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Health Check Episodes

  1. Food Prices and Nutrition

    How rising food prices are causing people to have poorer diets

  2. Food Crisis in Ethiopia

    The feeding stations trying to combat rising levels of malnutrition in Ethiopia

  3. Food Causing Respiratory Disease and Leprosy

    Leprosy has carried a stigma for centuries

  4. Female Genital Mutilation

    The dangers of female genital mutilation for babies

  5. Feeling pain and Choosing the Right Painkiller

    Feeling pain, choosing the right painkiller and living with psychosis

  6. Fake Medical Drugs

    At look at the scale of the problem of fake medicines being sold around the world

  7. Earthquakes in Chile and Vaccinations

    Earthquakes in Chile, diabetes and vaccinations

  8. Drugs Research

    Funding for new drugs research and Kenya's first test tube babies

  9. Drugs Policy in Portugal

    The radical approach taken by Portugal in tackling the problem of drug addiction

  10. Drug testing Children

    A look at the Italian parents who are testing their children's urine for drugs

  11. Drug Prices in Developing Countries

    The pharmaceutical industry and the price of drugs in the developing world

  12. Dreams

    What can dreams tell us about ourselves?

  13. Downs Syndrome

    There has been a lot of stigma attached to people with Downs Syndrome. Can it be changed?

  14. Do Clever People Live Longer?

    Would you know what to do for a burns victim?

  15. Digital Medicine

    What鈥檚 in store for the doctors and patients of the future?

  16. Dengue Fever and Sleep for Weight Loss

    Tackling Dengue fever outbreak and detecting breast cancer early in Egypt

  17. Dementia

    Could religious faith slow down the progress of dementia?

  18. Darker Side of Sleep

    Do you remember the most terrifying nightmare?

  19. Dangers of Diesel Fumes

    How walking near traffic affects asthma sufferers

  20. Crack Cocaine Addiction

    A new approach to crack cocaine addiction involving small financial incentives

  21. Covid-19 vaccination in Africa

    How the roll out of vaccines is progressing

  22. Corporate Funding and Blindness in Nigeria

    Funding medical projects in developing countries through corporate social responsibility

  23. Controversy over Vitamin Supplements

    Scientists disagree over findings on long-term benefits of taking vitamin supplements

  24. Combatting mental illness

    Mental health issues for breastfeeding mothers and why swimming can help

  25. Cluster Bombs

    How children's lives round the world are ruined by cluster bombs

  26. Climate Change and Health

    How climate change might affect health

  27. Chronic Conditions in the Developing World

    Visiting a conference in Cape Town, run by the Oxford Health Alliance

  28. Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe

    A report on Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak

  29. Cholera in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Euan McIlraith joins medical teams responding to the cholera outbreak in Congo

  30. Chilean Pesticides and Family Planning

    Blisters and swelling. Investigating the health problems caused by pesticides

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