Health Check Podcast
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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Trump鈥檚 unproven claims on autism and paracetamol
Yesterday
We fact-check Trump鈥檚 claims that paracetamol is linked to an increased risk of autism
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More children are obese than underweight
Last Wednesday
For the first time there are more overweight than underweight children globally
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The psychology of curiosity
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Astronaut Tim Peake and panel discuss if curiosity is good for us
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Have we found a better alternative to aspirin?
Wed 3 Sep 2025
An alternative blood thinner is showing improvements in warding off heart attack
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A breakthrough in treating chronic pain
Wed 27 Aug 2025
A gene has been identified that is critical for regulating pain signals
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Using AI to discover new antibiotics
Wed 20 Aug 2025
How AI has helped find potential new antibiotics to fight gonorrhoea and MRSA
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How plastic harms health
Wed 13 Aug 2025
As negotiations conclude on a global treaty, we consider how plastic affects our health
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Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes
Wed 30 Jul 2025
We assess a novel technique to combat malaria
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Do you really have a penicillin allergy?
Wed 23 Jul 2025
How more accurate allergy labels would improve patient outcomes
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HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO
Wed 16 Jul 2025
What difference could this make in the fight against HIV?
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First malaria treatment approved for newborns
Wed 9 Jul 2025
The new dose strength is the first approved malaria treatment for neonates
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Can bacteria-eating viruses be used to fight superbugs?
Wed 2 Jul 2025
How phage-therapy could tackle antimicrobial resistance.
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Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Childhood vaccination coverage stalls despite huge progress since the 1970s
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Mpox surging in Sierra Leone
Wed 11 Jun 2025
As mpox cases rise in Sierra Leone we check-in on how the outbreak is progressing.
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Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes
Wed 4 Jun 2025
The impact exercise and a new immunotherapy drug regime is having for cancer patients.
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A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts
Wed 28 May 2025
Research finds screening methods to pick up cancer in dense breasts much earlier
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A promising new antimalarial
Wed 21 May 2025
A new antimalarial targets disease-causing parasites and lasts a year on mosquito nets
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Listening to your body's signals
Wed 14 May 2025
We explore what interoception is and how we can listen to internal signals in our body
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Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease
Wed 7 May 2025
A shingles vaccine unintentionally protects against heart disease for up to 8 years
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Mycetoma鈥檚 only research centre destroyed
Wed 30 Apr 2025
What happens when the world鈥檚 only research centre for a neglected disease is destroyed?
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WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
Wed 23 Apr 2025
WHO members have agreed to a draft treaty intended to make the world safer from pandemics
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Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Investigating the mystery of which animals form reservoirs of mpox in the wild.
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Zimbabwe government takes on 鈥榝riendship benches鈥�
Wed 2 Apr 2025
A famed Zimbabwean mental health intervention is being handed over to the government
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How do funding cuts feel?
Wed 26 Mar 2025
What does it feel like to be part of a study which might have its funding cut?
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Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
Wed 19 Mar 2025
A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is 鈥榣ikely unconstitutional鈥�
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Measles spreads in the Americas
Wed 12 Mar 2025
The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status
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Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
Wed 5 Mar 2025
How will large cuts to US aid affect global health?
