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Health Check Episodes

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    Harnessing the Placebo Effect

    How the labelling of a placebo can make it as effective as drugs in migraine pain relief

  2. Pneumonic Plague in Madagascar

    What has caused these recent deadly outbreaks?

  3. Twenty-five Years of Neuroscience

    Developments in neuroscience and how our understanding of the brain has changed

  4. The Musical Brain

    From the emotional stimuli of music to how the brain identifies musical patterns

  5. Children鈥檚 Declining Fitness

    Why today鈥檚 children are on average 15% slower at running than their parents

  6. Healthy Habits and Dementia

    How a healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk of developing dementia by 60%

  7. Healthcare in Danger

    The increasing perils for medical personnel working in conflict zones

  8. Bedtime Aspirin

    How taking aspirin at night may reduce the risk of a heart attack in the morning

  9. Children of Jannah

    The UK charity providing specialist bereavement support for Muslims

  10. The myths concerning people鈥檚 health after natural disasters

    Is it really true that spread of disease is inevitable or that dead bodies pose a risk?

  11. Intersex

    Germany gives legal rights for people who do not fit the two genders of male or female

  12. Unemployment as a Health Issue

    WHO launches a campaign to address the link between health and unemployment

  13. Polio in Syria

    A suspected outbreak in Syria where vaccination rates have been slashed

  14. Vaccine for HPV in Laos

    Anti-cervical cancer vaccine for girls where there is no screening or radiotherapy

  15. Haitian Health Care

    The challenges facing health care in Haiti three years on from its devastating earthquake

  16. Reform of US Health System?

    What will the US health reforms of universal health insurance mean for Americans?

  17. Awake and Anaesthetised

    A new survey looking at the number of people who are aware during general anaesthesia

  18. Indigenous Rights and Medicine

    How medical students in Canada are training to provide appropriate health care

  19. Tablets for Kids

    Is medicine in tablet form better for children to take instead of liquid medicine?

  20. Child Psychologist Anna Freud

    How Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's daughter, revolutionised the way we think about children

  21. The Case of Henry Molaison

    The neurological patient with amnesia who contributed to our understanding of memory

  22. Health Data and Ethnicity

    A new report calling for ethnicity to be taken into account when health data is collected

  23. Window into the Brain

    Why looking at the condition of blood vessels in the retina can help predict strokes

  24. Height and Cancer

    What is the link between how tall someone is and the risk of getting cancer?

  25. What Doctors Feel

    How do emotions affect physicians and the way they treat patients?

  26. The Occupational Hazards of Herring Processing

    Why oily fish are good to eat, but not so great if you inhale their microscopic particles

  27. Abraham Maslow鈥檚 Hierarchy of Needs

    What motivates humans and drives them to accomplish all they are capable of?

  28. James Pennebaker

    How psychologist James Pennebaker showed writing about your emotions can improve health

  29. Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

    Could essential oils such as lavender and thyme be replacements for antibiotics?

  30. Falling Diabetes Mortality

    Why fewer people have been dying from diabetes in the UK and Canada in the last 15 years

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