Health

E Numbers: An Edible Adventure

Tonight, 20:00, BBC Two

Food writer Stefan Gates continues his quest to uncover the truth about those notorious food additives, E numbers.

• E Numbers: An Edible Adventure
• BBC Health: Food additives
• BBC Food blog: Are E numbers really bad for you?
• BBC News: Overload on Es

Case Notes

Listen again

It's been estimated that 10 per cent of patients in hospital experience something that could cause them medical harm. Many of these mistakes occur in the operating theatre. Dr Mark Porter looks into how the newly introduced WHO surgical safety checklist is being used in the operating theatres at the Royal London Hospital.

• Radio 4: Case Notes
• BBC Health: Hospital care

Bowel cancer

Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the third most common type of cancer in the UK, affecting one in twenty people at some point in their lifetime. With early diagnosis it is one of the most treatable.

• BBC Health: Bowel cancer
• Cancer types and treatments
• Cancer support

Sexual health

Recent news reports suggest there were almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK last year. Find out about the signs, symptoms, tests and treatments of the most common.

• BBC Health: Sexual health
• Chlamydia
• Genital herpes
• Gonorrhoea
• Sexual health screening
• BBC News: UK has 480,000 new sex infections