Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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2025/12/10 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world. (R)
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2025/12/03 GMT
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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2025/11/26 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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What surpassing 1.5掳C means for global health
How can we protect global health in a world that will 鈥榠nevitably鈥� warm past 1.5 degrees?
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How impostors distort medical research
How to find human and bot impostors amongst real participants in health research
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How to prioritise aid in Gaza
What impact will aid deliveries have to health in Gaza
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Immune system researchers win Nobel Prize
We explain the science behind the Nobel winners
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Creating human eggs from skin cells
How cell reprogramming might help address infertility
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Trump鈥檚 unproven claims on autism and paracetamol
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
For the first time there are more overweight than underweight children globally
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The psychology of curiosity
Astronaut Tim Peake and panel discuss if curiosity is good for us
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Have we found a better alternative to aspirin?
An alternative blood thinner is showing improvements in warding off heart attack
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A breakthrough in treating chronic pain
A gene has been identified that is critical for regulating pain signals
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Using AI to discover new antibiotics
How AI has helped find potential new antibiotics to fight gonorrhoea and MRSA
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How plastic harms health
As negotiations conclude on a global treaty, we consider how plastic affects our health
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Malnutrition in Gaza
The impact of malnutrition on health and the aid needed in Gaza
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Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes
We assess a novel technique to combat malaria
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Do you really have a penicillin allergy?
How more accurate allergy labels would improve patient outcomes
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HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO
What difference could this make in the fight against HIV?
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First malaria treatment approved for newborns
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?
How phage-therapy could tackle antimicrobial resistance.
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Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide
Childhood vaccination coverage stalls despite huge progress since the 1970s
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Future thinking
How thinking about the future shapes our health and happiness
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Mpox surging in Sierra Leone
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
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
Research finds screening methods to pick up cancer in dense breasts much earlier
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A promising new antimalarial
A new antimalarial targets disease-causing parasites and lasts a year on mosquito nets
