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Health Check Episodes

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    Potential Blood Test for Ten Cancers

    Detecting cancer early offers a better chance of a cure

  2. Outbreak of Nipah Virus in India

    Concerns grow over the outbreak of the deadly virus, Nipah, in India

  3. Could a Single Injection Help Rid Us of Polio?

    Nanoparticles help simplify polio vaccine

  4. Action on Ebola Outbreak in the DRC

    The latest on a vaccine to fight the Ebola outbreak which has killed at least 20 people.

  5. A Sauna a Day to Keep the Doctor Away?

    Hot saunas associated with lower risk of stroke in Finns

  6. Vitamin D Helps Build-up Malnourished Babies

    Malnourished children in Pakistan thrive with extra vitamin D

  7. Surgeons Need a Warm-up Routine

    Surgeons speed up as they repeat same operation

  8. MMR Scandal – Impact on Vaccination Rates

    How a medical fraud harmed global vaccination campaigns

  9. Brain Surgery While Wide Awake

    Vet has brain tumour removed which was discovered by accident after falling off his bike

  10. Genetics Expert Pioneered Testing For Cancer

    The British doctor who pioneered genetic testing to help prevent cancer

  11. Flu Can Increase Risk Of Heart Attack

    Strokes and heart attacks more common after flu

  12. Perfect Storm: Smoking Rises in African Youth

    Increase in smoking by African youth and high HIV and TB rates creates 'perfect storm'

  13. British Trial Hope for Leukaemia Patients

    British medical trial offers hope to leukaemia patients

  14. Is Diabetes Five Different Diseases?

    Are there five types of diabetes, not two? What would that mean for patients?

  15. Seven Hour Operation Removes Giant β€˜Brain’ Tumour

    We talk to the Indian neurosurgeon who removed the β€˜world’s largest brain tumour’

  16. Lassa Fever Outbreak in Nigeria

    Containing Lassa fever in Nigeria

  17. The ΒιΆΉΙη Loneliness Experiment Launches

    The causes of loneliness and the experiment aiming to find some solutions

  18. Undetected High Blood Pressure in New Mothers

    Hidden blood pressure danger common in mums after pregnancy complication.

  19. Drug-resistant Typhoid Outbreak in Pakistan

    Vaccination campaign to combat drug-resistant typhoid in Pakistan

  20. Cancer Blood Test

    Important step in cancer blood test β€œholy grail”

  21. Kids’ Screen Time: What Are the Risks?

    Does screen time damage children’s health?

  22. New Year, New You?

    Do self-help books make people happier?

  23. Patients More Likely to Die After Surgery in Africa

    Lack of checks on patients after operations to blame

  24. The Brain Prize: How β€œReward” Works

    Prizewinning scientists: how the brain reacts to rewards

  25. Dementia Patients’ Anxiety Eased by Movies of Their Lives

    Films about lives of dementia patients help with anxiety

  26. 'Breakthrough' in Treating Fatal Brain Condition

    Scientists at UCL have corrected the faulty gene linked to Huntington's Disease

  27. 50 Years Since First Heart Transplant

    Donor organs shortage 50 years after 1st heart transplant

  28. Scarlet Fever Outbreaks

    Mystery of resurgence in the UK and East Asia of Scarlet Fever

  29. Every Step You Take Counts

    Will 10,000 steps a day keep the doctor away?

  30. Could Cholesterol-lowering Drugs Fight Pneumonia?

    β€œHow statins could cut pneumonia deaths”

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