Health Check Episodes Available now
15/02/2012
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.
08/02/2012
Was it right for the CIA to use a doctor to help track down Osama Bin Laden?
01/02/2012
Water pipe smoking more harmful than cigarettes, health on the web and doctors and obesity
25/01/2012
The row over a French documentary on autism; Epilepsy medication in Kenya; Owls v Larks
18/01/2012
Hepatitis C can destroy the liver - will a new vaccine mean the end for the virus?
11/01/2012
Nicotine patches to help memory loss, HIV and circumcision, frozen embryos good for IVF.
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, fast and slow
A 2012 interview with the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist
28/12/2011
Claudia Hammond reports on the progress of Romanian orphanage babies adopted 21 years ago.
21/12/2011
Sunshine and chicken pox; Wellcome Book Prize; silent strokes and sickle cell disease.
14/12/2011
How a British man tested a new painkiller on himself – which is 50 years old this week
