Could it be that body fat has more to do with biological processes than personal choices?
The Last Cruise
The Last Cruise documents the experiences of people onboard the now-infamous Diamond Princess cruise ship, where an uncontained COVID-19 outbreak at the start of the pandemic became a global spectacle and a faraway symbol of the new virus and its potential to upend any sense of normalcy.
Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry
When she’s diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, Hannah Fry explores the issues surrounding how we screen for- and treat cancer, asking if we could be overmedicalising it.
More life – Decoding the secret of aging
Can the aging process be reversed – or even halted, altogether?
Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth?
Nearly half of us take a vitamin or mineral supplement every day, but what are these pills sold on every high street actually doing? Digging deeper than the eye-catching words on the packaging, Dr Giles Yeo investigates who really needs a supplement by putting our diets to the test.
Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston’s Casebook
Surgeon Gabriel Weston introduces us to people from across the globe with the world’s most unique bodies.
China’s COVID Secrets
The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak and lessons for the world.
Toxic Beauty
Toxic Beauty is a documentary feature film with exclusive access to scientists, lawyers, advocates, regulators, politicians, a dynamic whistle blower, survivors and women who have lost their lives. It follows the class action lawsuit against J&J and the plaintiffs, personal stories of women fighting for justice in a race against time with this deadly disease. Woven throughout the film is a human experiment. We document, as Boston University medical student, Mymy Nguyen, measures her chemical body burden from over 27 products. Scientists monitor her shocking results.In the end, the film meets the companies and people who offer solutions and optimism for safer, toxicant free cosmetics.
How Pandemics Change the World
COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. Almost all of them started in animals and made the jump to humans.
Opioids Inc.
The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud.
Cuba’s Cancer Hope
Can Cuba’s innovative lung cancer vaccines give new hope to patients across the world?
Human Nature
NOVA INVESTIGATES THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY GENE-EDITING TECHNOLOGY