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Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

World Service,917 episodes

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11/01/2012
Nicotine patches to help memory loss, HIV and circumcision, frozen embryos good for IVF.
18 Jan 2012,18 mins
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, fast and slow
A 2012 interview with the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist
11 Jan 2012,18 mins
28/12/2011
Claudia Hammond reports on the progress of Romanian orphanage babies adopted 21 years ago.
04 Jan 2012,18 mins
21/12/2011
Sunshine and chicken pox; Wellcome Book Prize; silent strokes and sickle cell disease.
28 Dec 2011,18 mins
14/12/2011
How a British man tested a new painkiller on himself – which is 50 years old this week
21 Dec 2011,18 mins
07/12/2011
Do face masks protect the lungs against smog?
14 Dec 2011,18 mins
30/11/2011
Developing countries take action against "lifestyle" diseases.
07 Dec 2011,18 mins
23/11/2011
What's made a difference in the dramatic drop in the number of new HIV cases?
30 Nov 2011,18 mins
16/11/2011
Could a different cut-off point for calculating obesity in South Asians fight diabetes?
23 Nov 2011,18 mins
09/11/2011
Keeping track of flu - how you the patient can help scientists to monitor outbreaks.
16 Nov 2011,18 mins
02/11/2011
New DIY cervical smear test, vitamin C and colds, report on palliative care worldwide
09 Nov 2011,18 mins
26/10/2011
How some low income countries manage to make an impact on health with few resources.
02 Nov 2011,18 mins
19/10/2011
Attempts in Australia to sell cigarettes in plain packaging to reduce deaths from smoking.
26 Oct 2011,18 mins
12/10/2011
Should donors be tougher on poor countries to encourage them to invest more in healthcare?
19 Oct 2011,18 mins
05/10/2011
Could guinea worm disease soon be eradicated? Some predict it will happen as soon at 2019
12 Oct 2011,18 mins
28/09/2011
Rising numbers of suicides in Greece as a result of the economic and social crisis
05 Oct 2011,18 mins
21/09/2011
Using diaries to help avoid the trauma of frightening hallucinations in intensive care
28 Sep 2011,18 mins
14/09/2011
Will next week’s high-level UN meeting on NCDs result in a global plan of action?
21 Sep 2011,18 mins
07/09/2011
Are a smile and a sneer the same everywhere? Research on the facial expression of emotions
14 Sep 2011,18 mins
31/08/2011
An emergency doctor in Tripoli tells Health Check about the latest medical situation.
06 Sep 2011,18 mins
24/08/2011
Super resistant gonorrhea; Fasting during the Olympics and children going hungry in the US
31 Aug 2011,18 mins
17/08/2011
Power naps; UN disease summit breakdown; Smoking risks for women; Abused kids & depression
24 Aug 2011,18 mins
10/08/2011
The woman with no fingerprints and discovery of the gene mutation behind it
17 Aug 2011,18 mins
03/08/2011
How to help Norway massacre survivors deal with their psychological trauma
10 Aug 2011,18 mins
27/07/2011
How is Costa Rica dealing with the health needs of its growing elderly population?
04 Aug 2011,18 mins
20/07/2011
Claudia Hammond reports from Ethiopia about the consequences of child marriage
27 Jul 2011,18 mins
13/07/2011
Stress – why are some people better at coping with life's ups and downs than others?
20 Jul 2011,18 mins
06/07/2011
A new method of reducing the number of twins born to women having fertility treatment
13 Jul 2011,18 mins
29/06/2011
Mental first aid for aid workers, botox and reading emotions, poisonous snake bite advice
06 Jul 2011,18 mins
22/06/2011
How doubling the number of midwives in the world could save three and a half million lives
28 Jun 2011,18 mins