Health and wellbeing

In the 1980s, a scientific breakthrough paved the way for new treatments

The story of how an Argentinian doctor created a new treatment for heart disease

In May 1960 a Norwegian toy-maker unveiled a life-sized, life-like training manikin

Dr Max Perutz made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century

In 2013 a new tax was approved in one of the world’s biggest consumers of fizzy drinks

In the 1940s, vulnerable hospital patients were fed sugar to see if their teeth decayed.

In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo's first book was published.

In 1969, Dyke and Dryden started one the most successful black British businesses

In 2013, Kavitha Emmanuel began campaigning to stop skin lightening in India

In 1994, hundreds of thousands of people fled the city of Surat

The ice bucket challenge became a worldwide phenomenon in 2014

In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote the self help book - How to Win Friends and Influence People

How the life-saving method to stop choking was developed

The first World Laughter Day took place in Mumbai, India in January 1998

How engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his team made the EpiPen, the lifesaving allergy device

In 1983, scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris first discovered the HIV virus

How the drug tamoxifen became a global success in breast cancer treatment

The UK’s National Health Service started on 5 July 1948

Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail

In 2001, Colombian born choreographer Beto Perez created Zumba and it was all by accident

In 1986, protests against McDonalds in Rome led to an anti-fast food revolution.

In 2000, an American personal trainer invented CrossFit

In 2010, Uruguay was taken to court by a tobacco company for its trailblazing smoking ban

US President Lyndon B Johnson's 1965 speech proposed healthcare for the poor and elderly