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World Service,10 Dec 1998,13 mins

How Altitude Affects Medicine

Health Matters

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How altitude affects drug efficacy, a clampdown on black market drugs, and Ayurveda. How one doctors discovered that biological changes in the body at high altitude can affect the impact of medicines. The programme also looks at a clampdown on black market medicines in the Ivory Coast. Finally, Ayureveda, an Indian system which uses a holistic form of treatments, including certain foods, to treat everyday health issues. Presenter unknown.

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