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Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

World Service,848 episodes

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WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
WHO members have agreed to a draft treaty intended to make the world safer from pandemics
23 Apr 2025,26 mins
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Investigating the mystery of which animals form reservoirs of mpox in the wild.
16 Apr 2025,26 mins
The Kidney Waiting Game
What it's like to give, receive, and wait for a kidney.
09 Apr 2025,26 mins
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
A famed Zimbabwean mental health intervention is being handed over to the government
02 Apr 2025,26 mins
How do funding cuts feel?
What does it feel like to be part of a study which might have its funding cut?
26 Mar 2025,26 mins
Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is ‘likely unconstitutional’
19 Mar 2025,26 mins
Measles spreads in the Americas
The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status
12 Mar 2025,26 mins
Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
How will large cuts to US aid affect global health?
05 Mar 2025,26 mins
Improving global encephalitis care
Encephalitis can be a debilitating condition. How do we improve diagnosis and treatment?
26 Feb 2025,26 mins
The global oxygen crisis
The global need for medical oxygen is high, but there are huge access gaps to tackle.
19 Feb 2025,26 mins
The psychology of nostalgia
Can we harness nostalgia for our own wellbeing?
12 Feb 2025,26 mins
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness
Guinea uses novel approach to eliminate disease.
05 Feb 2025,26 mins
USA issues stop-work order on global aid
President Trump has stopped work on foreign aid projects.
29 Jan 2025,26 mins
A WHO without the United States
What happens if the United States withdraws from the WHO?
22 Jan 2025,26 mins
The toll of wildfires on health
What are the long-term health effects of wildfires that persist even once extinguished?
15 Jan 2025,26 mins
Should we be worried about HMPV?
We look behind the headlines to reality check what is going on with HMPV.
08 Jan 2025,26 mins
A Malawi ‘Spay Day’
How can a ‘Spay Day’ help stop the spread of rabies?
01 Jan 2025,26 mins
One Health in Malawi
Claudia meets the vets who are treating animals in order to protect people from disease.
25 Dec 2024,26 mins
2024 in global health: a review
Which stories shaped global health in 2024?
18 Dec 2024,26 mins
Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit
Scientists trial a malaria vaccine delivered by mosquito bites, showing promising results
11 Dec 2024,26 mins
Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations
New study finds genetic links to how and when South Asian populations develop diabetes
04 Dec 2024,26 mins
Health crisis in Sudan
What is driving the health polycrisis in Sudan?
27 Nov 2024,26 mins
Resistance to leading malaria drug
Emerging malaria drug resistance in Uganda raises global health concerns
20 Nov 2024,26 mins
What a Trump presidency means for global health
How will Trump’s return reshape global health funding and U.S. commitments?
13 Nov 2024,26 mins
Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease
New global report finds tuberculosis is once again the leading infectious disease.
06 Nov 2024,26 mins
Weight loss gold rush
Telehealth platforms are increasingly prescribing GLP-1s, raising concerns about safety.
30 Oct 2024,26 mins
Organ transplant in HIV+ patients
A new study looks at the safety of organ transplants between people with HIV
23 Oct 2024,26 mins
Rapid malaria diagnoses
What difference are rapid diagnostic tests making in the fight against malaria?
16 Oct 2024,26 mins
Micro RNA wins Nobel
What is micro RNA, and why has it been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine?
09 Oct 2024,26 mins
Mpox widens its reach
As mpox continues to spread, we check in on how the vaccine rollout is going.
02 Oct 2024,26 mins