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Health Check Episodes

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    Height and Cancer

    What is the link between how tall someone is and the risk of getting cancer?

  2. What Doctors Feel

    How do emotions affect physicians and the way they treat patients?

  3. The Occupational Hazards of Herring Processing

    Why oily fish are good to eat, but not so great if you inhale their microscopic particles

  4. Abraham Maslow鈥檚 Hierarchy of Needs

    What motivates humans and drives them to accomplish all they are capable of?

  5. James Pennebaker

    How psychologist James Pennebaker showed writing about your emotions can improve health

  6. Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

    Could essential oils such as lavender and thyme be replacements for antibiotics?

  7. Falling Diabetes Mortality

    Why fewer people have been dying from diabetes in the UK and Canada in the last 15 years

  8. Sunscreen Prevents Skin Ageing

    How a randomised trial in skin cancer found using sunscreen protects against skin ageing

  9. Is There a Doctor on Board?

    A new study sheds light on how to deal with medical emergencies on planes

  10. Paleofantasy

    Are we biologically better-suited to the hunter-gatherer diet of our cavemen ancestors?

  11. Vaccine Confidence Project

    A new online tool which scans the web for negative and positive mentions of vaccines

  12. Physical Effects of Chemical Weapons

    What do chemicals like mustard gas and nerve agents do to the body?

  13. Chocolate Locust Anyone?

    The UN urges the world to eat more insects

  14. A Comfort Blanket?

    Why do people wear surgical face masks in Japan?

  15. Crying Therapists

    Why older, more experienced therapists are more likely to shed tears during therapy

  16. Flavourless

    What happens when you lose the ability to smell and taste?

  17. International Drinking Guidelines

    Drinking guidelines vary hugely, so how do we know how much alcohol is safe to drink?

  18. Postcards from the EDge

    A simple strategy to reduce repeat suicide attempts and psychiatric admissions

  19. Ancient atherosclerosis

    The study that reveals hardening of the arteries may have been a problem for 4000 years.

  20. Deworming and Vitamin A supplementation in India

    A leading epidemiologist talks exclusively to HC about the largest clinical trial ever

  21. Bacteriophages

    An older alternative to antibiotics in the fight against bacteria.

  22. HIV baby cured?

    News of a child seemingly cured of HIV and the Fukushima health consequences two years on.

  23. Should we have faith?

    The new study which finds religious and spiritual views do not protect against depression

  24. To floss or not to floss

    Dentists tell us we should floss our teeth but what is the evidence that it really works?

  25. The invisible gorilla

    Perceptual blindness in radiologists

  26. TB vaccine trial

    Unexpected results from the trial of the first vaccine for TB to be developed in 90 years

  27. Early treatment for HIV

    New research shows early treatment of patients reduces the risk of transmitting HIV virus

  28. Drug shortages in Iran

    Iran faces rising prices and shortages of medicine. Are US and EU sanctions to blame?

  29. Australia heat wave

    How the body copes with extremely high temperatures currently occurring in Australia

  30. Global polio eradication campaign

    How has polio eradication been affected by the killing of polio vaccinators in Pakistan?

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