Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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2025/01/15 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2025/01/08 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2025/01/01 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2024/12/25 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2024/12/18 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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Health Check
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2024/12/04 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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Health Check
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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Resistance to leading malaria drug
Emerging malaria drug resistance in Uganda raises global health concerns (R)
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What a Trump presidency means for global health
How will Trump鈥檚 return reshape global health funding and U.S. commitments?
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Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease
New global report finds tuberculosis is once again the leading infectious disease.
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Weight loss gold rush
Telehealth platforms are increasingly prescribing GLP-1s, raising concerns about safety.
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Organ transplant in HIV+ patients
A new study looks at the safety of organ transplants between people with HIV
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Rapid malaria diagnoses
What difference are rapid diagnostic tests making in the fight against malaria?
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Micro RNA wins Nobel
What is micro RNA, and why has it been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine?
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Mpox widens its reach
As mpox continues to spread, we check in on how the vaccine rollout is going.
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Vector-borne diseases
What does an uptick in vector-borne diseases mean for global health?
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Polio Vaccination in Afghanistan
Has the Taliban halted polio vaccinations in Afghanistan?
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Haiti: Healthcare in the Midst of Conflict
As Haiti expands its state of emergency, what is the country鈥檚 healthcare situation?
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The race to distribute Mpox vaccines
We look at the struggle to get Mpox vaccines to the places where they are most needed.
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Living with a new brain
Claudia Hammond is in Malawi, hearing what life is like after brain surgery.
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The latest on the mpox public health emergency
Further developments in the spread of mpox around the world
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Catching up with Covid
An in-depth look at how the world is coping with coronavirus in 2024
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MPox outbreak worsens
Across the African continent cases of MPox have surged 160% this year
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World鈥檚 first Oropouche deaths in Brazil
The virus, carried by flies and mosquitoes, has killed two women in Bahia state.
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Systemic racism in health care
Systemic racism affects our wellbeing long before we ever see a doctor.
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Toxic positivity
A discussion on toxic positivity from the Cheltenham Science Festival
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Steps forward and back in the battle again HIV
The past few weeks have seen achievements in the fight against HIV, but also setbacks.
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Can light emitting bandages treat cancer?
All the latest health research from the Royal Society鈥檚 Summer Exhibition in London.
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New MPox strain in DRC
A new, concerning strain of MPox is spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo
