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Health Check

Health Check grapples with health issues on a global scale, investigates discoveries and solutions in healthcare, and looks at how to deliver a healthier world.

Programmes:
on BBC iPlayer (180)
coming up (16)
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by year (204)

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    22/02/2012

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    Paying people to be healthy, old drug for TB, cleaning umbilical cords saves babies’ lives

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    1. 15/02/2012

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      Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.

    2. 08/02/2012

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      Was it right for the CIA to use a doctor to help track down Osama Bin Laden?

    3. 01/02/2012

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      Available since Wed, 8 Feb 2012.

      Water pipe smoking more harmful than cigarettes, health on the web and doctors and obesity

    4. 25/01/2012

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      Available since Wed, 1 Feb 2012.

      The row over a French documentary on autism; Epilepsy medication in Kenya; Owls v Larks

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Paying people to be healthy, old drug for TB, cleaning umbilical cords saves babies’ lives

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