NOBEL'S GREATEST HITS - MEDICINE

The incredible advance of medical science and skill to a point at which perfect health and long life for everyone is becoming a possibility. These are the men and women who brought the dream home.

• Code breakers - The discovery of DNA and the double helix, genetic engineering and the future
• Impulse -revealing the secrets of the nervous system - how the brain works
• See-through -X-rays, Electrocardiography CAT scans - ultrasound, brain scans
• In the Blood - diet and lifestyle ,blood groups, insulin, the aspirin miracle
• Battling the bugs - penicillin, bacteriology, immunology - winning the battle against of disease.

Extra feature - Nobel the man -the strange story of the inventor of dynamite and remorse driven founder of the Nobel Prizes