Um ambicioso jovem executivo é enviado para trazer de volta o CEO da sua empresa de um idílico mas misterioso "Centro de Bem-Estar", num local remoto dos Alpes Suíços. Ele depressa desconfia que os tratamentos milagrosos do Centro não são o que parecem. Quando ele começa a desvendar os seus segredos aterrorizantes, a sua sanidade é posta à prova, quando é diagnosticado com a mesma estranha doença que mantém todos os pacientes a ansiar pela cura.
Nick é o porta-voz de uma tabaqueira e cumpre o seu tabalho com zelo. Recomenda a adolescentes que ignorem as campanhas atnti-tabaco e decidam eles próprios sobre as suas vidas, procura contrariar todos os estudos que apontam para a influência do tabaco na saúde de fumadores e não fumadores. Fá-lo com uma motivação profissional mas também pessoal, contra a corrente "neo-puritana" que se tem instalado no mundo desde o final dos anos 80. Mas estando do lado "errado", Nick tem um filho adolescente a quem tem que explicar o que fazer, e o que não fazer...
Estudos recentes comprovaram que a cada três americanos, dois estão acima do peso ou são obesos. Mas por que a população americana é tão obesa? E de quem é a culpa? Você pode arriscar um palpite depois de assistir a Super Size Me, um filme que mostra o que a ingestão de fast food pode fazer por você.
Neste documentário comovente, uma aluna de doutoramento, de apenas 28 anos, recorre à câmara para documentar a sua luta diária contra a síndrome de fadiga crónica.
Um documentário que nos leva a uma jornada científica e espiritual onde descobrimos que ao mudar as percepções de alguém, o corpo humano pode curar-se de qualquer doença.
The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.
The Healing Garden, a secret world that has provided treatment to heal the Earth, is under attack by the Byougenzu, who plan to infect Earth with an illness, putting it in great danger! To solve this crisis, the three medical trainees of Earth, known as the Healing Animals, along with Latte, who holds a special power as the Princess of the Healing Garden, escape in search of their partners! Three ordinary girls come across the group by chance, and together, they transform into Pretty Cure and take on the Byougenzu!
A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.
Embarrassing Bodies is a British television programme broadcast by Channel 4 and made by Maverick Television since 2007. In 2011, an hour long live show was introduced, "Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic", which makes use of Skype technology. Various spin-offs have been produced in relation to the programme to target different patients, such as Embarrassing Fat Bodies and Embarrassing Teenage Bodies. The show has a strong multiplatform presence on web and mobile.
Farmed and Dangerous is a four-part webisode comedy series from Chipotle Mexican Grill. This series is a satire of "Big Ag" and "Big Food" practices, featuring the fictional megacorporation Animoil feeding cows petropellets, which are made from petroleum directly rather than indirectly, from the corn and soybean that require so much petroleum products to grow (nitrogen fertilizer is made from the nitrogen present in the air and hydrogen present in natural gas from fracking).
The story of the NHS in unprecedented times.
When a health crisis forces Liv to rethink her “live fast, die young” attitude, she jumps into a wellness journey to get better — even if it kills her.
Science journalist and qualified doctor Michael Mosley along with a team of doctors investigate health issues and provide definitive answers.
Dr Emma Craythorne and her team of experts are on a mission to solve complex skin conditions. They help people whose lives have been impeded by devastating disorders and they hope Emma and their team have the solution.
A-list celebrities share their personal health issues in a series of intimate conversations with Dr. David Agus, a world-renowned medical authority and cancer specialist. With their deeply honest and thoughtful conversations serving as the narrative spine of the show, Dr. Agus will take viewers on an eye-opening and inspirational journey that sheds new light on the most important medical topics from today’s headlines. Full of personal revelations, cutting-edge breakthroughs, game-changing technologies and accessible take-aways, The Checkup with Dr. David Agus will not only change lives, it will save lives.
Jamie Oliver is here to start a revolution. The impassioned chef takes on obesity, heart disease and diabetes in the United States, where its children are the first generation not expected to live as long as their parents.
Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken put competing health theories to the test with the help of 30 other pairs of identical twins.
Celebrity Fit Club is a reality television series that follows eight overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight for charity. Split into two competing teams of four, each week teams are given different physical challenges, and weighed to see if they reached their target weights. They are monitored and supervised by a team that includes a nutritionist, a psychologist, and a physical trainer, the latter of which is former U.S. Marine Harvey Walden IV.
Health documentary series with anatomist Dr Alice Roberts
Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic reveals how medicine may be practiced in the future. The show uses Skype video calling to offer members of the public appointments with Dr Christian Jessen and Dr Dawn Harper, along with guest specialists, during the live broadcast. Focusing on live diagnosis and consumer healthcare, the doctors arm callers and viewers with practical advice and information on what treatments and services are available to them both on the NHS and privately. Alongside the live cases there are consumer items featuring tests on over-the-counter medicines and insight into popular procedures such as laser eye-surgery.
With Britain becoming the most obese country in western Europe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is on a mission, asking food producers, restaurants and the government to confront the crisis.
Explore the mysterious regions inside the human body. See how vital organs interconnect to make human life possible. Learn how skeletons fit together. Witness the lightness and strength of bone, how muscles work as levers, what it takes to achieve the "perfect" body. See how the heart functions, and learn the roles of white and red blood cells. Discover the complex systems controlling breathing, digestion, glandular changes, and hearing.
Baffling symptoms. Controversial diagnoses. Costly treatments. Seven people with chronic illnesses search for answers -- and relief.
The couple that swims together, stays together. Comics Julie Wilson Nimmo and Greg Hemphill take the plunge at Scotland's breathtaking and beautiful wild swimming spots.
