The Best TV Shows on Discovery Health Channel

Every Discovery Health Channel Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Discovery Health Channel has aired more than 20 shows between 2002 and 2009. Highlighting Discovery Health Channel’s quality programming, Impact: Stories of Survival and Med Students stand out, premiering in 2002 and 2002. As of August 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of Discovery Health Channel’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Diagnosis: Unknown
    Diagnosis: Unknown (2002)10.0

    This scripted reality series features the best doctors and scientists in the world. Each one-hour episode focuses on a mystery and the dedicated team of medical professionals who struggle from crisis to cure.

  • Half Ton Teen
    Half Ton Teen (2009)10.0

    Billy Robbins is the world's heaviest teenager weighing nearly 850 pounds at 18 years old, this mini series follows his journey and attempts to lose the weight that is killing him. This First TV Movie is the first of 3 TLC specials made following Billy throughout 2009-10

  • Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew
    Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew (2005)7.5

    Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew is a television show hosted by Loveline host Dr. Drew Pinsky. It ran for 10 episodes in all, and is still featured on the Discovery Health channel.

  • Dr. G: Medical Examiner
    Dr. G: Medical Examiner (2004)6.8

    Dr. G: Medical Examiner documents cases handled by deputy chief medical examiner Dr. Jan C. Garavaglia (aka Dr. G) of Florida's District Nine Medical Examiner's Office. Each episode features two or three cases Dr. G has handled in the Orlando area, and also in Bexar County, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida where she was previously employed. Some portions of the show have been dramatized and some names have been changed to protect the dignity of individuals and their families.

  • Jon & Kate Plus 8
    Jon & Kate Plus 8 (2007)5.1

    With a set of twins AND a set of sextuplets, the Gosselins are hardly your typical American family! Jon and Kate are the parents of this adorable bunch, and they are battling all odds to make sure their brood has a normal, happy childhood.

  • Impact: Stories of Survival
    Impact: Stories of Survival (2002)N/A

    Impact: Stories of Survival is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on and was produced by the Discovery Health Channel. The program is based on life-threatening situations in which the victim experienced a moment of impact. Featuring video of the event, reenactments, and interviews with surgeons, doctors, and the victims, Impact takes its viewers through the full process of the victims impact, treatment and recovery. There is also a segment where a computerized animation shows in detail how the impact affected the victim's body showing how and to what extent bones, organs, veins, etc. were injured.

  • Med Students
    Med Students (2002)N/A

    This series follows med students at McMasters University in Ontario Canada. It is shot in a verité style and follows students working in the hospital as well as in their homes. The series highlights the incredible pressures experienced by Medical Students.

  • Medical Incredible
    Medical Incredible (2005)N/A

  • Mystery Diagnosis
    Mystery Diagnosis (2005)N/A

    Mystery Diagnosis is a television program that airs on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Each episode focuses on two or more individuals and their struggles to find out what ailments they suffer from. As the program's title suggests, doctors have a difficult time finding a diagnosis, often due to nonspecific symptoms, the rarity of the condition or disease, or the patient's case being an unusual manifestation of said condition or disease. The series debuted on Discovery Health Channel in 2005, and was continued when the Oprah Winfrey Network replaced Discovery Health on January 1, 2011; the current season premiered January 5, 2011.

  • Rebuilt: The Human Body Shop
    Rebuilt: The Human Body Shop (2006)N/A

    Rebuilt: The Human Body Shop is a Discovery Health Channel reality television series featuring the Orthotic Prosthetic Center.

  • Runway Moms
    Runway Moms (N/A)N/A

    Runway Moms is an American reality television program created for the Discovery Health Channel. It is a documentary style show profiling women that work for Expecting Models, a modeling agency that specializes in pregnant models and actresses. Each episode highlights a different model mom-to-be and her unique pregnancy and birth story. The models are followed on their photo shoots and share their prenatal secrets to staying fit and glamorous. Agency owner Liza Elliott-Ramirez, mother of two, acts as both an agent and confidant for the models. Runway Moms was broadcast on the Discovery Health Channel in the United States, the Discovery Channel in Australia, and on Discovery Home & Health in southeast Asia.

  • Make Room for Baby
    Make Room for Baby (2003)N/A

  • Life or Death
    Life or Death (2007)N/A

    Extraordinary but true medical stories and mysteries of the human body.

  • A Lyon In The Kitchen
    A Lyon In The Kitchen (2007)N/A

  • Mystery ER
    Mystery ER (2007)N/A

    Mystery ER is a medical reality program, created by Mike Mathis for the Discovery Health Channel. The show features reenactments of real-life medical mysteries, told through narration and interviews.

  • Body in Numbers
    Body in Numbers (2008)N/A

  • Dr. Know
    Dr. Know (N/A)N/A

    Dr. Know is a program dedicated to debunking various rumours and popular misconceptions in the realm of personal health. The show featured Dr. Paul Trotman, a New Zealand physician in fields such as internal medicine and obstetrics/gynecology, who is described by one reviewer as a "medical myth buster". The show aired in 20 parts as a half-hour format on The Discovery Health Channel. In 2008, the series began airing on Science Channel. It is filmed in and around Washington, D.C.

  • Just Cook This! With Sam the Cooking Guy
    Just Cook This! With Sam the Cooking Guy (2007)N/A

  • Deliver Me
    Deliver Me (2008)N/A

    Deliver Me is a reality television series airing on OWN. The show is centered on three female doctors in Los Angeles, California who are partners in a high-risk OB/GYN practice. The show follows a selection of their patients' trials and tribulations with pregnancy as well as the doctors' own lives. The general theme is depicted in the opening montage: "Three mothers, Three friends, Three doctors -- One practice." Each doctor narrates the scenes for her own patient or situation. Dr. Clifford Bochner, the only male doctor to appear regularly, is a specialist whom the practice consults for the most difficult cases. Dr. John Jain, a reproductive endocrinologist and Dr. Hill's ex-husband, appeared in a few episodes when Dr. Hill had eggs frozen for later implantation and for Dr. Bohn's successful in-vitro fertilization. The series premiered on Discovery Health Channel on March 4, 2008. Season 3 began on June 16, 2009 and concluded on October 27, 2009 with a total of ten episodes. Deliver Me was one of two original Discovery Health series to be continued when the channel was replaced by OWN in January 2011. Season 4 debuted May 1, 2011.

  • I'm Pregnant And…
    I'm Pregnant And… (2009)N/A

    Profiling expectant parents who face unusual circumstances.