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How a drug designed for diabetes patients could offer hope for obesity
We assess the mental health toll a month after earthquakes in Syria and Turkey.
We explore how some vaccines can have positive effects beyond their target
One year on from the start of the war, what are Ukrainian children getting?
What is being done to tackle the issue of venomous snakebites?
Researchers in Bangladesh explore links between changes in the weather and mental health
We’ll hear a doctor and survivor’s stories of cardiac arrest – and have a guide to R.
A medic describes the situation six months on from the worst floods in Pakistan’s history
This week, we hear from two women who talk about what life is like with endometriosis.
One family’s quest for their little girl to be treated for an incredibly rare disease
Claudia Hammond explores the psychology of regret
Crochet classes in the pandemic helped to ease stress but it’s hard to prove in studies
Our pick of the biggest stories of 2022 – all covered right here on Health Check
A widely used liver disease drug could be repurposed to stop Covid-19 in its tracks.
How words can save lives
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
New evidence shows how simple steps can stop infections after surgery
How US abortion bans are impacting women whose unborn babies show inherited disorders
South Africa’s first HIV “Nudge” Unit
The hundred year old transplanted livers still going strong
What doctors still don’t know about Long Covid
How women and children's health is impacted more by the pandemic and conflict
How to work out what to eat to stay healthy
Treatment hope for Alzheimer’s patients
Floods in Pakistan are causing a rise in waterborne diseases
How Egypt went from having the highest rate of hepatitis C to almost eliminating it
Malaria vaccine protects children in Burkina Faso
China approves first inhaled Covid vaccine
Reassurance over risk of statins side effects
Lifesaving Ebola treatments
