Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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01/11/2010
A woman's ability to conceive in her 30s or 40s might be affected by her blood type
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25/10/2010
Are you a worrier? A psychologist explains how to reduce the time you spend worrying
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18/10/2010
Saving large crowds from spreading disease
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11/10/2010
Scientists have made a breakthrough in Parkinson's Disease, giving hope of new therapies
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04/10/2010
Maternal health or vaccinating children? Another debate on how to improve global health
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27/09/2010
Clean water or girls' education? The second of four debates on improving global health
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20/09/2010
Innovation or medical staff? The first of four debates on improving global health
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13/09/2010
Remembering Sir Patrick Manson, the 'Father of Tropical Disease'
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06/09/2010
Claudia Hammond tells the story of SB, who transformed the field of visual perception
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30/08/2010
Claudia Hammond revisits classic case studies that have advanced psychological research
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23/08/2010
Strange objects which have turned up in people's airways
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16/08/2010
Could a new form of resistant superbug spell the end for antibiotics
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09/08/2010
Can literature help doctors and nurses understand mental illness? Claudia Hammond reports
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02/08/2010
Claudia Hammond reports on new research showing how education may lower dementia risk
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26/07/2010
New research on the problems facing people living into old age with HIV.
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19/07/2010
Claudia Hammond reports on head size & Alzheimer's disease, and heart failure treatment.
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12/07/2010
Why a lack of exercise may not necessarily be causing childhood obesity.
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05/07/2010
Fifty years after the pill's invention, why is there no male equivalent?
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28/06/2010
Oil spill health effects. Menopause test. Fake psychiatric patients. Mobile phone masts.
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21/06/2010
Henrietta Lacks; new definitions of psychiatric conditions; premature babies and pain.
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14/06/2010
Solitary confinement, lead poisoning in Nigeria, Savant syndrome and Restless Legs.
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07/06/2010
Gay men & blood donation. Sex & sport. Georgia health. Women's groups and babies' health.
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31/05/2010
Teeth brushing and heart disease; left-handedness; salivary stones; inhalable vaccine
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24/05/2010
Worldwide shortage of medical isotopes. PACO in Buenos Aires. Tinnitus. Smallpox and HIV.
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17/05/2010
Smallpox. Polypill to combat heart disease. Sleeplessness in Cairo. Autism and migration.
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10/05/2010
Viewing the dead after traumatic death. Should toddlers watch TV? Prostate cancer.
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03/05/2010
The psychology of face recognition. Why can’t some people recognise their own children?
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26/04/2010
Why black and Asian Britons are reluctant to volunteer as blood and organ donors?
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19/04/2010
Health benefits of barefoot running; endurance running; the G8 maternal health initiative
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12/04/2010
Health messages: too scary? Indian generic drugs; Egypt pregnancy screening; Men's health