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Health Check Episodes

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    Treating Gunshot Victims

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

  2. Fighting Antimicrobrial Resistance

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

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

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

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

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

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

    How medical advances grew out of necessity on the battlefields

  6. 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

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

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

  8. Switching Off the Noisy Alarms in Hospitals Which Don鈥檛 Aid Recovery

    How alternatives to noisy hospital alarms could help intensive care patients

  9. Are Laws on Marketing Formula Milk Tough Enough?

    A report by WHO and Unicef reveals the status of national laws to regulate formula milk.

  10. New Shorter Treatment Offers Hope to TB Patients

    A new, shorter treatment for drug-resistant TB offers hope to patients around the world

  11. Health Advice for Gay Men Where Being Gay is Illegal

    Risks taken by health workers advising gay men in countries where homosexuality is illegal

  12. Vapers Urged to Keep e-Liquids Away from Young Children

    US researchers report an increase in children poisoning themselves with e-cigarette fuel

  13. The Race for the Biggest Job in Global Health

    Is it the turn of an African country to get the biggest job in global health?

  14. It's In Your Head

    The Wellcome Book Prize for 2016 was won this week by neurologist Dr Suzanne O鈥橲ullivan

  15. Concussion Test

    A blood test to spot concussion could be just five years away

  16. Yellow Fever Outbreak in Angola Worsens Vaccine Shortage

    Outbreak of yellow fever in Angola kills more than 200

  17. Ketamine: Party Drug and Essential Anaesthetic in Africa

    Impact on Surgery in Africa if Cheap Anaesthetic & Party Drug Ketamine Becomes Controlled

  18. The Crunch Effect: Why we Should Listen as we Eat

    Hearing yourself eating may help you to eat less new study shows

  19. People with Autism Die Decades Before General Population

    A recent Swedish study finds those with ASD die on average 16 years before those without

  20. Long-term Neurological Problems in Liberian Ebola Survivors

    A new study finds brain symptoms being experienced by most, six months after infection

  21. One Man鈥檚 Mission to Prevent Suicides

    The Australian sheep farmer who writes and places suicide prevention ads in local papers

  22. The American Psychologist Carl Rogers

    A special programme on the man said to be the father of counselling

  23. Eating Seafood Linked to Less Alzheimer鈥檚 in the Brain

    A new study finds that a portion of fish every week may stave off the disease

  24. The Medical Scandal Engulfing top Swedish University

    The 鈥淢acchiarini affair鈥� which involved ground-breaking surgery with artificial windpipes

  25. Women with Microcephaly Babies Being Abandoned

    The Brazilian men leaving their wives who have given birth to babies with microcephaly

  26. The Essential Guide to Zika

    A Health Check special on everything you need to know about Zika

  27. Is Catching Up with Sleep Good for Your Health?

    A new study finds a lie-in mitigates the increased diabetes risk after sleep deprivation

  28. The Deadly Disease Melioidosis

    A little known but ancient disease killing more people than measles

  29. An App to Help the Health of Migrants

    MedShr, a medical education platform being used by doctors in refugee camps

  30. Emergency Declared After 4,000 Brazilian Babies Born with Microcephaly

    Why have 4000 babies in Brazil been born with a brain that has not fully developed?

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