Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
World Service,·917 episodes
We look at the simple HIV testing now on offer to some London patients
22 Jun 2011,·18 mins
Hong Kong’s first ever mental health survey set to reveal the scale of unmet need
15 Jun 2011,·18 mins
Mental Health in Hong Kong - first of two special programmes presented by Claudia Hammond
08 Jun 2011,·18 mins
Are we seeing a tipping point in the fight to reduce deaths in pregnancy and childbirth?
01 Jun 2011,·18 mins
Rethinking pain. What affects sperm counts? Babies and communication
25 May 2011,·18 mins
Will proposals to abolish Pakistan's Ministry of Health halt efforts to eradicate polio?
18 May 2011,·18 mins
Why adolescence is such an important time in terms of adult health outcomes
11 May 2011,·18 mins
Treatment for earthquake trauma. Safely swaddling babies. Benefits of a middle aged brain
04 May 2011,·18 mins
People who can’t forget, link between autism and anorexia and a possible malaria vaccine?
27 Apr 2011,·18 mins
Healthcare in Ethiopia without using doctors or nurses
20 Apr 2011,·18 mins
Why doctors trained in Ethiopia are leaving in their hundreds to work abroad
13 Apr 2011,·18 mins
How to raise survival rates for children with cancer in developing countries
06 Apr 2011,·18 mins
The first ever recorded case of child psychoanalysis; a small boy living in Vienna in 1904
28 Mar 2011,·28 mins
Voice banking; medical tourism in Taiwan; Kala Azar in Southern Sudan
21 Mar 2011,·28 mins
The man with the hole in his head - one of the most famous case studies in brain science
13 Mar 2011,·28 mins
New ways to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers
06 Mar 2011,·28 mins
Mind over matter; a different view of cancer; and a new test for glaucoma
27 Feb 2011,·28 mins
Why do some women eat clay during pregnancy, and is it safe?
20 Feb 2011,·28 mins
Access to medicines; how to sleep well; Cambodia toilets; preventing traumatic flashbacks
13 Feb 2011,·28 mins
As public protests spread, does a psychologist think that a crowd has a mind of its own?
06 Feb 2011,·28 mins
Buses and flu. Mental health in the Falklands. IQ boosting memories. Healthy heart tips
31 Jan 2011,·28 mins
Gabrielle Gifford's brain surgery. Breastfeeding. Health in Southern Sudan. Yoga in Kenya
23 Jan 2011,·28 mins
Freud used his first case history, Dora, to show how dreams could be used in analysis
17 Jan 2011,·28 mins
Does it work to pay people to adopt healthy behaviours, such as stopping smoking?
10 Jan 2011,·28 mins
Claudia Hammond hears how complimenting your doctor may not have the effect you hoped for
02 Jan 2011,·28 mins
Origin of cholera in Haiti. Grandfather of Allergy medicine. Tracing birth families online
27 Dec 2010,·28 mins
Interpreting medical research, menopausal experiences, and does sound influence taste?
19 Dec 2010,·28 mins
Meningitis vaccine, the mind of a suicide bomber, surgery curing deafness, HIV kit
12 Dec 2010,·28 mins
The case that for years apparently proved that nurture not nature dictates gender identity
29 Nov 2010,·28 mins
How to stop cholera spreading further in Haiti
22 Nov 2010,·28 mins
