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Health Check Episodes

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    Insulin availability

    Insulin has been around for 90 years, why is this treatment for diabetes still so limited?

  2. Implants from the dead and crowds giving life

    Implants from the dead to prolong life. Mental health in US politics and feel good crowds.

  3. YAWS, Mosquito App, Guilty bosses

    YAWS disease in Congo, why phone Apps can't beat malaria and why a good boss feels guilt

  4. Eco-therapy

    Eco-therapy, empathising with nature as a treatment for mental illness.

  5. Extreme Skydiving and Health

    What effect did Felix Baumgartner's remarkable fall to Earth have on his body?

  6. International Mental Health Day

    The state of mental health provision in developing countries.

  7. Surgery and unwanted items

    Things left behind in surgery, biodegradable electronics and kidney dialysis in Gaza

  8. HIV

    Imprisoned in hospital, why HIV affects men more than women and a viral cure for acne

  9. Outbreaks of Ebola and Hantavirus

    Viruses are no respecter of economic barriers, dealing death in rich and poor countries

  10. 12/09/2012

    Addressing maternal mortality, new ways to fund healthcare and myths about sperm.

  11. 05/09/2012

    Why did fatal car accidents rise in the US by 1,600 in the year after 11 September 2001?

  12. Alcohol and cancer

    Alcohol and cancer risk, and the dangers of painkiller misuse

  13. 15/08/2012

    Baby mind games. Weights cut diabetes risk. And turning young doctors into 70 year olds

  14. Julian Rotter - Locus Of Control

    Is your life down to dumb luck? Or do you make your own luck?

  15. 01/08/2012

    Better health care for more people for less money. Global summit in London shows how.

  16. 25/07/2012

    Aids 2012 conference and the clinic for athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.

  17. 18/07/2012

    New findings on the polypill for heart disease and stroke prevention.

  18. Joseph Wolpe - Phobias

    Joseph Wolpe - the psychiatrist who transformed the treatment of phobias.

  19. 04/07/2012

    Sudden cardiac death in athletes, genes vs smoking in lung disease, science of laughter.

  20. 27/06/2012

    Medicinal uses of psychedelic plants and fungi, and the safe use of Chinese Medicine.

  21. 20/06/2012

    Yemen food crisis. Fantasy computer game as good as therapy? Benefits of a cup of coffee.

  22. 13/06/2012

    The shortage of critical medicines in Greece as a result of the debt crisis

  23. 06/06/2012

    The results of a major trial which hoped that cannabis might slow down progression of MS

  24. 30/05/2012

    The rabies outbreak in Peru which has killed seven children

  25. 23/05/2012

    Spanish health reforms; Eating for two when pregnant; Taking therapy to the streets

  26. 16/05/2012

    Texting HIV results to save babies鈥� lives in Zambia

  27. 09/05/2012

    Drop in childhood deaths 鈥� in African Millennium Villages

  28. 02/05/2012

    More than a million babies die every year 鈥� the toll of premature birth

  29. 25/04/2012

    Haiti, a cure for blushing and the effects of wintering in Antarctica

  30. 18/04/2012

    Olympic health planning and the 40th anniversary of the CT Scan.

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