives joined together? This documentary, filmed in the USA, South Africa, Russia and Poland, tells the story of some of the most dramatic recent separations of conjoined twin babies - and interviews adult twins who remained conjoined.

Panorama has been given exclusive access to the largest ever study of so-called "miracle babies". Babies born at less than 26 weeks gestation, who owe their lives entirely to modern medicine. The findings of the study raise complex questions about the purpose of neonatal intensive care and the sanctity of life. Has the time come for doctors to stop their heroic attempts to save the smallest babies, in order to concentrate on those more likely to survive "intract:.

The mosquito used to be thought of as a mere nuisance until, in Victorian times, it was revealed that they were the ultimate killing machine, spreading the sometimes fatal disease of malaria. A century on, Horizon traces the astonishing war on the insect that this discovery unleashed, and how the mosquito and malaria have returned, increasingly immune to man's chemical weapons and spreading once more. Determined and seemingly unstoppable, together mosquitos and malaria are nature's deadliest partnership.

Because of Economy class syndrome, a bride-to-be from Newport in South Wales collapsed and died from a blood clot moments after walking off a long haul flight from Melbourne, Australia. Emma Christoffersen was diagnosed as having suffered a pulmonary embolus brought on by the immobility associated with long hyaul travel or flight-related Deep Vein Thrombosis. The airlines argue that this condition is rare and certainly not exclusive to air travel. But leading vascular surgeon, John Scurr, announced to the medical world that roughly one in 100 air passengers probably develop blood clots while flying long haul. Reporter Andy Davies investiges how the issue of DVT has been handled by the aviation industry.

Explores what's happening in our bodies when we are happy. Studies the chemical reaction going on in the brain.

One of the world's top paleontologists discusses paleontological evidence that contradicts myths about the feared Tyrannosaurus rex. Jack Horner says T. rex was not a hunter at all. The fiercest giant of dinosaur lore was but a well-designed scavenger that had much more in common with buzzards and hyenas than with lions and tigers. Includes computer-generated T-Rexes in action.