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    Twisties and sporting mental health

    Twisties and sporting mental health. Shortsightedness in children during the pandemic

  2. Covid vaccination in prisons

    Covid vaccination in prisons; do incentives like free tuition get people to get the jab

  3. Could the flu vaccine protect against severe Covid-19?

    Assessing the evidence: Can the flu vaccine ameliorate the effects of covid-19?

  4. Mental health recovery stories

    How to help people going through mental health crises

  5. Lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2

    Is the lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2 evading vaccines?

  6. Mixing Covid vaccines

    Mixing Covid vaccines and spreading doses out. Have food labels in Chile reduced obesity?

  7. Tanzania joins Covax

    Tanzania joins Covax; the first national TB Survey in South Africa and lockdown memories

  8. New treatment for Covid

    New treatment for Covid; Vaccinating a whole town in Brazil; Protection against Dengue

  9. FDA approves new Alzheimer’s drug

    Controversial approval of new Alzheimer’s drug; news on chances of catching Covid twice.

  10. Black Fungus epidemic in India

    Could over the counter Steroids be driving the Black Fungus epidemic in India?

  11. Is kindness contagious?

    New research finds kindness really does spread according to scientists in California

  12. When to have your second vaccine dose?

    When to have your second Covid vaccine dose; Ovarian Cancer screening trial; Misophonia

  13. Is BMI an outdated risk measure?

    Is BMI an outdated measure for risk of type 2 diabetes in diverse ethnic groups?

  14. Tanzania's new Covid prevention measures

    Tanzania's new Covid prevention measures; celebrating the Windrush generation in theatre

  15. India’s Covid-19 surge

    India's Covid surge update. New Malaria Vaccine breakthrough. How moving helps our minds

  16. Medical mysteries with neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan

    Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan on medical mysteries from around the world

  17. Chile’s vaccine roll out

    Covid variants; India’s double mutant. Chile’s vaccine roll out. Dementia and sidewalks

  18. Mental Health and the long term implications of Covid

    Mental Health and Covid; Fukushima a decade on; Fast accurate saliva test for concussion

  19. Covid vaccines for children

    Covid vaccines for children and how to overcome hesitancy in parents

  20. Can the common cold prevent Covid?

    Can a cold prevent Covid, mental health in Covid medical staff, and our amazing heart.

  21. Vaccine and blood clots

    Covid vaccines and blood clots, Tanzania’s hidden epidemic? Haitian healthcare in Chile

  22. Do vaccines cure Long Covid?

    Long Covid and vaccines, blood transfusion myths, and Migraines

  23. Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination

    Health Check examines the issues around Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy

  24. Long Covid: solving the mysteries

    The UK has launched four major research programmes into Long Covid

  25. Covid surge in Mozambique

    Doctor in Mozambique’s largest hospital on the massive surge in Covid cases and deaths

  26. Covid vaccines: bad news, good news

    AstraZeneca vaccine disappoints in South Africa but may reduce virus spread elsewhere

  27. Covid-19 vaccines prevent 100% of deaths

    With a new slew of good Covid vaccine trial results, a remarkable trend emerges

  28. Brazilian city’s Covid crisis: ‘It’s like Hell’

    Health system meltdown as coronavirus infections surge in Manaus for a second time

  29. First days of India’s Covid vaccination programme

    India’s Covid mass vaccination begins. But there are questions

  30. WHO warns against vaccine rollout unfairness

    Are poorer countries missing out in the global vaccine rollout? A warning from the WHO

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