Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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Attacks on medical facilities in conflict zones
Why medical staff are increasingly finding themselves targets of violence
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What can we learn from gut sounds?
The pioneering Australian doctor who is using tummy noises to try and diagnose IBS
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Could a recreational drug help to treat alcoholism?
Research trial uses MDMA, the active ingredient of the drug ecstasy, to treat alcoholism
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The obesity paradox
Why being overweight increases your risk of stroke, but also your chance of survival
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Why are women slow to get treatment for heart attacks?
New research from Poland which finds women take longer to ask for, and get help, than men
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Is expired medication safe to use?
A new study which reveals some drugs might last longer than we think.
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A New Blood Test For Measuring Pain
Could it help doctors work out the optimum painkillers for each patient?
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Does Being Congenitally Blind Protect Against Schizophrenia?
A large study which found no-one with early cortical blindness developed schizophrenia
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Do You Use Your Phone in the Night?
The results of a study on the night-time phone habits of 25,000 Radio Denmark listeners
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Is Slimness in the Genes?
How being naturally thin might not be a myth after all
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Happy Birthday to the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist!
Looking back at 10 years of the intervention that saves lives in the operating theatre
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Is a Lot of Tech Use Damaging Adolescent Well-Being?
New study finds the effect on teenage mental health is barely worse than eating potatoes
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Health Check Loneliness Part 2
How does loneliness impact health and can society change to help decrease loneliness?
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Health Check Loneliness Part 1
How does social media and friendship influence the development of loneliness?
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Neuromyths
Claudia Hammond explores some common myths in neuroscience
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Why Does It Take Longer to Get to Hospital in Poorer Areas of America?
The study looking at longer ambulance response times in lower income US neighbourhoods
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Does a Fifth of the Dose of the Yellow Fever Vaccine Work?
A clever way of getting round the shortage in yellow fever vaccine supplies
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World鈥檚 First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant
A healthy baby girl has been born after using a womb from a dead woman
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A Tribal Study Shedding Light on Blood Pressure
The remote South American tribe whose blood pressure doesn't appear to rise as they age
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The Health Impact of Smoke from Californian Wildfires
What short and long-term health problems have residents been suffering from?
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London Knife Crime
Should London鈥檚 violent crime be a 鈥榩ublic health issue鈥�?
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Melanoma Death Rates Higher in Men Than Women
Melanoma death rates are rising in men but static or falling in women
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What鈥檚 Behind a Spike of AFM Cases in the US?
The mysterious, rare, polio-like disease causing paralysis in young children in the US
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Stemming the Ebola Outbreak in the DRC
Ongoing violence and cultural issues preventing containment of the disease
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What鈥檚 the Irish CervicalCheck Crisis All About?
The scandal where women later diagnosed with cancer were given false smear test results
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Acanthamoeba Keratitis
New data on the rare but serious eye infection caused by an amoeba
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The World鈥檚 Biggest Loneliness Experiment
Who鈥檚 lonely in the world?
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India Health: Will Modicare be a Success?
India鈥檚 poorest to access free healthcare
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Daily Aspirin: Not for Healthy Elderly
Aspirin doesn鈥檛 protect healthy older people from heart attacks
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Europe Gets a Health Check
Europeans living longer - but obesity on the rise
