Health Check
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsyw
- Description
- Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-28 05:51
- last episode published
- 2025-03-27 12:10
- publication frequency
- 7.37 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 400
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Health & Fitness
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-27 | What does it feel like to be part of a study which might have its funding cut? Marty Reiswig has a rare genetic mutation that means he will get Alzheimer’s disease in his forties or fifties. For fifteen years he’s been part of medical studies into his ... |
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| 2025-03-19 | A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is ‘likely unconstitutional’, while the Trump administration has been ordered to pay back bills for USAID. But what difference is this making on the ground? Global health journalist Andrew Green is in Ug... |
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| 2025-03-12 | The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status as the disease spreads due to under vaccination. Also on the show, a study finds that continuous glucose monitors may be overestimating blood sugar levels in healthy adults. And it’s... |
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| 2025-03-05 | As the Trump administration cuts 90% of programs funded by the US Agency for International Development, we look at the effect on global health. Also on the program, violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hindering the country’s ongoing MPox re... |
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| 2025-02-26 | Encephalitis can be a debilitating condition, but many people have never even heard of it. A new global report looks at how we can improve diagnosis and treatment.Also on the program, new research seems to indicate that antidepressents might speed cogn... |
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| 2025-02-19 | The global need for medical oxygen is high, but there are huge gaps in safe and affordable access. The first report of its kind identifies not only who is most vulnerable, but how the world can strengthen the supply of medical oxygen to improve public ... |
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| 2025-02-12 | Do you look back on the past with rose-tinted spectacles, memories of the good old days accompanied by warm, fuzzy feelings? Or when you reflect on the past is it hard to do so without a tinge of sadness? Whether you fall on the more bitter or more swe... |
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| 2025-02-05 | As Guinea becomes the latest country to eliminate sleeping sickness, how close are we to defeating the disease completely? Also on the program, what does a massive shakeup at the US Agency for International Development mean for global health? And a new... |
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| 2025-01-30 | What will President Trump’s order stopping work on foreign aid projects mean for global health?Also on the program, a new method for repairing heart muscles using stem cells shows promise, and do weight-loss drugs also stop the ‘food noise’ so many peo... |
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| 2025-01-22 | As President Trump signals his intention to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, what could the global health ramifications be? Also on the show, Meta moves from an independent fact-checking program to community notes: How wil... |
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