BBC World Service - Health Check

Healthy Habits and Dementia

How a healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk of developing dementia by 60%

The increasing perils for medical personnel working in conflict zones

How taking aspirin at night may reduce the risk of a heart attack in the morning

The UK charity providing specialist bereavement support for Muslims

Is it really true that spread of disease is inevitable or that dead bodies pose a risk?

Germany gives legal rights for people who do not fit the two genders of male or female

WHO launches a campaign to address the link between health and unemployment

A suspected outbreak in Syria where vaccination rates have been slashed

Anti-cervical cancer vaccine for girls where there is no screening or radiotherapy

The challenges facing health care in Haiti three years on from its devastating earthquake