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Health Check Episodes

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    Does Being Congenitally Blind Protect Against Schizophrenia?

    A large study which found no-one with early cortical blindness developed schizophrenia

  2. Do You Use Your Phone in the Night?

    The results of a study on the night-time phone habits of 25,000 Radio Denmark listeners

  3. Is Slimness in the Genes?

    How being naturally thin might not be a myth after all

  4. Happy Birthday to the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist!

    Looking back at 10 years of the intervention that saves lives in the operating theatre

  5. Is a Lot of Tech Use Damaging Adolescent Well-Being?

    New study finds the effect on teenage mental health is barely worse than eating potatoes

  6. Health Check Loneliness Part 2

    How does loneliness impact health and can society change to help decrease loneliness?

  7. Health Check Loneliness Part 1

    How does social media and friendship influence the development of loneliness?

  8. Neuromyths

    Claudia Hammond explores some common myths in neuroscience

  9. Why Does It Take Longer to Get to Hospital in Poorer Areas of America?

    The study looking at longer ambulance response times in lower income US neighbourhoods

  10. Does a Fifth of the Dose of the Yellow Fever Vaccine Work?

    A clever way of getting round the shortage in yellow fever vaccine supplies

  11. World’s First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant

    A healthy baby girl has been born after using a womb from a dead woman

  12. A Tribal Study Shedding Light on Blood Pressure

    The remote South American tribe whose blood pressure doesn't appear to rise as they age

  13. The Health Impact of Smoke from Californian Wildfires

    What short and long-term health problems have residents been suffering from?

  14. London Knife Crime

    Should London’s violent crime be a ‘public health issue’?

  15. Melanoma Death Rates Higher in Men Than Women

    Melanoma death rates are rising in men but static or falling in women

  16. What’s Behind a Spike of AFM Cases in the US?

    The mysterious, rare, polio-like disease causing paralysis in young children in the US

  17. Stemming the Ebola Outbreak in the DRC

    Ongoing violence and cultural issues preventing containment of the disease

  18. What’s the Irish CervicalCheck Crisis All About?

    The scandal where women later diagnosed with cancer were given false smear test results

  19. Acanthamoeba Keratitis

    New data on the rare but serious eye infection caused by an amoeba

  20. The World’s Biggest Loneliness Experiment

    Who’s lonely in the world?

  21. India Health: Will Modicare be a Success?

    India’s poorest to access free healthcare

  22. Daily Aspirin: Not for Healthy Elderly

    Aspirin doesn’t protect healthy older people from heart attacks

  23. Europe Gets a Health Check

    Europeans living longer - but obesity on the rise

  24. More Problems for Zika Babies

    Babies born to women infected with Zika virus – more problems emerge in first year

  25. How to Spot a Deadly Bleed on the Brain

    How to spot the deadliest type of stroke which causes bleeding in the brain

  26. Genetic Link: Disrupted Sleep and Bipolar Disorder

    Genetic link between disrupted body clocks and mood disorders

  27. The Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Own Past

    When memory fails – and you can’t bear grudges

  28. The Latest on the New Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa

    Preparations for Ebola vaccinations in DRC.

  29. Does the Treatment for Cardiac Arrest Need to Change?

    Evidence that the use of adrenaline nearly doubles survivors’ risk of severe brain damage

  30. Happy 40th Birthday To The First Test-Tube Baby

    A special Health Check programme marking 40 years of in vitro fertilisation

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