Horizon · SEASON 52
Are Health Tests Really A Good Idea?
Episode 13 · 2015-08-12
- Documentary
Episode overview
Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, Mosley sets out to discover which if any of the tests are worth doing.
60 minutes
Season 52 episodes
1. Should I Eat Meat? The Big Health Dilemma2014-08-18
2. Should I Eat Meat? How to Feed the Planet2014-08-20
3. Allergies: Modern Life and Me2014-08-27
4. Inside the Dark Web2014-09-03
5. Ebola - The search for a cure2014-09-10
6. Is your Brain Male or Female?2014-09-29
7. Secrets of the Solar System2015-03-03
8. Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves2015-03-10
9. Dancing in the Dark - The End of Physics?2015-03-17
10. 70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret2015-05-11
11. Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?2015-05-20
12. The Trouble with Space Junk2015-08-05
13. Are Health Tests Really A Good Idea?2015-08-12
14. First Britons2015-08-19
15. OCD: A Monster In My Mind2015-08-26
16. Which Universe Are We In?2015-09-02
17. Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation2015-09-09
18. Are Video Games Really That Bad?2015-09-16
