Overview
Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills. Antibiotics, cholesterol lowering tablets, anti-depressants, painkillers, even tablets to extend youth and improve performance in bed. These drugs perform minor miracles day after day, but how much is really known about them? Drug discovery often owes as much to serendipity as to science, and that means much is learnt about how medicines work, or even what they do, when they're taken. By investigating some of the most popular pills people pop, Horizon asks, how much can they be trusted to do what they are supposed to?
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47 - 1Do I Drink Too Much? October 13, 2009 -
47 - 2The Secret You October 20, 2009
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47 - 3Fix Me October 27, 2009
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47 - 4Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole? November 03, 2009
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47 - 5Why Do We Talk? November 10, 2009
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47 - 6How Long is a Piece of String? November 17, 2009
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47 - 7The Secret Life of the Dog January 06, 2010
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47 - 8Why Do Viruses Kill? January 13, 2010
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47 - 9Pill Poppers January 20, 2010
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47 - 10Don't Grow Old February 03, 2010
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47 - 11To Infinity and Beyond February 10, 2010
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47 - 12What Makes a Genius? February 17, 2010
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47 - 13Did Cooking Make Us Human? March 02, 2010
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47 - 14Is Everything We Know About the Universe Wrong? March 09, 2010