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Blood And Guts: A History Of Surgery - Into The Brain, Ep 1 Of 5 Channel SBS ONE 23/03/2010 8.30pm
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other cutting edge operations possible. But getting to this point has been an extraordinary story of courage and mistakes - stolen corpses, crazy remedies, medical fraud, lobotomised patients - and every now and then, brave and extraordinary advances that have saved millions of lives across the world. Presented by the charismatic and medically trained Michael Mosley, this series is a highly energetic and engaging history of surgery.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Message Stick: In A League Of Their Own - Top Of The Ladder, Ep 2 Of 3 Channel ABC1 23/03/2010 ...
In episode two, Top of the Ladder, the Bombers are riding high after a run of wins that has put them at the top of the ladder. Their reputation for fast, intuitive football has seen them take on the best that the Darwin competition has to offer and walk away with easy victories. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE)
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Chopper Rescue: Ep 3 Of 4 Channel ABC2 24/03/2010 8.00pm
In episode three, the Townsville crew get a call from the Queensland Water Police. The Coast Guard aircraft has sighted a mysterious yacht drifting far out to sea on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. There is no record of the yacht and they are unable to make contact with her. Operating at the very end of their range the Townsville crew winch a rescue officer down into the open sea. After a hard swim he climbs on board to discover an empty yacht. Hours later the story of the 'ghost yacht' on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef flashes around the world.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Gunther's ER: Minutes From Death - Ep 1 of 3 Channel SBS ONE 24/03/2010 11.45pm
Dr von Hagens has previiously presented two massively successful series, Anatomy for Beginners and Autopsy: Life and Death. In each episode of Gunther's ER, Dr von Hagens recreates serious injuries on cadavers to reveal just what happens to the body when faced with assaults or accidents. All specimens used to demonstrate the effect of these injuries, are real human bodies, donated to Dr von Hagens' Institute for Plastination.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Sleep Clinic: Ep 4 Of 8 Channel ABC2 24/03/2010 11.30pm
The howler has to have one of the weirdest sleep disorders the specialists at Papworth Sleep Clinic at Cambridge have dealt with. In this fourth episode of the series on strange and disturbing night time habits, the clinic staff meet Lindsey, who is a night time groaner. Her husband of 10 years has had to abandon the marital bed to get any peace. She's not in any pain or discomfort, the clinic staff discover, but she has a strange physical condition that causes this noisy pastime.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
The Fight: The Closest Thing To Dying - Ep 4 Of 4 Channel SBS TWO 18/03/2010 10.00pm
Captures all the excitement of heavyweight championship fight night, negotiating 300 years of boxing history. Tonight looks at the greatest, and most gruelling, heavyweight fight of all time: the 1975 'Thrilla in Manilla' between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Secrets And Lives: Disable Bodied Sailors - Ep 1 Of 4 Channel SBS ONE 18/03/2010 8.30pm
Looks at disability in Australia from a unique point of view - a crew of disabled sailors competing in the most famous ocean race in the world: the Sydney to Hobart.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Chopper Rescue: Ep 2 Of 4 Channel ABC2 17/03/2010 8.00pm
In episode two, the Cairns chopper must fly to the small Aboriginal community of Hopevale where a baby girl is severely dehydrated. On the way back to Cairns the crew is diverted to pick up a 13-year-old boy with a suspected fractured pelvis. As they fly to pick up the boy at Mossman Hospital, tropical storm clouds gather and the crew must decide whether to fly on using satellite navigation or abandon the task and leave it to the night crew. Meanwhile, wet conditions on Magnetic Island off Townsville contribute to a terrible car smash. A critically injured 22-year-old is trapped in his ute and is in intense pain.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Sleep Clinic: Ep 3 Of 8 Channel ABC2 17/03/2010 11.30pm
Australian IT worker Geoff presents a sleep disorder so extreme, even the experts at Papworth Sleep Clinic in Cambridge, UK, are astounded. His errant limbs that thrash all night long have brought his marriage to the brink.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Jabe Babe: A Heightened Life Channel SBS ONE 17/03/2010 1.15am (early hours)
This program explores the personal and medical experiences of Jabe Babe, who measures 188cm (6ft 2inches in the old money) and has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan Syndrome. Jabe works and lives on the margins, defying society's expectations of the "normal" feminine body and sexuality. (STUDY GUIDE AND FEATURE ARTICLE AVAILABLE)
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Message Stick: In A League Of Their Own - The Tiwi Brand, Ep 1 Of 3 Channel ABC1 16/03/2010 3. ...
