Stories

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  A grown-up approach to treating anorexia

  Adults with anorexia often have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Carrie Arnold discovers how those same traits could help them escape it.

  29 March 2016

  • Mind, Mental health
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  How I manage my eating disorder

  Carrie Arnold shares her experience of more than 15 years of anorexia.

  28 March 2016

  • Mind, Mental health

• Roger Highfield on consciousness and coma

  Roger Highfield discusses consciousness, brain scanning and permanent vegetative state.

  24 March 2016

  • Mind, Neuroscience

• Making sense of miscarriage. A conversation with Holly Cave

  Miscarriage is an often under-reported and poorly understood subject that can be extremely traumatising for women and families. Hear from writer Holly Cave about how she made sense of her miscarriage.

  23 March 2016

  • Health, Body

• Psychedelic therapy: a conversation with Sam Wong

  Can psychedelic drugs like LSD and MDMA help patients going through mental health therapy? We speak to science journalist Sam Wong about this mind-bending topic.

  23 March 2016

  • Mind, Mental health

• The diet that can cure epilepsy

  A special diet for people with epilepsy will often stop or reduce their seizures.

  22 March 2016

  • Health, Disease
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  Eat to treat

  We know that our diet has a huge influence on our health, but is it possible to use food as medicine for a specific disease? Emma Young, who has type 2 diabetes, is sceptical but intrigued.

  22 March 2016

  • Health, Disease

• How aspirin does more than kill pain

  Could a simple anti-inflammatory drug like aspirin really help keep us all healthier?

  22 March 2016

  • Health, Disease
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  Dysphagia: it’s like being waterboarded 24 hours a day

  One morning, completely unexpectedly, Samantha Anderson woke to find that she could no longer swallow. Three-and-a-half years and many medical appointments later, she’s finally regaining her ability to eat. Bryn Nelson finds out more.

  15 March 2016

  • Health, Disease

• Inside a swallowing disorders support group

  A group in Seattle opens its doors to Bryn Nelson.

  14 March 2016

  • Health, Disease
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  Bean: the dog who couldn’t swallow

  For some people with swallowing difficulties, hope is a wagging tail.

  14 March 2016

  • Health, Disease
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  Welcome to the cyborg fair

  Frieda Klotz visited the ‘world’s first cyborg fair’ with one question: are cyborgs a real thing, or are these people just kidding themselves?

  08 March 2016

  • Tech, VR and robots

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