Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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The Human Race: Special Live 80th Anniversary Show
Claudia Hammond will be finding out what makes elite athletes so special.
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22/02/2012
Paying people to be healthy, old drug for TB, cleaning umbilical cords saves babies' lives
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15/02/2012
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.
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08/02/2012
Was it right for the CIA to use a doctor to help track down Osama Bin Laden?
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01/02/2012
Water pipe smoking more harmful than cigarettes, health on the web and doctors and obesity
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25/01/2012
The row over a French documentary on autism; Epilepsy medication in Kenya; Owls v Larks
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18/01/2012
Hepatitis C can destroy the liver - will a new vaccine mean the end for the virus?
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11/01/2012
Nicotine patches to help memory loss, HIV and circumcision, frozen embryos good for IVF.
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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, fast and slow
A 2012 interview with the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist
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28/12/2011
Claudia Hammond reports on the progress of Romanian orphanage babies adopted 21 years ago.
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21/12/2011
Sunshine and chicken pox; Wellcome Book Prize; silent strokes and sickle cell disease.
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14/12/2011
How a British man tested a new painkiller on himself 鈥� which is 50 years old this week
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07/12/2011
Do face masks protect the lungs against smog?
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30/11/2011
Developing countries take action against "lifestyle" diseases.
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23/11/2011
What's made a difference in the dramatic drop in the number of new HIV cases?
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16/11/2011
Could a different cut-off point for calculating obesity in South Asians fight diabetes?
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09/11/2011
Keeping track of flu - how you the patient can help scientists to monitor outbreaks.
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02/11/2011
New DIY cervical smear test, vitamin C and colds, report on palliative care worldwide
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26/10/2011
How some low income countries manage to make an impact on health with few resources.
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19/10/2011
Attempts in Australia to sell cigarettes in plain packaging to reduce deaths from smoking.
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12/10/2011
Should donors be tougher on poor countries to encourage them to invest more in healthcare?
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05/10/2011
Could guinea worm disease soon be eradicated? Some predict it will happen as soon at 2019
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28/09/2011
Rising numbers of suicides in Greece as a result of the economic and social crisis
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21/09/2011
Using diaries to help avoid the trauma of frightening hallucinations in intensive care
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14/09/2011
Will next week鈥檚 high-level UN meeting on NCDs result in a global plan of action?
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07/09/2011
Are a smile and a sneer the same everywhere? Research on the facial expression of emotions
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31/08/2011
An emergency doctor in Tripoli tells Health Check about the latest medical situation.
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24/08/2011
Super resistant gonorrhea; Fasting during the Olympics and children going hungry in the US
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17/08/2011
Power naps; UN disease summit breakdown; Smoking risks for women; Abused kids & depression
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10/08/2011
The woman with no fingerprints and discovery of the gene mutation behind it
