Brain Attack focuses on strokes – the risks, the warning signs and the ground-breaking emergency steps that minimise the long term effects. Utilising a highly reactive production approach, the programme features filmed sequences and case studies from leading stroke treatment centres around the USA, offering access to the most innovative Brain Attack teams in the world.

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Running Time: 1 x 60 min.
Year of Production: 1999
Produced by: Beyond Productions

This hour-long documentary explores the phenomenon of human guinea pigs – people who undergo drug trials and experimental surgery before they’ve been FDA approved. This hour brings stories of bravery to light from the vanguard of medicine.

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Running Time: 1 x 1 hour
Year of Production: 2002
Produced by: Beyond Productions

From the world’s most isolated children’s hospital come compelling and personal stories of the ceaseless struggle to mend young lives. Children At The Edge uncovers the inner workings of science in a world where life and death – and quality of survival – are at stake. This is a realm where science sometimes succeeds, sometimes fails... and real people depend on the outcome.
Chloe’s Story – a one hour special that exposes us to the heart breaking reality of how much, and how little, modern medicine can do with leukaemia. We learn that exacting a ‘cure’ can demand a shocking price.

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Running time: 5 x 30 min
Year of Production: 2004
Produced By: Beyond Productions

Cutting Edge is a documentary series which investigates the ‘outer limits’ of new medical science. In laboratories and surgeries around the world, researchers and specialists endeavour to discover the next major medical breakthrough. Each episode explores a different area of modern medicine, which is at the cutting edge in its specialisation and sometimes at the edge of community ethics.

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Running Time: 4 x 1/2 hours
Year of Production: 2001
Produced by: Beyond Productions

The eating disorders anorexia and bulimia nervosa affect hundreds of thousands of women around the world. Anorexia can be fatal. It is becoming increasingly common in girls. This programme is demanding viewing, exposing the depth and breadth of the problem. Sufferers are obsessively concerned with their body shape and will go to great lengths to control their weight, including extreme dieting, self-induced vomiting and vigorous exercising.

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Running Time : 1 x 60 min
Year Of Production : 2000
Produced By : Raconteur Productions Ltd.