Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
World Service,·907 episodes
Spanish health reforms; Eating for two when pregnant; Taking therapy to the streets
23 May 2012,·18 mins
Texting HIV results to save babies’ lives in Zambia
16 May 2012,·18 mins
Drop in childhood deaths – in African Millennium Villages
09 May 2012,·18 mins
More than a million babies die every year – the toll of premature birth
02 May 2012,·18 mins
Haiti, a cure for blushing and the effects of wintering in Antarctica
01 May 2012,·18 mins
Olympic health planning and the 40th anniversary of the CT Scan.
25 Apr 2012,·18 mins
BRICS spend more on global health. Virtual blood bank in South Sudan. Acute pain relief
18 Apr 2012,·18 mins
Flu research, eating food standing up, pets in the office, new quick test for syphilis.
11 Apr 2012,·18 mins
How elite athletes cope, physically and mentally, when they retire from their sport.
04 Apr 2012,·28 mins
Claudia visits Berlin, home to some of the world's most sophisticated sports technology.
28 Mar 2012,·28 mins
"From Promise to Podium", Claudia Hammond reports from Jamaica, the world's sprint capital
21 Mar 2012,·28 mins
Claudia Hammond discovers how future Olympic winners are spotted at an early age.
14 Mar 2012,·28 mins
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings
08 Mar 2012,·18 mins
Claudia Hammond will be finding out what makes elite athletes so special.
07 Mar 2012,·55 mins
Paying people to be healthy, old drug for TB, cleaning umbilical cords saves babies' lives
29 Feb 2012,·18 mins
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.
22 Feb 2012,·18 mins
Was it right for the CIA to use a doctor to help track down Osama Bin Laden?
15 Feb 2012,·18 mins
Water pipe smoking more harmful than cigarettes, health on the web and doctors and obesity
08 Feb 2012,·18 mins
The row over a French documentary on autism; Epilepsy medication in Kenya; Owls v Larks
01 Feb 2012,·18 mins
Hepatitis C can destroy the liver - will a new vaccine mean the end for the virus?
25 Jan 2012,·18 mins
Nicotine patches to help memory loss, HIV and circumcision, frozen embryos good for IVF.
18 Jan 2012,·18 mins
A 2012 interview with the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist
11 Jan 2012,·18 mins
Claudia Hammond reports on the progress of Romanian orphanage babies adopted 21 years ago.
04 Jan 2012,·18 mins
Sunshine and chicken pox; Wellcome Book Prize; silent strokes and sickle cell disease.
28 Dec 2011,·18 mins
How a British man tested a new painkiller on himself – which is 50 years old this week
21 Dec 2011,·18 mins
Do face masks protect the lungs against smog?
14 Dec 2011,·18 mins
Developing countries take action against "lifestyle" diseases.
07 Dec 2011,·18 mins
What's made a difference in the dramatic drop in the number of new HIV cases?
30 Nov 2011,·18 mins
Could a different cut-off point for calculating obesity in South Asians fight diabetes?
23 Nov 2011,·18 mins
Keeping track of flu - how you the patient can help scientists to monitor outbreaks.
16 Nov 2011,·18 mins
