Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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El Nino Shifts Cholera Outbreaks in Africa
How the weather phenomenon El Nino influences where in Africa cholera outbreaks occur
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The Game Encouraging Medics to not use Jargon
The card game challenging medics to stop using jargon words and simplify their language
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What Does Rest Really Mean?
Doctors prescribe it for recovery 鈥� but for some 鈥渞esting鈥� might involve boxing or music
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Who is Best Suited to a Move to the Red Planet?
What are the qualities required from those who want to travel to Mars?
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The 鈥榃eaponisation鈥� of Healthcare in Syria
New report: Healthcare in Syria is being used as a weapon on an unprecedented scale
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Can Gas Stoves Cut Indoor Air Pollution?
Replacing smoky cook stoves with gas - to improve the health of women and babies.
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Global Campaign to Protect Women鈥檚 Reproductive Rights
鈥楽he Decides鈥�- a coalition against USA鈥檚 global family planning funding cuts
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Mystery of Nodding Syndrome Revealed
Epilepsy caused by parasitic worm behind nodding syndrome mystery.
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Yellow Fever: Brazil鈥檚 New Outbreak
Alongside Zika, Brazil is now facing its worst yellow fever outbreak in 25 years
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How Uncertainty Makes us Dig our Heels in
Dogmatic people become more entrenched in their views in times of uncertainty study shows
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Time Outdoors Cuts Risk of Short-Sight
Could spending time outside help your eyesight?
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How to Spot Fake Health News
How do we sift fact from fiction in stories about health in the news and social media?
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Exercising Away Back Pain
Is exercise the key to preventing back pain?
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Getting the Best from Medicine
Tackling the twin health threats of over and under-use of medicine around the world
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Bionic Bodies for Superhuman Powers?
How advances in bionics is enhancing the human body, including a bionic eye for the blind
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Time Travelling in the Human Mind
Are we the only creatures who can mentally time travel?
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Cooling the Brain Saves Lives
Brain injury patients saved by cooling
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What鈥檚 Behind the Rise in Suicides in the Middle East?
Conflict and economic hardship behind rise in suicides in Middle East
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How Memories are Made and Lost
How memories are made and lost? Three prize winning scientists discuss latest research
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Insights into Mental Health from the Teenage Brain
Teenage brains provide insights into mental health
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Libraries - Good for Your Health as Well as for Books?
Can librarians improve people鈥檚 health?
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A Text a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Text alerts sent to heart attack and stroke patients reduce the risk of death
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What鈥檚 the Mind Doing When it is Daydreaming?
Claudia Hammond peers inside the wandering mind
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Fashion to Protect Pregnant Women Against Zika
Clothing to protect pregnant women against zika in El Salvador
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Tasers鈥� Effect on the Mind
Tasers inflict physical agony, but what about their effect on the mind?
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Women Feel Empowered by Online Abortions
Irish women opt for online abortions instead of costly travel to English clinics
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Poverty Fuels Disease in Rich Countries
Tropical diseases of poverty spreading in rich countries
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Warning Over Skin-Lightening Injections
Skin expert warns of dangers of skin-lightening injections
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Finding Rest in the Modern World
Claudia Hammond and guests reveal the Rest test results and analyses how the world relaxes
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New Global Health Check
Improving the health of everyone by aiming for the Sustainable Development Goals
