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Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Episodes

Total: 256

As Omicron spreads across the US, Claudia Hammond is joined by Professor Matt Fox from Boston Univer

Tabitha Mwangi, programme manager at Cambridge Africa at Cambridge University, joins Claudia to disc

As millions of us have had to stay away from our workplaces during the pandemic, Claudia Hammond exp

Do our pets care about us?

2021/12/29

In the past philosophers and scientists have argued about the nature of animal minds: Darwin thought

New research on the Omicron variant unpicked by James Gallagher, BBC health and science corresponden

Omicron update

2021/12/15

Omicron update from James Gallagher, the BBC Health and Science Correspondent. And as New Zealand an

Omicron variant news

2021/12/8

News update on the new Omicron variant now in many countries across the world. Plus Hannah Fisher re

Omicron Covid variant – what do we know? Claudia examines key questions about the new variant with P

Covid cases across Europe

2021/11/24

James Gallagher, BBC health and science correspondent, examines Covid case rates across Europe.A rep

New research on how some people had a level of Covid immunity before the pandemic started. Blood sam

New antiviral pills to treat Covid are coming thick and fast. Pfizer have just announced their new a

An International team of scientists has launched a global hunt for rare people who may be geneticall

New evidence from Sweden and France on the benefits of mixing and matching doses of different types

New Covid vaccine

2021/10/20

New Covid vaccine from Valneva produces stronger immune response when compared to AstraZeneca, the F

Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 from a virulent cervical cancer. A sample of those cancer cells was tak

New antiviral Covid pill

2021/10/6

Trials stopped early of a new Covid antiviral pill, Molnupiravir, as it may cut numbers of people in

Many people have struggled with their mental health during the pandemic, but still don’t always feel

Covid in Vietnam

2021/9/15

In 2020 Vietnam ran a successful track and trace system, with very few coronavirus infections and fo

How art and gardening has saved some people’s mental health during the pandemic. Claudia visits the

The Kindness Test

2021/9/1

When was the last time you did something really kind for someone or someone else did something reall