On the Tiwi Islands, just north of Darwin, Aussie rules is a religion. From the time they can walk, all young boys want to do is kick a ball. Fast, intuitive and exciting, football has become a Tiwi trademark with star players like the Riolis and Michael Long shining under the national football spotlight. In A League Of Their Own is a three-part series that celebrates the passion and the brand of the Tiwi Bombers as they join the Northern Territory competition. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE)
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Primal Instincts: Fear - Ep 3 of 3 Channel ABC1 14/03/2010 2.30pm
Examines the nature of fear - our most primal and powerful emotion. From its evolutionary origins in the involuntary fight-or-flight survival instinct to its essential function as a learning tool today.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
The Fight: A Dirty Business - Ep 3 Of 4 Channel SBS TWO 11/03/2010 10.00pm
A chronology of events in the world of boxing, from Jake LaMotta and his ties to the mafia, to Cassius Clay and his eventual conversion to Islam.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Sleep Clinic: Ep 2 Of 8 Channel ABC2 10/03/2010 11.25pm
The second of a fascinating series on the vast array of sleep disorders features more people for whom sleep is a mysterious and often frightening thing. The clinicians at Papworth Clinic in Cambridge, UK meet Alex who suffers from night terrors - only his experiences are more than terrors. They have him jumping out of windows and running out of houses.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Chopper Rescue: Ep 1 Of 4 Channel ABC2 10/03/2010 8.00pm
Chopper Rescue is a unique observational documentary series following the work of the helicopter rescue crews of Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ), who serve the people of far north Queensland. The Chopper Rescue crews are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and operate out of two bases in the far north cities of Townsville and Cairns. Consisting of pilot, air crew officer, rescue crew officer, paramedic and emergency doctor, the crews cover vast distances from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef to the remote outback.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
How Young Can I Get? Channel ABC2 10/03/2010 10.30pm
How far would you go to rediscover your youth? Documentary maker Nicky Taylor is willing to take things to the extreme. In How Young Can I Get? Nicky embarks on an intensive anti-ageing regime to achieve a more youthful look exploring just how far we, and the anti-ageing industry, are prepared to go to find the elixir of youth.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Super Skinny Me Channel Seven 09/03/2010 11.00pm
In a experimental study about the extreme lengths some women will go to lose weight, two average-sized journalists accept a challenge to whittle themselves down to a size zero within five weeks. With everything short of surgery and drugs at their disposal, the effects of the rapid weight loss and extreme dieting on these two women has to be seen to be believed.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Primal Instincts: Happiness - Ep 2 of 3 Channel ABC1 07/03/2010 2.30pm
Shines a light on the most sought-after emotion, exploring the evolutionary role of happiness and examining what in the brain makes some people happy and others sad.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
Sleep Clinic: Ep 1 Of 8 Channel ABC2 03/03/2010 11.25pm
If you've ever wondered what you get up to while you're asleep, this series is a revelation. Whatever wild and weird sleeping habits you have, this tells you that you are not alone. We spend a third of our lives asleep, yet it's an area that has been somewhat overlooked by medical science. But thanks to unprecedented access to a specialist UK sleep clinic, footage of their patients' range of unusual sleep problems, such as parasomnia, narcolepsy, sleep eating, and idiopathic hypersomnia spotlight an array of strange night time activities. Screened over eight weeks, there is hardly a sleeping issue left untouched in this fascinating, dramatic program.
Categories: Australian Health Sites
The Diet That Time Forgot Channel Seven 02/03/2010 10.30pm
In a unique experiment, four convenience food addicts swap diets with an ancient tribe whose eating rituals date back thousands of years. They travel to Northern Pakistan to live and dine with a remote herding community and in return the tribe samples some of the Brit's fast food favourites. What will the Shimshal people make of the great British fry up and will serving up the greasiest food to their clean-living hosts make the Brits rethink their diet?
Categories: Australian Health Sites
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