Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
World Service,·917 episodes
New research from Poland which finds women take longer to ask for, and get help, than men
06 Mar 2019,·26 mins
A new study which reveals some drugs might last longer than we think.
27 Feb 2019,·26 mins
Could it help doctors work out the optimum painkillers for each patient?
20 Feb 2019,·26 mins
A large study which found no-one with early cortical blindness developed schizophrenia
13 Feb 2019,·26 mins
The results of a study on the night-time phone habits of 25,000 Radio Denmark listeners
06 Feb 2019,·26 mins
How being naturally thin might not be a myth after all
30 Jan 2019,·26 mins
Looking back at 10 years of the intervention that saves lives in the operating theatre
23 Jan 2019,·26 mins
New study finds the effect on teenage mental health is barely worse than eating potatoes
16 Jan 2019,·26 mins
How does loneliness impact health and can society change to help decrease loneliness?
09 Jan 2019,·26 mins
How does social media and friendship influence the development of loneliness?
02 Jan 2019,·26 mins
Claudia Hammond explores some common myths in neuroscience
26 Dec 2018,·26 mins
The study looking at longer ambulance response times in lower income US neighbourhoods
19 Dec 2018,·26 mins
A clever way of getting round the shortage in yellow fever vaccine supplies
12 Dec 2018,·26 mins
A healthy baby girl has been born after using a womb from a dead woman
05 Dec 2018,·26 mins
The remote South American tribe whose blood pressure doesn't appear to rise as they age
28 Nov 2018,·26 mins
What short and long-term health problems have residents been suffering from?
21 Nov 2018,·26 mins
Should London’s violent crime be a ‘public health issue’?
14 Nov 2018,·26 mins
Melanoma death rates are rising in men but static or falling in women
07 Nov 2018,·26 mins
The mysterious, rare, polio-like disease causing paralysis in young children in the US
31 Oct 2018,·26 mins
Ongoing violence and cultural issues preventing containment of the disease
24 Oct 2018,·26 mins
The scandal where women later diagnosed with cancer were given false smear test results
17 Oct 2018,·26 mins
New data on the rare but serious eye infection caused by an amoeba
10 Oct 2018,·26 mins
Who’s lonely in the world?
03 Oct 2018,·26 mins
India’s poorest to access free healthcare
26 Sep 2018,·26 mins
Aspirin doesn’t protect healthy older people from heart attacks
19 Sep 2018,·26 mins
Europeans living longer - but obesity on the rise
12 Sep 2018,·26 mins
Babies born to women infected with Zika virus – more problems emerge in first year
05 Sep 2018,·26 mins
How to spot the deadliest type of stroke which causes bleeding in the brain
29 Aug 2018,·26 mins
Genetic link between disrupted body clocks and mood disorders
22 Aug 2018,·26 mins
When memory fails – and you can’t bear grudges
15 Aug 2018,·26 mins
