Health Check

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Recent episodes (4)

• HC: 23 May 12: Spanish health reforms, Street therapy

  Wed, 23 May 12

  Duration:
  18 mins
  
  Available:
  27 days remaining

  Spanish health reforms - will Spanish pensioners have to choose between drugs and food? Is it true that pregnant women should eat for two? Taking therapy to the streets to reach young people

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• HC: 16 May 12: Alcohol, Online dating, Zambia HIV tests

  Wed, 16 May 12

  Duration:
  18 mins
  
  Available:
  20 days remaining

  What works and what doesn’t when it comes to strategies to encourage us to cut down on drinking; the science of love – does the internet change the nature of the search for a soulmate; swapping a 500km road trip for a quick SMS text message to get medical test results out faster in Zambia.

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• HC: 09 May 12: Millennium Villages; Happiness Calendar; Comparing Depression

  Wed, 9 May 12

  Duration:
  19 mins
  
  Available:
  13 days remaining

  How Millennium Villages in Africa are helping to cut child deaths with simple, cheap solutions to tackle common problems like malaria and diarrhoea. The positive effect on wellbeing of Happy Calendars in rural Sri Lanka. And research comparing depresssion amongst our friends and family.

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• HC: 02 May 12: Premature babies, Tests, Anatomical drwgs

  Wed, 2 May 12

  Duration:
  18 mins
  
  Available:
  6 days remaining

  More than a million babies die every year because they are born too soon – the toll of premature birth. Are doctors carrying out too many unnecessary tests? And how 16th century art is helping to train the doctors of tomorrow

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