Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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2025/06/25 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2025/06/18 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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Health Check
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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A promising new antimalarial
A new antimalarial targets disease-causing parasites and lasts a year on mosquito nets (R)
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Listening to your body's signals
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
A shingles vaccine unintentionally protects against heart disease for up to 8 years
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Mycetoma鈥檚 only research centre destroyed
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
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?
Investigating the mystery of which animals form reservoirs of mpox in the wild.
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The Kidney Waiting Game
What it's like to give, receive, and wait for a kidney.
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Zimbabwe government takes on 鈥榝riendship benches鈥�
A famed Zimbabwean mental health intervention is being handed over to the government
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How do funding cuts feel?
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
A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is 鈥榣ikely unconstitutional鈥�
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Measles spreads in the Americas
The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status
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Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
How will large cuts to US aid affect global health?
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Improving global encephalitis care
Encephalitis can be a debilitating condition. How do we improve diagnosis and treatment?
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The global oxygen crisis
The global need for medical oxygen is high, but there are huge access gaps to tackle.
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The psychology of nostalgia
Can we harness nostalgia for our own wellbeing?
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Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness
Guinea uses novel approach to eliminate disease.
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USA issues stop-work order on global aid
President Trump has stopped work on foreign aid projects.
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A WHO without the United States
What happens if the United States withdraws from the WHO?
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The toll of wildfires on health
What are the long-term health effects of wildfires that persist even once extinguished?
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Should we be worried about HMPV?
We look behind the headlines to reality check what is going on with HMPV.
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A Malawi 鈥楽pay Day鈥�
How can a 鈥楽pay Day鈥� help stop the spread of rabies?
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One Health in Malawi
Claudia meets the vets who are treating animals in order to protect people from disease.
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2024 in global health: a review
Which stories shaped global health in 2024?
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Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit
Scientists trial a malaria vaccine delivered by mosquito bites, showing promising results
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Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations
New study finds genetic links to how and when South Asian populations develop diabetes
