Health Check
A podcast by BBC World Service - Wednesdays
260 Episodes
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Malnutrition in Gaza
Published: 8/6/2025 -
Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes
Published: 7/30/2025 -
Do you really have a penicillin allergy?
Published: 7/23/2025 -
HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir recommended by WHO
Published: 7/16/2025 -
First malaria treatment approved for newborns
Published: 7/9/2025 -
Can bacteria-eating viruses be used to fight superbugs?
Published: 7/2/2025 -
Childhood vaccination coverage stalls worldwide
Published: 6/25/2025 -
Future thinking
Published: 6/18/2025 -
Mpox surging in Sierra Leone
Published: 6/11/2025 -
Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes
Published: 6/4/2025 -
A new way to screen for cancer in dense breasts
Published: 5/28/2025 -
A promising new antimalarial
Published: 5/21/2025 -
Listening to your body's signals
Published: 5/14/2025 -
Shingles vaccine lowers risk of heart disease
Published: 5/7/2025 -
Mycetoma’s only research centre destroyed
Published: 4/30/2025 -
WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
Published: 4/23/2025 -
Have we found an animal reservoir of mpox?
Published: 4/16/2025 -
The Kidney Waiting Game
Published: 4/9/2025 -
Zimbabwe government takes on ‘friendship benches’
Published: 4/2/2025 -
How do funding cuts feel?
Published: 3/27/2025
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.