Health Check Episodes Available now

22/02/2010
Severe dengue outbreak in South America. Mindfulness. Hot weather advice.

15/02/2010
Q Fever, memory and pregnancy, the hospital gown, the difference between mind and brain.

08/02/2010
Banking sleep. Why was swine flu so mild? MMR paper retracted. Functional foods in Japan.

01/02/2010
Surgeon Dr Atul Gawande tells us about simple but ingenious solutions to medical problems.

25/01/2010
Soap Operas With A Mission: how radio and TV are delivering health messages.

18/01/2010
Health Check investigates the downside of being positive for cancer patients.

11/01/2010
Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in cystic fibrosis clinical trials.

04/01/2010
Why do patients volunteer for clinical trials - just to get better or for the common good?

28/12/2009
Should people be rewarded for donating their organs for transplants?

21/12/2009
Good news from the WHO’s latest Malaria Report and should schizophrenia be renamed?