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Health Check — 314 episodes
The health threat of rising temperatures
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Why are some people microdosing weight loss drugs?
Steering in the right direction to road safety
USA military launches testosterone screening programme
HIV fears due to Niger’s anti-gay laws
Health challenges after Venezuela earthquakes
Ebola drug trials in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Lack of evidence most IVF ‘add-ons’ improve fertility
The global toll of food poisoning
How reading fiction impacts our mental health
Health at the football World Cup
Seafarer welfare in the Strait of Hormuz
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Why renaming a health condition matters
Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship
Psychedelic drugs as treatment
Making surgery safer for infants
Risky requests for unvaccinated blood on the rise
How awe can boost your health
What next for sunscreen in Australia?
Antimicrobial resistance in conflict zones
Does your home country impact your cancer risk?
Using lasers to fight brain cancer
Do collagen supplements really do anything?
Could a single vaccine block nearly all viruses?
Surviving without lungs for 48 hours
Are statins safer than we thought?
Why do some people hoard?
South African coming-of-age initiations
Could the shingles vaccine really slow down the ageing process?
What effect does exercise really have on depression?
China’s latest bid to boost its birth rate
How can we eliminate malaria?
2025: A big year for tackling malaria
Behind the Huntington’s disease breakthrough
Shingles vaccine slows the progression of dementia
The risky use of skin lightening in children
Childhood hypertension becomes more common
The disappearing mid-life crisis
Canada loses measles elimination status
Cloud seeding to cut air pollution in Delhi
What surpassing 1.5°C means for global health
How impostors distort medical research
How to prioritise aid in Gaza
Immune system researchers win Nobel Prize
Creating human eggs from skin cells
Trump’s unproven claims on autism and paracetamol
More children are obese than underweight
The psychology of curiosity
Have we found a better alternative to aspirin?
A breakthrough in treating chronic pain
Using AI to discover new antibiotics
How plastic harms health
Malnutrition in Gaza
Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes
Do you really have a penicillin allergy?
HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO
First malaria treatment approved for newborns
Can bacteria-eating viruses be used to fight superbugs?
Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide
Future thinking
Mpox surging in Sierra Leone
Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes
A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts
A promising new antimalarial
Listening to your body's signals
Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease
Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed
WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
The Kidney Waiting Game
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
How do funding cuts feel?
Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
Measles spreads in the Americas
Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
Improving global encephalitis care
The global oxygen crisis
The psychology of nostalgia
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness
USA issues stop-work order on global aid
A WHO without the United States
The toll of wildfires on health
Should we be worried about HMPV?
A Malawi ‘Spay Day’
One Health in Malawi
2024 in global health: a review
Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit
Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations
Health crisis in Sudan
Resistance to leading malaria drug
What a Trump presidency means for global health
Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease
Weight loss gold rush
Organ transplant in HIV+ patients
Rapid malaria diagnoses
Micro RNA wins Nobel
Mpox widens its reach
Vector-borne diseases
Polio Vaccination in Afghanistan
Haiti: Healthcare in the Midst of Conflict
The race to distribute Mpox vaccines
Living with a new brain
The latest on the mpox public health emergency
Catching up with Covid
MPox outbreak worsens
World’s first Oropouche deaths in Brazil
Systemic racism in health care
Toxic positivity
Steps forward and back in the battle again HIV
Can light emitting bandages treat cancer?
New MPox strain in DRC
Why is exercise good for your mental health?
Is using the internet good for us?
New human cases of bird flu
How long will we live in future?
Medical Innovations
Whooping cough on the rise
Conflict's impact on a neglected disease
What’s happening with girls’ mental health?
Is turbulence injuring more and more flyers?
Nigeria rolls out world’s first 5-in-1 meningitis vaccine
How we hope
Puerto Rico declares dengue fever emergency
Pig kidney transplanted into patient
Should we stop talking about long Covid?
A promising new cancer treatment
One billion obese people
Junior doctors strike in South Korea
Global Trade v Health Equality
Dengue outbreak in Latin America
Getting vaccinations to remote South Sudan
Surviving Noma disease
Cape Verde eliminates malaria
Endurance
Are outcomes better with female surgeons?
2024 in global health
A year in health in review
When will we have an HIV vaccine?
Closer to a cure for morning sickness
How do we know when a mystery illness is serious?
New Zealand backtracks on smoking ban
Gene editing treatment approved for sickle cell
Vaccinating children against chickenpox
A drug to prevent breast cancer
Warnings over antibiotic resistance in children
A musician’s story of coping with schizophrenia
Cholera cases surge in Zimbabwe
US proposes world first policy to reduce STIs
Malaria vaccine backed by WHO
The deadly practice of gum lancing
Could global Aids program be cut?
Do men have a friendship problem?
Opioid overdose antidote made available in US
What happened to babies with Zika virus
Disgraced surgeon appeals prison sentence
Contaminated cough syrup found in Iraq
A closer look at leprosy
Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit
Playing catch up on childhood immunisations
A new era for Alzheimer’s drugs?
