Name: Spina Bifida & Me
Released: 2018-07-26

Horizon

S55 · E4 — Spina Bifida & Me

S55:E4 · Spina Bifida & Me

Episodes

13 episodes in this season

My Amazing Brain: Richard's War

60 min

Teenagers vs Cancer: A User's Guide

60 min

How to Build a Time Machine

60 min

Now Playing

Spina Bifida & Me

60 min

Jupiter Revealed

60 min

Stopping Male Suicide

60 min

A Week Without Lying - The Honesty Experiment

60 min

The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?

60 min

Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?

60 min

E10

Avalanche: Making a Deadly Snowstorm

60 min

E11

Vitamin Pills: Miracle or Myth?

60 min

E12

Diagnosis on Demand? The Computer Will See You Now

60 min

E13

The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?

60 min

Horizon

TV Series

19641h7.5

Documentary

Now playing

Spina Bifida & Me

Season 55 · Episode 4 · Jul 26, 2018

One in every 1,000 pregnancies in Britain has a spine or brain defect like spina bifida. 30 years ago, actress Ruth Madeley was one of them. Despite having spina bifida herself, it is a condition she doesn't fully understand. In this programme, Ruth sets out to discover why she has it, whether it could have been prevented and what it means for her future. Ruth meets the lord campaigning for a change in the law that he says could prevent thousands of birth defects. And she discovers that a pioneering surgery could offer a different future for babies diagnosed with spina bifida, by operating on them before they are even born. She discovers how this surgery was invented, meets the families whose lives it has changed and follows the team of British surgeons preparing to perform this extraordinary foetal surgery in the UK for the very first time. But Ruth also examines attitudes in Britain today and asks whether we should change the way we see disability.

More details

Horizon

TV Series

19641h7.5

Documentary

Now playing

Spina Bifida & Me

Season 55 · Episode 4 · Jul 26, 2018

More details