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This collection contains two clips looking at how the causes of disease are investigated, vaccines developed and treatment administered. The first looks at the rotavirus, its impact, the development of vaccines, and the community benefit, of immunisation, and the second, cancer, the risk factors and a molecular understanding of how radiation works in the treatment of cancer. Interviewees: Dr Ruth Bishop, Virologist and discoverer of the rotavirus Dr Carl Kirkwood, Enteric Virus Research Group Dr Shankar Siva, Radiation Oncologist