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Health Check Episodes

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    Chikungunya Disease

    Why the spread of the mosquito-borne virus to the Caribbean islands is causing concern

  2. UAE Breastfeeding Law

    UAE proposed Child Rights Law could make breastfeeding mandatory

  3. International Medical Help After Typhoon Haiyan

    What lessons can be learnt from the international medical help effort in Philippines?

  4. Would you Want to Find out About an Inherited Genetic Condition?

    The impossibly difficult decisions after discovering a family history of genetic disorder

  5. Sickle Cell Disease Spreads with Migration

    More countries need to prepare for influx of people with sickle cell disease

  6. Slimming by Cooling

    Could exposure to colder temperatures help with weight loss?

  7. Tired Mind, Tired Body

    How mental exhaustion may affect your sporting performance

  8. Harnessing the Placebo Effect

    How the labelling of a placebo can make it as effective as drugs in migraine pain relief

  9. Pneumonic Plague in Madagascar

    What has caused these recent deadly outbreaks?

  10. Twenty-five Years of Neuroscience

    Developments in neuroscience and how our understanding of the brain has changed

  11. The Musical Brain

    From the emotional stimuli of music to how the brain identifies musical patterns

  12. Children鈥檚 Declining Fitness

    Why today鈥檚 children are on average 15% slower at running than their parents

  13. Healthy Habits and Dementia

    How a healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk of developing dementia by 60%

  14. Healthcare in Danger

    The increasing perils for medical personnel working in conflict zones

  15. Bedtime Aspirin

    How taking aspirin at night may reduce the risk of a heart attack in the morning

  16. Children of Jannah

    The UK charity providing specialist bereavement support for Muslims

  17. The myths concerning people鈥檚 health after natural disasters

    Is it really true that spread of disease is inevitable or that dead bodies pose a risk?

  18. Intersex

    Germany gives legal rights for people who do not fit the two genders of male or female

  19. Unemployment as a Health Issue

    WHO launches a campaign to address the link between health and unemployment

  20. Polio in Syria

    A suspected outbreak in Syria where vaccination rates have been slashed

  21. Vaccine for HPV in Laos

    Anti-cervical cancer vaccine for girls where there is no screening or radiotherapy

  22. Haitian Health Care

    The challenges facing health care in Haiti three years on from its devastating earthquake

  23. Reform of US Health System?

    What will the US health reforms of universal health insurance mean for Americans?

  24. Awake and Anaesthetised

    A new survey looking at the number of people who are aware during general anaesthesia

  25. Indigenous Rights and Medicine

    How medical students in Canada are training to provide appropriate health care

  26. Tablets for Kids

    Is medicine in tablet form better for children to take instead of liquid medicine?

  27. Child Psychologist Anna Freud

    How Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's daughter, revolutionised the way we think about children

  28. The Case of Henry Molaison

    The neurological patient with amnesia who contributed to our understanding of memory

  29. Health Data and Ethnicity

    A new report calling for ethnicity to be taken into account when health data is collected

  30. Window into the Brain

    Why looking at the condition of blood vessels in the retina can help predict strokes

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