Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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30/05/2012
The rabies outbreak in Peru which has killed seven children
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23/05/2012
Spanish health reforms; Eating for two when pregnant; Taking therapy to the streets
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16/05/2012
Texting HIV results to save babies’ lives in Zambia
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09/05/2012
Drop in childhood deaths – in African Millennium Villages
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02/05/2012
More than a million babies die every year – the toll of premature birth
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25/04/2012
Haiti, a cure for blushing and the effects of wintering in Antarctica
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18/04/2012
Olympic health planning and the 40th anniversary of the CT Scan.
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11/04/2012
BRICS spend more on global health. Virtual blood bank in South Sudan. Acute pain relief
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04/04/2012
Flu research, eating food standing up, pets in the office, new quick test for syphilis.
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Lifecycle Of An Athlete
How elite athletes cope, physically and mentally, when they retire from their sport.
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The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete
Claudia visits Berlin, home to some of the world's most sophisticated sports technology.
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The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete
"From Promise to Podium", Claudia Hammond reports from Jamaica, the world's sprint capital
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The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete
Claudia Hammond discovers how future Olympic winners are spotted at an early age.
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29/02/2012
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings
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The Human Race: Special Live 80th Anniversary Show
Claudia Hammond will be finding out what makes elite athletes so special.
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22/02/2012
Paying people to be healthy, old drug for TB, cleaning umbilical cords saves babies' lives
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15/02/2012
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.
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08/02/2012
Was it right for the CIA to use a doctor to help track down Osama Bin Laden?
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01/02/2012
Water pipe smoking more harmful than cigarettes, health on the web and doctors and obesity
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25/01/2012
The row over a French documentary on autism; Epilepsy medication in Kenya; Owls v Larks
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18/01/2012
Hepatitis C can destroy the liver - will a new vaccine mean the end for the virus?
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11/01/2012
Nicotine patches to help memory loss, HIV and circumcision, frozen embryos good for IVF.
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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, fast and slow
A 2012 interview with the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist
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28/12/2011
Claudia Hammond reports on the progress of Romanian orphanage babies adopted 21 years ago.
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21/12/2011
Sunshine and chicken pox; Wellcome Book Prize; silent strokes and sickle cell disease.
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14/12/2011
How a British man tested a new painkiller on himself – which is 50 years old this week
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07/12/2011
Do face masks protect the lungs against smog?
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30/11/2011
Developing countries take action against "lifestyle" diseases.
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23/11/2011
What's made a difference in the dramatic drop in the number of new HIV cases?
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16/11/2011
Could a different cut-off point for calculating obesity in South Asians fight diabetes?
