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Health Check Episodes

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    Bionic Bodies for Superhuman Powers?

    How advances in bionics is enhancing the human body, including a bionic eye for the blind

  2. Time Travelling in the Human Mind

    Are we the only creatures who can mentally time travel?

  3. Cooling the Brain Saves Lives

    Brain injury patients saved by cooling

  4. What鈥檚 Behind the Rise in Suicides in the Middle East?

    Conflict and economic hardship behind rise in suicides in Middle East

  5. How Memories are Made and Lost

    How memories are made and lost? Three prize winning scientists discuss latest research

  6. Insights into Mental Health from the Teenage Brain

    Teenage brains provide insights into mental health

  7. Libraries - Good for Your Health as Well as for Books?

    Can librarians improve people鈥檚 health?

  8. A Text a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

    Text alerts sent to heart attack and stroke patients reduce the risk of death

  9. What鈥檚 the Mind Doing When it is Daydreaming?

    Claudia Hammond peers inside the wandering mind

  10. Fashion to Protect Pregnant Women Against Zika

    Clothing to protect pregnant women against zika in El Salvador

  11. Tasers鈥� Effect on the Mind

    Tasers inflict physical agony, but what about their effect on the mind?

  12. Women Feel Empowered by Online Abortions

    Irish women opt for online abortions instead of costly travel to English clinics

  13. Poverty Fuels Disease in Rich Countries

    Tropical diseases of poverty spreading in rich countries

  14. Warning Over Skin-Lightening Injections

    Skin expert warns of dangers of skin-lightening injections

  15. Finding Rest in the Modern World

    Claudia Hammond and guests reveal the Rest test results and analyses how the world relaxes

  16. New Global Health Check

    Improving the health of everyone by aiming for the Sustainable Development Goals

  17. Should Hillary Tell All About Her Health?

    Do health problems hold world leaders back?

  18. People With Mental Health Problems Can't Vote or Marry in Third of UN Member States

    A new survey highlights the discrimination against people with mental illness

  19. Social Media and Depression

    Can Instagram diagnose depression?

  20. Olympic Minds: Retirement

    How do former athletes redefine their lives after retiring from elite competition?

  21. Olympic Minds: Football

    How footballers can overcome their fear of the penalty.

  22. Olympic Minds: Tennis 1/3

    The first of a special series. What mental skills are needed to become a champion?

  23. What Future for Babies of Women Infected with Zika?

    What does the future hold for the babies of women infected with Zika in Puerto Rico?

  24. Treating Gunshot Victims

    When treating gunshot victims, could paramedics do more to save them by doing less

  25. Fighting Antimicrobrial Resistance

    The search for new antibiotic producing bacteria as drug resistant infections increases

  26. Living Under a Noisy Flightpath Can Cause Mental Health Problems

    Can living under the flightpath of an airport increase your risk of developing depression?

  27. Cutting-edge Medicine from the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

    How to stop disease-carrying mosquitoes by tracking their movements on camera

  28. How War and Conflict Have Helped to Improve Medical Treatments

    How medical advances grew out of necessity on the battlefields

  29. How Changing Abortion Laws Around the World Affects Women鈥檚 Health

    When abortion is illegal women who try to end their pregnancies can harm their health

  30. First Maps of Diseases Which Spread from Animals to Humans

    Bats are not to blame for spreading as many human diseases as we think

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