Health Check

by BBC World Service

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
Apr 23, 2025 – 26:28
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Apr 16, 2025 – 26:29
The Kidney Waiting Game
Apr 9, 2025 – 26:29
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
Apr 2, 2025 – 26:28
How do funding cuts feel?
Mar 27, 2025 – 26:27
Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
Mar 19, 2025 – 26:27
Measles spreads in the Americas
Mar 12, 2025 – 26:29
Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
Mar 5, 2025 – 26:26
Improving global encephalitis care
Feb 26, 2025 – 26:28
The global oxygen crisis
Feb 19, 2025 – 26:28
The psychology of nostalgia
Feb 12, 2025 – 26:29
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness
Feb 5, 2025 – 26:28
USA issues stop-work order on global aid
Jan 30, 2025 – 26:29
A WHO without the United States
Jan 22, 2025 – 26:27
The toll of wildfires on health
Jan 15, 2025 – 26:28
Should we be worried about HMPV?
Jan 8, 2025 – 26:29
A Malawi ‘Spay Day’
Jan 1, 2025 – 26:30
One Health in Malawi
Dec 25, 2024 – 26:29
2024 in global health: a review
Dec 18, 2024 – 26:27
Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit
Dec 11, 2024 – 26:28
Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations
Dec 4, 2024 – 26:28
Health crisis in Sudan
Nov 27, 2024 – 26:28
Resistance to leading malaria drug
Nov 20, 2024 – 26:25
What a Trump presidency means for global health
Nov 13, 2024 – 26:29
Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease
Nov 6, 2024 – 26:28
Weight loss gold rush
Oct 30, 2024 – 26:28
Organ transplant in HIV+ patients
Oct 23, 2024 – 26:28
Rapid malaria diagnoses
Oct 16, 2024 – 26:26
Micro RNA wins Nobel
Oct 9, 2024 – 26:28
Mpox widens its reach
Oct 2, 2024 – 26:29
Vector-borne diseases
Sep 25, 2024 – 26:29
Polio Vaccination in Afghanistan
Sep 18, 2024 – 26:28
Haiti: Healthcare in the Midst of Conflict
Sep 11, 2024 – 26:28
The race to distribute Mpox vaccines
Sep 4, 2024 – 26:29
Living with a new brain
Aug 28, 2024 – 26:28
The latest on the mpox public health emergency
Aug 21, 2024 – 26:29
Catching up with Covid
Aug 14, 2024 – 26:29
MPox outbreak worsens
Aug 7, 2024 – 26:29
World’s first Oropouche deaths in Brazil
Jul 31, 2024 – 26:29
Systemic racism in health care
Jul 24, 2024 – 26:28
Toxic positivity
Jul 17, 2024 – 26:29
Steps forward and back in the battle again HIV
Jul 10, 2024 – 26:28
Can light emitting bandages treat cancer?
Jul 3, 2024 – 26:29
New MPox strain in DRC
Jun 26, 2024 – 26:29
Why is exercise good for your mental health?
Jun 19, 2024 – 26:31
Is using the internet good for us?
Jun 12, 2024 – 26:29
New human cases of bird flu
Jun 5, 2024 – 26:29
How long will we live in future?
May 29, 2024 – 26:30
Medical Innovations
May 22, 2024 – 26:29
Whooping cough on the rise
May 15, 2024 – 26:32

Recent Reviews

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Great show

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The world's health briefing

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