The Rebel Surgeon

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to...

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives...

At a time when our eyes are tiring ever faster, we zoom in on new techniques to combat visual diseases and deficiencies.

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction.

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small village near Chemnitz for almost 20 years,...

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.

A personal, scientific, mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo, focus on Ayahuasca and Master Plants, their healing and visionary properties...

In Nigeria, a young Canadian doctor serves in a local mission hospital and learns much from the experience. Stationed abroad under the Canadian...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a...