Health Check

As 2024 draws ever closer, Claudia Hammond looks back at the medical news, trends and advances which

With the failure of the PrEPVacc trial in Southern and Eastern Africa, HIV researchers are concerned

Morning sickness affects 4 in 5 women at some point in pregnancy but until now we’ve known little ab

On Health Check we often cover the outbreak of a mystery illness or unusual health event that has oc

When former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern passed legislation to reduce access to toba

The UK has become the first country in the world to approve a gene editing treatment for people with

The committee that advises on vaccinations in the UK has recommended that chickenpox is added to the

This week it was announced in the United Kingdom that women at high risk of breast cancer will be ab

Antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective at treating common childhood infections, according

Talented guitarist, Hamish Barclay, was given steroids when he was a teenager to treat a kidney prob

More than 100 people are suspected to have died in Zimbabwe in the most recent outbreak of cholera t

‘Doxy PEP’, or doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, is where a common antibiotic is given to someo

A vaccine for malaria that can be produced cheaply on a large scale has been recommended for use by

Gum lancing is a tradition practiced on babies in some parts of the world. It’s done with good inten

The PEPFAR scheme was launched by George W Bush in 2003 to provide HIV and Aids relief around the wo

The author Max Dickins was preparing to propose to his girlfriend when he came to a realisation: he

With deaths from opioid overdoses rocketing to more than 100,000 people each year, the US has moved

In March 2015, Brazil reported a large outbreak of the Zika virus infection. Over the next year, the

When former transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini first implanted a synthetic trachea into a patient

Iraq is the latest country to report a batch of contaminated cough syrup according to the World Heal