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
- 2024-11-20 23:36
- last episode published
- 2024-11-20 21:00
- publication frequency
- 7.39 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 382
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Health & Fitness
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-20 | Some Ugandan children with complicated malaria have shown partial resistance to leading anti-malarial drug artemisinin. What challenge does this pose to treatment efficacy and raising concerns about the potential spread of drug-resistant strains. ... |
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| 2024-11-13 | As Trump is elected to a second term in office, what will his policies mean for U.S. and global health funding, vaccine distribution and international health strategies? Also on the program, have you ever wondered what health issues we should worry abo... |
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| 2024-11-06 | A new global report has found that tuberculosis is once again the leading infectious disease causing mortality around the globe, as covid cases recede. We find out what can be done to tackle the issue, and what lessons have been learned in the fight ag... |
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| 2024-10-30 | The telehealth industry is booming, but a new investigation reveals a hidden network of medical groups fuelling the rise of online prescriptions for weight-loss drugs. Are patients being put at risk in this rush for GLP-1 medications?Also on the show, ... |
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| 2024-10-23 | A new study from America looks at the safety of organ transplants between people with HIV. Its promising results raise the potential for expanding access to life-saving treatments.This week's show also examines a surprising resurgence of scurvy, a dise... |
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| 2024-10-16 | Can rapid diagnostic tests make a difference in the fight against malaria? A new study tries to quantify the real-world difference these tests are making.Also on the show, what can we learn from a single documented case of a medical anomaly: like the r... |
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| 2024-10-09 | The discovery of Micro RNA has won the Nobel Prize for medicine. We learn more about what micro RNA is, how it contributes to gene regulation, and what that means for our health.Also on the programme, there has been an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwan... |
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| 2024-10-02 | As mpox continues to spread to new places, we find out how the vaccine rollout is going and what more needs to be done to help both contain and better understand the virus.Also on the show; why the first medication approved to treat schizophrenia in de... |
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| 2024-09-25 | As vector-borne diseases begin to spread more widely around the world, we look at why, what the effects are, and what can be done.Also on the program, a new study has examined the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, what did they find, and how is this di... |
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| 2024-09-18 | The Taliban has denied reports that they are halting polio vaccines in Afghanistan – so what is going on? We take a look at what is happening in the country, and how it could effect polio eradication efforts worldwide. Also on the show, an important U.... |
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