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  1. 23/05/2012

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    Spanish health reforms; Eating for two when pregnant; Taking therapy to the streets

  2. 16/05/2012

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    Available since Wed, 16 May 2012.

    Texting HIV results to save babies’ lives in Zambia

  3. 09/05/2012

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    Available since Wed, 9 May 2012.

    Drop in childhood deaths – in African Millennium Villages

  4. 02/05/2012

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    Available since Wed, 2 May 2012.

    More than a million babies die every year – the toll of premature birth

  5. 25/04/2012

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    Available since Tue, 1 May 2012.

    Haiti, a cure for blushing and the effects of wintering in Antarctica

  6. 18/04/2012

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    Available since Wed, 25 Apr 2012.

    Olympic health planning and the 40th anniversary of the CT Scan.

  7. 11/04/2012

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    Available since Wed, 18 Apr 2012.

    BRICS spend more on global health. Virtual blood bank in South Sudan. Acute pain relief

  8. 04/04/2012

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    Available since Wed, 11 Apr 2012.

    Flu research, eating food standing up, pets in the office, new quick test for syphilis.

  9. Lifecycle Of An Athlete

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    Available since Wed, 4 Apr 2012.

    How elite athletes cope, physically and mentally, when they retire from their sport.

  10. The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete

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    Available since Wed, 28 Mar 2012.

    Claudia visits Berlin, home to some of the world's most sophisticated sports technology.

  11. The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete

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    Available since Wed, 21 Mar 2012.

    "From Promise to Podium", Claudia Hammond reports from Jamaica, the world's sprint capital

  12. The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete

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    Available since Wed, 14 Mar 2012.

    Claudia Hammond discovers how future Olympic winners are spotted at an early age.

  13. 29/02/2012

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    Available since Thu, 8 Mar 2012.

    Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings

  14. The Human Race: Special Live 80th Anniversary Show

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    Available since Wed, 7 Mar 2012.

    Claudia Hammond will be finding out what makes elite athletes so special.

  15. 22/02/2012

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    Available since Wed, 29 Feb 2012.

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

  16. 15/02/2012

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    Available since Wed, 22 Feb 2012.

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

  17. 08/02/2012

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    Available since Wed, 15 Feb 2012.

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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 18/01/2012

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    Available since Wed, 25 Jan 2012.

    Hepatitis C can destroy the liver - will a new vaccine mean the end for the virus?

  21. 11/01/2012

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    Available since Wed, 18 Jan 2012.

    Nicotine patches to help memory loss, HIV and circumcision, frozen embryos good for IVF.

  22. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow

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    Claudia Hammond talks to psychologist Prof Kahneman on his book Thinking, Fast and Slow

  23. 28/12/2011

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    Available since Wed, 4 Jan 2012.

    Claudia Hammond reports on the progress of Romanian orphanage babies adopted 21 years ago.

  24. 21/12/2011

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    Available since Wed, 28 Dec 2011.

    Sunshine and chicken pox; Wellcome Book Prize; silent strokes and sickle cell disease.

  25. 14/12/2011

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    Available since Wed, 21 Dec 2011.

    How a British man tested a new painkiller on himself – which is 50 years old this week

  26. 07/12/2011

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    Available since Wed, 14 Dec 2011.

    Do face masks protect the lungs against smog?

  27. 30/11/2011

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    Available since Wed, 7 Dec 2011.

    Developing countries take action against "lifestyle" diseases.

  28. 23/11/2011

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    Available since Wed, 30 Nov 2011.

    What's made a difference in the dramatic drop in the number of new HIV cases?

  29. 16/11/2011

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    Available since Wed, 23 Nov 2011.

    Could a different cut-off point for calculating obesity in South Asians fight diabetes?

  30. 09/11/2011

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    Keeping track of flu - how you the patient can help scientists to monitor outbreaks.

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