Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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02/11/2011
New DIY cervical smear test, vitamin C and colds, report on palliative care worldwide
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26/10/2011
How some low income countries manage to make an impact on health with few resources.
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19/10/2011
Attempts in Australia to sell cigarettes in plain packaging to reduce deaths from smoking.
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12/10/2011
Should donors be tougher on poor countries to encourage them to invest more in healthcare?
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05/10/2011
Could guinea worm disease soon be eradicated? Some predict it will happen as soon at 2019
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28/09/2011
Rising numbers of suicides in Greece as a result of the economic and social crisis
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21/09/2011
Using diaries to help avoid the trauma of frightening hallucinations in intensive care
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14/09/2011
Will next week鈥檚 high-level UN meeting on NCDs result in a global plan of action?
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07/09/2011
Are a smile and a sneer the same everywhere? Research on the facial expression of emotions
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31/08/2011
An emergency doctor in Tripoli tells Health Check about the latest medical situation.
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24/08/2011
Super resistant gonorrhea; Fasting during the Olympics and children going hungry in the US
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17/08/2011
Power naps; UN disease summit breakdown; Smoking risks for women; Abused kids & depression
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10/08/2011
The woman with no fingerprints and discovery of the gene mutation behind it
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03/08/2011
How to help Norway massacre survivors deal with their psychological trauma
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27/07/2011
How is Costa Rica dealing with the health needs of its growing elderly population?
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20/07/2011
Claudia Hammond reports from Ethiopia about the consequences of child marriage
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13/07/2011
Stress 鈥� why are some people better at coping with life's ups and downs than others?
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06/07/2011
A new method of reducing the number of twins born to women having fertility treatment
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29/06/2011
Mental first aid for aid workers, botox and reading emotions, poisonous snake bite advice
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22/06/2011
How doubling the number of midwives in the world could save three and a half million lives
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15/06/2011
We look at the simple HIV testing now on offer to some London patients
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08/06/2011
Hong Kong鈥檚 first ever mental health survey set to reveal the scale of unmet need
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01/06/2011
Mental Health in Hong Kong - first of two special programmes presented by Claudia Hammond
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25/05/2011
Are we seeing a tipping point in the fight to reduce deaths in pregnancy and childbirth?
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18/05/2011
Rethinking pain. What affects sperm counts? Babies and communication
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11/05/2011
Will proposals to abolish Pakistan's Ministry of Health halt efforts to eradicate polio?
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04/05/2011
Why adolescence is such an important time in terms of adult health outcomes
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27/04/2011
Treatment for earthquake trauma. Safely swaddling babies. Benefits of a middle aged brain
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20/04/2011
People who can鈥檛 forget, link between autism and anorexia and a possible malaria vaccine?
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13/04/2011
Healthcare in Ethiopia without using doctors or nurses
