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
- 2025-02-24 14:47
- last episode published
- 2025-02-19 21:00
- publication frequency
- 7.37 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 395
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Health & Fitness
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2025-01-15 | With extensive wildfires in Los Angeles, we look at the longer-term health impacts of wildfires and why there is still a risk to health after a fire is extinguished. A global commission has called for an overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, suggesting... |
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| 2025-01-08 | With reports of rising cases of the respiratory illness HMPV in multiple countries and concern over the risk it poses, we look behind the headlines to reality check what is really going on. Also on the show, we hear from injured Ukrainians who are buil... |
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| 2025-01-01 | Claudia Hammond is in Malawi exploring the concept of One Health, where the health of humans, animals and the environment are all linked. Today we’re visiting a makeshift roadside operating theatre for dogs in the village of Kauma, just outside of Lilo... |
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| 2024-12-25 | Claudia Hammond is in Malawi exploring a movement known as “One Health”: an approach that calls for collaboration between the fields of human, animal, and environmental health, for the benefit of all. And how can this help to prevent disease when peopl... |
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| 2024-12-18 | Claudia Hammond is joined by journalist Andrew Green to check-in on their 2024 health predictions and review just how accurate they were. Together, they explore the stories that we didn’t see coming and the game-changing medical innovations that shaped... |
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