Includes the following topics: Pregnancies with complications Saving the premature infant The scourge of smallpox The breakthroughs of Louis Pasteur The fight against tuberculosis X-Rays and seeing into the human body
Includes the following topics: The birth control pill revolution Syphillis - Cupid's poison arrow The rise of AIDS Searching for the human seed Battlefield medicine from bone saws and wound clamps Ether, chloroform and laughing gas
Includes the following topics: The inner workings of the heart The deadly clotting of blood Artificial kidneys and dialysis The battle against diabetes Unraveling the stomach ulcer mystery Drugs from alchemy to pharmacy The miracle of penicillin
Includes the following topics: Life saving heart transplants 200 years of cancer research Radiation and chemotherapy Fight against blindness Mapping the brain Alzheimer's - The disease of the 21st century DNA and gene mapping