Health Check
A podcast by BBC World Service - Wednesdays
263 Episodes
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A breakthrough in treating chronic pain
Published: 27/08/2025 -
Using AI to discover new antibiotics
Published: 20/08/2025 -
How plastic harms health
Published: 13/08/2025 -
Malnutrition in Gaza
Published: 6/08/2025 -
Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes
Published: 30/07/2025 -
Do you really have a penicillin allergy?
Published: 23/07/2025 -
HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO
Published: 16/07/2025 -
First malaria treatment approved for newborns
Published: 9/07/2025 -
Can bacteria-eating viruses be used to fight superbugs?
Published: 2/07/2025 -
Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide
Published: 25/06/2025 -
Future thinking
Published: 18/06/2025 -
Mpox surging in Sierra Leone
Published: 11/06/2025 -
Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes
Published: 4/06/2025 -
A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts
Published: 28/05/2025 -
A promising new antimalarial
Published: 21/05/2025 -
Listening to your body's signals
Published: 14/05/2025 -
Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease
Published: 7/05/2025 -
Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed
Published: 30/04/2025 -
WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
Published: 23/04/2025 -
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Published: 16/04/2025
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.