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Health Check Episodes

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    WHO Gets a New Director General

    After a hard fought campaign, the elections are over and the WHO has a new leader

  2. Dr Who - Who Will Lead The WHO?

    We ask the 3 finalists for the top job at the WHO why they should be its next leader

  3. Profound Psychological Impact of Heart Failure

    Why a diagnosis of heart failure can have a profound psychological impact

  4. Speed Up Wound-healing With Expressive Writing

    How writing about your own emotional events can speed up wound healing after an injury.

  5. The Lifesaving Drug You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    How using an old drug could stop thousands of women bleeding to death after childbirth

  6. Challenge to Arkansas’ Lethal Injection Drug

    The rush to execute prisoners in Arkansas before lethal injection drug passes use by date

  7. El Nino Shifts Cholera Outbreaks in Africa

    How the weather phenomenon El Nino influences where in Africa cholera outbreaks occur

  8. The Game Encouraging Medics to not use Jargon

    The card game challenging medics to stop using jargon words and simplify their language

  9. What Does Rest Really Mean?

    Doctors prescribe it for recovery – but for some “resting” might involve boxing or music

  10. Who is Best Suited to a Move to the Red Planet?

    What are the qualities required from those who want to travel to Mars?

  11. The ‘Weaponisation’ of Healthcare in Syria

    New report: Healthcare in Syria is being used as a weapon on an unprecedented scale

  12. Can Gas Stoves Cut Indoor Air Pollution?

    Replacing smoky cook stoves with gas - to improve the health of women and babies.

  13. Global Campaign to Protect Women’s Reproductive Rights

    ‘She Decides’- a coalition against USA’s global family planning funding cuts

  14. Mystery of Nodding Syndrome Revealed

    Epilepsy caused by parasitic worm behind nodding syndrome mystery.

  15. Yellow Fever: Brazil’s New Outbreak

    Alongside Zika, Brazil is now facing its worst yellow fever outbreak in 25 years

  16. How Uncertainty Makes us Dig our Heels in

    Dogmatic people become more entrenched in their views in times of uncertainty study shows

  17. Time Outdoors Cuts Risk of Short-Sight

    Could spending time outside help your eyesight?

  18. How to Spot Fake Health News

    How do we sift fact from fiction in stories about health in the news and social media?

  19. Exercising Away Back Pain

    Is exercise the key to preventing back pain?

  20. Getting the Best from Medicine

    Tackling the twin health threats of over and under-use of medicine around the world

  21. Bionic Bodies for Superhuman Powers?

    How advances in bionics is enhancing the human body, including a bionic eye for the blind

  22. Time Travelling in the Human Mind

    Are we the only creatures who can mentally time travel?

  23. Cooling the Brain Saves Lives

    Brain injury patients saved by cooling

  24. What’s Behind the Rise in Suicides in the Middle East?

    Conflict and economic hardship behind rise in suicides in Middle East

  25. How Memories are Made and Lost

    How memories are made and lost? Three prize winning scientists discuss latest research

  26. Insights into Mental Health from the Teenage Brain

    Teenage brains provide insights into mental health

  27. Libraries - Good for Your Health as Well as for Books?

    Can librarians improve people’s health?

  28. A Text a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

    Text alerts sent to heart attack and stroke patients reduce the risk of death

  29. What’s the Mind Doing When it is Daydreaming?

    Claudia Hammond peers inside the wandering mind

  30. Fashion to Protect Pregnant Women Against Zika

    Clothing to protect pregnant women against zika in El Salvador

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