Sickle cell disease: Fighting for the future
Drumming for a healthy life
The future of HIV research in Africa
Healthcare under threat in Myanmar
A step closer to a Chikungunya vaccine
China's Covid-19 lockdown: What happened next?
Uganda's anti-gay law and healthcare
What can we do about back pain?
Home testing kits for disease screening
Giving small babies a better start
Keeping hospitals open in Khartoum
Why we need more black doctors
Malaria vaccines approved first in West Africa
New way of giving lifesaving drug in childbirth
Women aren’t being promoted in healthcare
Could armpit sweat help tackle anxiety?
How giving babies peanut butter could cut allergy
Obesity drug: New hope for weight loss?
How to cope with earthquake trauma
Vaccines: A tale of the unexpected
Supporting Ukrainian children
Biting back: The fight against snakebite
Can heat affect mental health?
Back from the brink
After the floods
The ‘Endo-Monster inside me’
Family’s gene therapy journey
Regret
Can you knit away your worries?
Biggest health stories of the year
Liver drug could be repurposed for Covid
How words can save lives
'Historic' turning point for Alzheimer's
How to make surgery safer
Genetic disorders and US abortion bans
Psychological nudges for HIV treatment
Livers that live longer than we do
Long Covid – the latest
Women and children’s health hit by disasters and Covid
Can a new star system help us to eat healthily?
'Historic' claims for new Alzheimer’s drug
Floods spreading disease in Pakistan
Egypt’s hepatitis C success story
Malaria vaccine effective
China approves first inhaled Covid vaccine
Statins rarely cause muscle pain
Deaths cut with recommended Ebola treatments
Transplant hope as kidney blood groups swapped
“Virtual” hospital visits cut relatives’ distress
Can you be a kind boss?
Pure kindness
Marburg virus cases confirmed
New Covid booster recommendations
Handy third thumb
Polio misinformation
Poor Covid immunity after Omicron
Next generation Covid vaccines
What brain scans tell us
Monkeypox misinformation and stigma
Monkeypox in central Africa
Healthcare provision in North Korea
New trial results of a fourth Covid booster
Combined protection of Covid vaccination and prior infection
New Covid Research
Are we kinder to people like us?
More cases of Covid in Africa than official figures suggest
Treating stress and anxiety in Ukraine
What should Hong Kong do about Covid-19?
The kindness test: The results
How children think about maths and time
Helping children cope with anxiety about war in Ukraine
Why measles is sweeping through Afghanistan
Pig organs for transplant patients
Black women and breast cancer
Bringing death back into life
Gene therapy hope for sickle cell patients
Are people with asthma who exercise healthier?
Omicron set to infect half of Europe
Home working versus the office
Do our pets care about us?
New research on the Omicron variant
Omicron update
Omicron variant news
Omicron Covid variant – what do we know?
Covid cases across Europe
T-cell Covid protection before the pandemic
New antiviral pills to treat Covid
Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2
Mix and match Covid vaccines
New Covid vaccine
The legacy of Henrietta Lacks
New antiviral Covid pill
Reducing mental health stigma
Covid in Vietnam
Art, gardening and wellbeing during Covid
The Kindness Test
Antibody cocktails against Covid
The psychology of courage and bravery
Impact of wildfires
Twisties and sporting mental health
Covid vaccination in prisons
Could the flu vaccine protect against severe Covid-19?
Mental health recovery stories
Lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2
Mixing Covid vaccines
Tanzania joins Covax
New treatment for Covid
FDA approves new Alzheimer’s drug
Black Fungus epidemic in India
Is kindness contagious?
When to have your second vaccine dose?
Is BMI an outdated risk measure?
Tanzania's new Covid prevention measures
India’s Covid-19 surge
Medical mysteries with neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan
Chile’s vaccine roll out
Mental Health and the long term implications of Covid
Can we eradicate leprosy?
Covid vaccines for children
Working with disability
Can the common cold prevent Covid?
Combatting mental illness
Vaccine and blood clots
Covid-19 vaccination in Africa
Do vaccines cure Long Covid?
Modern medicine versus the spirits
Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination
Africa’s blood shortage
Long Covid: solving the mysteries
Sexual health, Covid-19 vaccines
Covid surge in Mozambique
Superbugs and superfoods
Covid vaccines: bad news, good news
Vaccinating Africa against Covid-19
Covid-19 vaccines prevent 100% of deaths
Brazilian city’s Covid crisis: ‘It’s like Hell’
First days of India’s Covid vaccination programme
WHO warns against vaccine rollout unfairness
The first year of the pandemic
How children think about maths and time
Ambiguous loss: a different kind of grief
In Iran, one in five infected by coronavirus
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease
Milestone in HIV prevention for women
Another week, another Covid-19 vaccine success
Measles outbreak threat due to Covid
Covid vaccine ‘90% effective’
Covid-19 vaccines: Unknowns and dilemmas
Covid-19 plasma therapy trial results ‘disappointing’
Coronavirus update
Autism: the problems of fitting in
Lighting the brain after birth