The live magazine show which covers the latest in technology, medicine and the environment.
This week the hole-in-the-heart that could be a life saver. How doctors in San Francisco are using the world's most powerful medical laser to breathe new life into diseased hearts - by burning holes straight through them. This operation takes only half an hour, and cuts out the complexity and trauma associated with conventional by-pass surgery. And from
Italy, the drug that's catching on along the catwalks of Milan. Haute couturetakes a tip from the chemists as top fashion houses find nature's stunning colours with drug company techniques - and even steal some pharmaceutical secrets, like the heart medicine that makes a rather fetching yellow. With Howard Stableford,
Judith Harm , Kate Bellingham , Carmen Pryce and John Diamond.
Producer Richard Dale
Editor Dana Purvis
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