Health Check Episodes Episode guide
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30/08/2010
Claudia Hammond revisits classic case studies that have advanced psychological research
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23/08/2010
Strange objects which have turned up in people's airways
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16/08/2010
Could a new form of resistant superbug spell the end for antibiotics
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09/08/2010
Can literature help doctors and nurses understand mental illness? Claudia Hammond reports
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02/08/2010
Claudia Hammond reports on new research showing how education may lower dementia risk
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26/07/2010
New research on the problems facing people living into old age with HIV.
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19/07/2010
Claudia Hammond reports on head size & Alzheimer's disease, and heart failure treatment.
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12/07/2010
Why a lack of exercise may not necessarily be causing childhood obesity.
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05/07/2010
Fifty years after the pill's invention, why is there no male equivalent?
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28/06/2010
Oil spill health effects. Menopause test. Fake psychiatric patients. Mobile phone masts.
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21/06/2010
Henrietta Lacks; new definitions of psychiatric conditions; premature babies and pain.
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14/06/2010
Solitary confinement, lead poisoning in Nigeria, Savant syndrome and Restless Legs.
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07/06/2010
Gay men & blood donation. Sex & sport. Georgia health. Women's groups and babies' health.
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31/05/2010
Teeth brushing and heart disease; left-handedness; salivary stones; inhalable vaccine
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24/05/2010
Worldwide shortage of medical isotopes. PACO in Buenos Aires. Tinnitus. Smallpox and HIV.
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17/05/2010
Smallpox. Polypill to combat heart disease. Sleeplessness in Cairo. Autism and migration.
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10/05/2010
Viewing the dead after traumatic death. Should toddlers watch TV? Prostate cancer.
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03/05/2010
The psychology of face recognition. Why can鈥檛 some people recognise their own children?
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26/04/2010
Why black and Asian Britons are reluctant to volunteer as blood and organ donors?
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19/04/2010
Health benefits of barefoot running; endurance running; the G8 maternal health initiative
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12/04/2010
Health messages: too scary? Indian generic drugs; Egypt pregnancy screening; Men's health
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05/04/2010
Dr Atul Gawande talks to Claudia Hammond. Simple, ingenious solutions to medical problems.
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29/03/2010
Obama's health reforms; counting deaths to improve health; and India's search for TB drug.
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22/03/2010
Wheat allergy; morning after pill; dangerous tape worms; end of life visions.
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15/03/2010
Stephen Hawking's voice; i2Home; Computer Braille; disability and the internet.
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08/03/2010
Malaria in Cambodia. Condom fit. Feeling bad when ill. The internet and disability.
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01/03/2010
Two births from ovarian transplant;Winter Olympic dentistry;C-sections;Sleep deprivation.
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22/02/2010
Severe dengue outbreak in South America. Mindfulness. Hot weather advice.
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15/02/2010
Q Fever, memory and pregnancy, the hospital gown, the difference between mind and brain.
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08/02/2010
Banking sleep. Why was swine flu so mild? MMR paper retracted. Functional foods in Japan.
