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A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution, and mass abuse of synthetic opiates.

This England charts the events surrounding British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.

In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.

This topical series examines the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts to combat it and ways to manage its mental health toll.

A series of three documentary films that put Los Angeles under the microscope. Continuing his diverse exploration of life in America, Louis looks at LA's problem with neglected and feral dogs, the experiences of patients with life-threatening conditions at the city's most famous hospital and how California deals with sex offenders after they are released from prison.

In this docuseries, a scrappy electronic cigarette startup becomes a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke.

Charité takes place in late 19th century Germany at a research hospital, where the nurses and doctors deal with issues of class, women's roles, and public health issues of the era.

This timely and provocative docu-series spotlights the crisis of the opioid epidemic through the eyes of those most affected: the growers, addicts, cartel bosses and law enforcement hopelessly caught in its web.

An investigative look into the beauty industry.

Impassioned chef Jamie Oliver is determined to take on the high statistics of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in the United States. By talking to people in their communities, Oliver will attempt to show people the incredible rewards or cooking for themselves and the people they love.

Filmed simultaneously with ambulance crews across the West Midlands, this series shows in real time the range of cases paramedics attend to.

A public hospital on the outskirts of a large city. Following health measures, doctors in the internal medicine department are confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a forensic doctor, who do not yet know each other, will have to work together to manage the department and the patients alone. But the quarantine lasts longer....

Inspired by Australia's radical response to AIDS in the 1980s, In Our Blood tells the story of a community grappling with a terrifying new disease. With no cure in sight, they realise they will need something truly radical to survive, trust.

This show tells the story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

London's network of frontline trauma hospitals treat critically injured patients through the busiest month of the year in this ground-breaking series.

Touching, honest and hilarious, the series takes a look at the stresses, strains and joys of working in - and using - the health service in modern Britain.

Neal McDonough (NBC's Boomtown) and Kelli Williams (The Practice) return to series television as members of a mobile medical team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who are summoned in a heartbeat to scope out - and hopefully snuff out - outbreaks of unexplained and fearful diseases.

Dr. Chris van Tulleken takes over a GP surgery and challenges the over-prescription of drugs. He helps patients get off medication and find alternative solutions. This social experiment reveals the shocking truth about the pharmaceutical industry and the impact of over-prescribing on patients' health.

The Invisible Shield, a four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don't even know it. But while public health makes modern life possible, the work itself is often underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood.

The world's wealthiest nation hides a problem you've never thought about, but can no longer ignore. Too much waste, and an inadequate way to clean it up. Failing septic tanks and collapsing sewer lines are shooting raw waste into people's homes. Untreated sewage is poisoning rivers and polluting coastlines. Wasteland examines how we got here, and whether overproduction of waste, and a crumbling infrastructure can keep up, before the problem blows up in our faces.

Go behind the scenes of HART, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service's Hazardous Area Response Team, on of 15 specialist medical units set up after the 7/7 London bombings to treat badly injured patient's in extreme environments.

А four-part series from Nutopia that examines the science and medical innovations that conquered some of the world's deadliest diseases and doubled life expectancy for many across the globe.

Dr Christian Jessen and Anna Richardson take a look at extreme dieting and examine the ways that fad diets affect your health. Each week they compare the eating habits of two participants: an overweight person and an underweight person.

As we confront a global pandemic that traces its source to bats sold at a wet market in China, Wet Markets Exposed travels the world exploring how markets feed local communities while potentially putting everyone at risk of the next deadly disease.

Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes. Lasting just over four days, the Great Smog plunged London into a terrifyingly murky gloom - the acrid pollution seeping into homes, leaving Londoners gasping for breath, shutting down transport and emergency services, and overwhelming hospitals and undertakers alike.