SCIENCE
15 September 2008
Monday 15 September 2008 21:00-21:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Claudia Hammond investigates inflammation, the body's first line of defence against injury and infection. Researchers now realise that when it fails to switch off, the process is responsible for a host of unrelated medical conditions from cardiovascular disease to cancer. The latest attempts to tame the inflamed response could offer new and much simpler ways of warding off some of the most challenging diseases.
