Health Check
A podcast by BBC World Service - Wednesdays
275 Episodes
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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 -
The Kidney Waiting Game
Published: 9/04/2025 -
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
Published: 2/04/2025 -
How do funding cuts feel?
Published: 27/03/2025 -
Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
Published: 19/03/2025 -
Measles spreads in the Americas
Published: 12/03/2025 -
Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
Published: 5/03/2025 -
Improving global encephalitis care
Published: 26/02/2025 -
The global oxygen crisis
Published: 19/02/2025
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
