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Best Medicine Episodes

    8. Doing Less, Gardening, The Smartphone, ExpertiseSeries 1

    Can you learn to see through your tongue?

    7. Failure, Detection, Herpes, Climate ChangeSeries 1

    Cancer-curing Herpes, Victorian clockwork saws and a neurologist playing detective.

    6. CT Scans, Inhalation, Faith, AttentionSeries 1

    Guest Ria Lina champions CT scans.

    5. Laughter, Other People, Inclusion, Tissue EngineeringSeries 1

    Drumming rats, Henry VIII's disabilities, laughter and a world-first heart operation.

    4. Surgical Microrobots, Backlash, The Immune System, Keeping an Open MindSeries 1

    Micro-robots and the immune system are among the medicines championed in this episode.

    3. Breast MedicineSeries 1

    A breast special featuring a life-saving AI algorithm, luck and injectable radiation.

    2. Cytosponge, Fresh Air, Showmanship, Alkaline BreathingSeries 1

    Comedy meets medical science with a pill on a string and medieval surgery.

    1. Sobriety, Touch, Camellia Sinensis, TrustSeries 1

    Comedy meets medical science with virtual reality injections, sobriety and trust.

    Pilot: Bubbles, Dancing, Masks, GoodSAM

    Pilot: Comedy meets science with cancer-curing microbubbles, dancing & a life saving app.

    Introducing Best Medicine

    Kiri Pritchard-McLean dissects funny and fascinating medicine with experts and comedians.

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