23/05/2014 GMT
This month Health Check looks at men's health - including a new technique developed to detect prostate cancer that is claimed to be more accurate and less painful.
The 麻豆官网首页入口's monthly Health Check with Claudia Hammond and Dr Ayan Panja focuses on stories about men's health around the world.
Professional football players have specially design nutrition and training programmes something that usually isn't available to fans at home. But now, a new programme in Scotland is letting fans train at their favourite club and get back in shape.
Doctors in the Netherlands are now trialling a new technique for detecting prostate cancer using ultrasound technology, which they say is more accurate and less painful way to detect the disease.
Football fans travelling to the World Cup in Brazil need to think about their health. Yellow fever vaccinations are recommended and many will need to take malaria pills. But another mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever, has no vaccine or treatment
This year marks the centenary of the First World War. Many who survived the battlefields suffered psychological problems, which were largely not understood at the time. Specialist hospitals were set up to look after these soldiers, including one in Scotland
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