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All Episodes

Health Check — 108 episodes

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1

New Zealand backtracks on smoking ban

2

Gene editing treatment approved for sickle cell

3

Vaccinating children against chickenpox

4

A drug to prevent breast cancer

5

Warnings over antibiotic resistance in children

6

A musician’s story of coping with schizophrenia

7

Cholera cases surge in Zimbabwe

8

US proposes world first policy to reduce STIs

9

Malaria vaccine backed by WHO

10

The deadly practice of gum lancing

11

Could global Aids program be cut?

12

Do men have a friendship problem?

13

Opioid overdose antidote made available in US

14

Hunt for rare resistance to SARS CoV-2

15

New antiviral pills to treat Covid

16

T-cell Covid protection before the pandemic

17

Covid cases across Europe

18

Omicron Covid variant – what do we know?

19

Omicron variant news

20

Omicron update

21

Do our pets care about us?

22

New research on the Omicron variant

23

Home working versus the office

24

Omicron set to infect half of Europe

25

Are people with asthma who exercise healthier?

26

Gene therapy hope for sickle cell patients

27

Bringing death back into life

28

Black women and breast cancer

29

Pig organs for transplant patients

30

Why measles is sweeping through Afghanistan

31

Helping children cope with anxiety about war in Ukraine

32

How children think about maths and time

33

The kindness test: The results

34

What should Hong Kong do about Covid-19?

35

Are we kinder to people like us?

36

Treating stress and anxiety in Ukraine

37

More cases of Covid in Africa than official figures suggest

38

New Covid Research

39

Combined protection of Covid vaccination and prior infection

40

New trial results of a fourth Covid booster

41

Healthcare provision in North Korea

42

Monkeypox in central Africa

43

Monkeypox misinformation and stigma

44

What brain scans tell us

45

Next generation Covid vaccines

46

Poor Covid immunity after Omicron

47

Polio misinformation

48

Handy third thumb

49

New Covid booster recommendations

50

Marburg virus cases confirmed

51

Pure kindness

52

Can you be a kind boss?

53

“Virtual” hospital visits cut relatives’ distress

54

Transplant hope as kidney blood groups swapped

55

Deaths cut with recommended Ebola treatments

56

Statins rarely cause muscle pain

57

China approves first inhaled Covid vaccine

58

Malaria vaccine effective

59

Egypt’s hepatitis C success story

60

Floods spreading disease in Pakistan

61

'Historic' claims for new Alzheimer’s drug

62

Can a new star system help us to eat healthily?

63

Women and children’s health hit by disasters and Covid

64

Long Covid – the latest

65

Livers that live longer than we do

66

Psychological nudges for HIV treatment

67

Genetic disorders and US abortion bans

68

How to make surgery safer

69

'Historic' turning point for Alzheimer's

70

How words can save lives

71

Liver drug could be repurposed for Covid

72

Biggest health stories of the year

73

Family’s gene therapy journey

74

Can you knit away your worries?

75

Regret

76

The ‘Endo-Monster inside me’

77

After the floods

78

Back from the brink

79

Can heat affect mental health?

80

Biting back: The fight against snakebite

81

Supporting Ukrainian children

82

Vaccines: A tale of the unexpected

83

How to cope with earthquake trauma

84

Obesity drug: New hope for weight loss?

85

How giving babies peanut butter could cut allergy

86

Could armpit sweat help tackle anxiety?

87

Women aren’t being promoted in healthcare

88

New way of giving lifesaving drug in childbirth

89

Malaria vaccines approved first in West Africa

90

Why we need more black doctors

91

Keeping hospitals open in Khartoum

92

Giving small babies a better start

93

Home testing kits for disease screening

94

What can we do about back pain?

95

Uganda's anti-gay law and healthcare

96

China's Covid-19 lockdown: What happened next?

97

A step closer to a Chikungunya vaccine

98

Healthcare under threat in Myanmar

99

The future of HIV research in Africa

100

Drumming for a healthy life

101

Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit

102

Sickle cell disease: Fighting for the future

103

A new era for Alzheimer’s drugs?

104

Playing catch up on childhood immunisations

105

A closer look at leprosy

106

Contaminated cough syrup found in Iraq

107

Disgraced surgeon appeals prison sentence

108

What happened to babies with Zika virus