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Health Check Episodes

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    26/10/2009

    Can seasonal winds can make you ill? And the state of the world's vaccines.

  2. 19/10/2009

    Claudia Hammond on the latest global abortion figures and Carl Jung's famous Red Book.

  3. 12/10/2009

    Clever women make better wives; Famous hypochondriacs; Public health trials.

  4. 05/10/2009

    Smoking & Heart Disease. Does music help you run better? The genetics of sexual behaviour.

  5. 28/09/2009

    HIV vaccine breakthrough. Caveman diet = healthy waistline? Ethiopia road safety and khat.

  6. 21/09/2009

    Dementia special to mark World Alzheimer's Day.

  7. 14/09/2009

    Zambia obscenity trial. Male circumcision to help tackle HIV.Bollywood and mental illness.

  8. 07/09/2009

    Global Mental Health Summit, Athens. Egypt - mental health laws. Hearing voices. Recovery.

  9. 31/08/2009

    Japanese Encephalitis. Genetics of Perfect Pitch and healthy fasting during Ramadan.

  10. 24/08/2009

    British Versus US healthcare debate. Why optimism is good for your health. Space medicine.

  11. 17/08/2009

    Brain scans and Acupuncture. Heart Disease. Time perception in children with ADHD.

  12. 10/08/2009

    Plague outbreak in China and why the patient's perspective is as valuable as the doctor's.

  13. 03/08/2009

    The writer, Timothy O'Grady examines the pros and cons to medical tourism.

  14. 27/07/2009

    The writer, Timothy O'Grady examines the benefits and pitfalls of medical tourism.

  15. 20/07/2009

    Childhood obesity. Low-fat curry. Health and politics.

  16. 13/07/2009

    Maternal Mortality. How lives are changed through sport. Gambling Addiction in Russia.

  17. 06/07/2009

    Claudia Hammond reports from Britain's Royal Society summer exhibition.

  18. 29/06/2009

    Polio. The secrets of ageing. Scourge of Hayfever. And the medical benefits of marijuana.

  19. 22/06/2009

    Why are men more at risk from getting and dying from cancer? Claudia Hammond finds out.

  20. 22/06/2009

    Men’s cancer risk. Cancer busting carrots. Recession and health. Dreams and creativity.

  21. 15/06/2009

    Bereavement without a body. Compulsory vaccinations. Swine flu pandemic. Rudeness.

  22. 15/06/2009

    Bereavement without a body. Compulsory vaccinations. Swine flu pandemic. Rudeness.

  23. 08/06/2009

    Gates Foundation, lullabies help tiny babies and the Physicians for Human Rights Project.

  24. Portugal Health

    Claudia Hammond goes to Portugal to find out how decriminalising drugs could help addicts.

  25. 25/05/2009

    Sri Lankan IDPs, cancer & depression, skin cream from newborns, surgery via belly button.

  26. 18/05/2009

    Claudia Hammond explores why a million children die each year from violence or accidents.

  27. 11/05/2009

    Claudia Hammond finds out how governments prevent panic during a serious health outbreak.

  28. 04/05/2009

    The ethics of epidemics, visual neglect and stroke and snakebite treatment

  29. 27/04/2009

    Mental health in Cambodia; new drug for scarring; face recognition; Chinese health reform.

  30. 20/04/2009

    Meningitis in Nigeria and Niger, Phantom limbs, bed bugs and mass hysteria

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