Antibiotics are the wonder drugs of modern medicine. They've allowed doctors to save and extend life by killing infection and enabling ground breaking surgery. But imagine a world where antibiotics don't work - that would be a place dominated by superbugs, bacteria that don't respond to antibiotics. Scientists say this would end many modern medical procedures and they...
If you're feeling sleep deprived because you've just had a baby, if you're a teenager whose always tired, if you're wound up by your frantic lifestyle and can't slow down at night, or if you're struggling to sleep because you're wracked with pain, then this program is a must watch. Sleeping with Pain...
The Life Series is an observational documentary series that chronicles the lives of 11 children as they grow from infancy to adolescence. Combining real life stories with cutting edge science, it offers a refreshing insight into contemporary family life...
It sounds like a benign coordinate or reference number but make no mistake H5N1 is far from benign. It’s an influenza virus ruthlessly efficient at killing those unfortunate enough to encounter it. You can’t catch it like conventional flu, victims contract it by eating poultry infected with the bug. But global health authorities know that viruses mutate and evo...
On the outskirts of Harbin, China, lies an abandoned, desolate building. It’s here that the infamous Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Corp, otherwise known as Unit 731, was based. Here that thousands of prisoners were killed in medical experiments and the biological weapons that would kill hundreds of thousands were developed. We investigate Japan’s chem...
The third instalment of The Life Series features the ordinary and extraordinary journeys of eleven children as they learn to deal with many of life’s hurdles including death, divorce and the day-to-day challenges of being a five year old. Following on from Life at 1 and Life at 3, Life at 5 tracks the children against contemporary scientific findings from two are...
A world leader in the field of neuroscience, she's devoted her life to studying the 1.5kg of tissue that makes each one of us who we are. She's a scientist, a TV star, a best-selling author and a life peer to boot; Professor Susan Greenfield...
Every day, worldwide, laboratories routinely analyse human genes to pinpoint a whole range of suspected diseases. Life-saving treatment can depend on fast, accurate diagnoses. Tests like these cost a lot of money. And now corporations are moving to cash in. It's a development that deeply worries some scientists who fear the public good is falling victim to private...
This series introduces the human body and how it works, explores the senses and the role of the brain, the body in action from birth to old age and what we need to do to look after our body so we can grow and continue to function throughout life. Looking After Your Body...
An ancient sport that started in China more than 2000 years ago is breathing new life into survivors of a deadly disease. Australian Story follows the inspiring story of how women with breast cancer took up an unconventional form of therapy – dragon boating...
A chance meeting with a family who'd suffered a double tragedy led an award-winning medical scientist, Dr. Michael Denborough, to discover Malignant Hyperthermia (MH), a rare genetic disorder that kills randomly and suddenly...
The idea of choosing your baby's hair and eye colour, IQ, height, weight and talents fills most of us with a sense of horror, evoking memories of Nazi breeding programmes from the 1930s. Yet some are overcoming the taboo in a bid to create 'the perfect child'. Filmed in the USA, India and Denmark, this documentary explores the new techniques making what was once sc...
The Articular Surface Replacement hip or ASR created by DePuy and marketed by the Johnson and Johnson company was sold to doctors and patients as a giant step forward in joint replacement. Its creators boasted it would give greater mobility and help patients get back on their feet quicker. Now reporter Quentin McDermott investigates claims that the metals hips are dis...
Is there such a thing as the male pregnancy? Dr Jonica Newby follows three dads-to-be, testing their hormones and their humour – as they make the transition to fatherhood. In Part 2 Dr Newby explores whether science can tell us how to be good dads...
Dr Jennifer MacDiarmid and Dr Himanshu Brahmbhatt were scientists working on a disease in sheep at the CSIRO in the early 1990s when one of their colleagues was diagnosed with lung cancer. The day before he died, the colleague urged them to start working on a cure for cancer. They began researching that very night, and initially focused on plant extracts which might h...
In the 1980s as an unemployed medical scientist, Professor Robert Tindle made a discovery that led to the breakthrough use of stem cells for saving thousands of lives around the world. University Masters degree student Danielle Tindle, 25, hadn't been close to her father but that was about to change when she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma two years ago. To sa...
Teenagers are in limbo. Neither adults nor children, they are caught up in a confusing world of change. Using entertaining segments and accessible language Whatever! The Science Of Teens taps into the most up-to-date scientific investigations of the teen brain, and the latest research into family and society, to reveal that much 'aberrant' teenage behaviour is rea...
Vital Systems is a six part series, developed for Australian secondary school students, which looks at the major systems of the human body. These include the muscular, skeletal, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, digestive, urinary and immune systems. Control Systems This episode examines the nervous and endocrine body systems which regulate the body. It includes an...
*WINNER* ATOM AWARDS 2006 - Best Documentary Science, Technology and the Environment Imagine a disease so bizarre it curses entire towns with cretinism. Imagine a condition that causes the IQ of entire nations to plummet from 110 points to a mentally retarded 85. Imagine that the same medical nightmare creates deafness, shrunken and deformed skeletons, and manufa...
Life is a game. The game is life. In downtown Dallas Texas, 3000 'gamers' from 55 countries have come to compete, to conquer, to kill. The video games industry is the entertainment phenomenon of the past 20 years. It has eclipsed the impact of television. It is worth more than Hollywood. It has become a natural part of life for an entire generation. In Just a Game...
