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Health Check (Health)

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About Health Check

Health Check grapples with health issues on a global scale, investigates discoveries and solutions in healthcare, and looks at how to deliver a healthier world.

  • Claudia Hammond
  • Health
  • English
  • BBC
  • London, United Kingdom
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Wed, May 23

HC: 23 May 12: Spanish health reforms, Street therapy

Spanish health reforms - will Spanish pensioners have to choose between drugs and food? Is it true that pregnant women should eat for two? Taking therapy to the streets to reach young people
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Wed, May 16

HC: 16 May 12: Alcohol, Online dating, Zambia HIV tests

What works and what doesn’t when it comes to strategies to encourage us to cut down on drinking; the science of love – does the internet change the nature of the search for a soulmate; swapping a 500km road trip for a quick SMS text message to get medical test results out faster in Zambia.
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Wed, May 9

HC: 09 May 12: Millennium Villages; Happiness Calendar; Comparing Depressio

How Millennium Villages in Africa are helping to cut child deaths with simple, cheap solutions to tackle common problems like malaria and diarrhoea. The positive effect on wellbeing of Happy Calendars in rural Sri Lanka. And research comparing depresssion amongst our friends and family.
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Wed, May 2

HC: 02 May 12: Premature babies, Tests, Anatomical drwgs

More than a million babies die every year because they are born too soon – the toll of premature birth. Are doctors carrying out too many unnecessary tests? And how 16th century art is helping to train the doctors of tomorrow
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Wed, Apr 25

HC: 25 Apr 12: Haiti, Blushing, Antarctica

Coordinating physical rehabilitation efforts for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, a surgical cure for blushing, and the effects on body and mind of the long Antarctic winter
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Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Wed, May 30