Health Check Podcast
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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Zimbabwe government takes on 鈥榝riendship benches鈥�
Last Wednesday
A famed Zimbabwean mental health intervention is being handed over to the government
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How do funding cuts feel?
Wed 26 Mar 2025
What does it feel like to be part of a study which might have its funding cut?
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Judge blocks further USAID shutdown
Wed 19 Mar 2025
A federal judge has said the shuttering of USAID is 鈥榣ikely unconstitutional鈥�
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Measles spreads in the Americas
Wed 12 Mar 2025
The Americas are in danger of losing their measles elimination status
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Ninety percent of USAID programs cut
Wed 5 Mar 2025
How will large cuts to US aid affect global health?
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Improving global encephalitis care
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Encephalitis can be a debilitating condition. How do we improve diagnosis and treatment?
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The global oxygen crisis
Wed 19 Feb 2025
The global need for medical oxygen is high, but there are huge access gaps to tackle.
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USA issues stop-work order on global aid
Wed 29 Jan 2025
President Trump has stopped work on foreign aid projects.
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A WHO without the United States
Wed 22 Jan 2025
What happens if the United States withdraws from the WHO?
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The toll of wildfires on health
Wed 15 Jan 2025
What are the long-term health effects of wildfires that persist even once extinguished?
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Should we be worried about HMPV?
Wed 8 Jan 2025
We look behind the headlines to reality check what is going on with HMPV.
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One Health in Malawi
Christmas Day 2024
Claudia meets the vets who are treating animals in order to protect people from disease.
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Expanding the anti-malaria toolkit
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Scientists trial a malaria vaccine delivered by mosquito bites, showing promising results
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Genetic risk of diabetes in South Asian populations
Wed 4 Dec 2024
New study finds genetic links to how and when South Asian populations develop diabetes
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Resistance to leading malaria drug
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Emerging malaria drug resistance in Uganda raises global health concerns
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What a Trump presidency means for global health
Wed 13 Nov 2024
How will Trump鈥檚 return reshape global health funding and U.S. commitments?
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Tuberculosis returns as top infectious disease
Wed 6 Nov 2024
New global report finds tuberculosis is once again the leading infectious disease.
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Weight loss gold rush
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Telehealth platforms are increasingly prescribing GLP-1s, raising concerns about safety.
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Organ transplant in HIV+ patients
Wed 23 Oct 2024
A new study looks at the safety of organ transplants between people with HIV
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Rapid malaria diagnoses
Wed 16 Oct 2024
What difference are rapid diagnostic tests making in the fight against malaria?
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Micro RNA wins Nobel
Wed 9 Oct 2024
What is micro RNA, and why has it been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine?
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Mpox widens its reach
Wed 2 Oct 2024
As mpox continues to spread, we check in on how the vaccine rollout is going.
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Vector-borne diseases
Wed 25 Sep 2024
What does an uptick in vector-borne diseases mean for global health?
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Polio Vaccination in Afghanistan
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Has the Taliban halted polio vaccinations in Afghanistan?
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Haiti: Healthcare in the Midst of Conflict
Wed 11 Sep 2024
As Haiti expands its state of emergency, what is the country鈥檚 healthcare situation?
