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- Host: Claudia Hammond
- Health issues as they affect you. Counterfeit drugs, disease findings, and anything that deals with your health is worth discussing. Dialogue saves lives, and we're doing that every time you tune in.
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HealthC:Fat but Fit 31 August 08
Sun, Aug 31
Can you be fat and fit? - why slim people aren’t necessarily healthy. The pain said to be as bad as childbirth...the pain of passing a kidney stone. How time-lapse photography could help in the fight against cancer. How we’ve got it all wrong about the reasons mosquitoes are repelled by DEET. And the works of art painted by patients in a Senegalese psychiatric ward.
HealthC: Pain 24 Aug 08
Sun, Aug 24
Why patients in some parts of the world don’t get pain relief; donating a kidney to a friend; delivering vaccines through the nose rather than by injections; and living with the risk of having a brain haemorrhage.
HealthC: Doctors in distress 17 Aug 08
Sun, Aug 17
Why doctors are more likely than the rest of the population to suffer from depression and anxiety, but less likely to ask for help. We hear from the Indian region nicknamed “the abode of snakes”. The genetic differences which make a person ten times more likely to develop schizophrenia. And life with sickle cell anaemia….
HealthC: Preventing HIV transmission 10 Aug 08
Sun, Aug 10
A statement from Switzerland says that people with HIV are very unlikely to pass the virus on to their partners if they’re receiving effective treatment, but is this advice safe? Could hypnosis help people with dementia? How do you tell whether babies are in pain? And while we’re on the subject of pain – life with bonebreakers disease or dengue fever…. And can a new kind of lie detector from India get at the truth in a person’s mind?
HealthC: Gene Therapy 3rd Aug 08
Sun, Aug 3
Is it OK to test brand new gene therapies on people living in the developing world? The boy who thought the 9/11 attacks were his fault because he’d not stepped on a line on a road…. The man whose grandmother convinced him that he could do anything despite the polio which had left him without the use of his legs. And the famous prisoner in Russia who’s unintentionally drawing attention to the plight of prisoners with HIV/AIDS...
HealthC: Migraine 27 Jul 08
Sun, Jul 27
New research that could finally explain what happens in the brain when someone has a migraine. What skeletons found on building sites can tell us about health through the ages. What would you do if you knew you had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer? We hear one woman’s story. And why does time slow down when you’re really scared? New research on our perception of time, using a truly terrifying method.
HealthC: Mapping the Brain 21 Jul 08
Mon, Jul 21
This week, a high-resolution map of the brain; providing sanitary towels to women in rural India; a discussion on the involvement of psychologists in interrogations in Guantanamo Bay; and what it's like living with narcolepsy.
HealthC: Malnutrition in Egypt 14 Jul 08
Mon, Jul 14
This week, we hear how soaring food prices are forcing people in Egypt to change their diet; charity MSF describe a new therapeutic food for sufferers of severe malnourishment; why politicians in Uganda are calling for people infected with jiggers to be arrested; traditional healers helping people with mental health problems in Ecuador; and Claudia visits a doping clinic gearing up for the Olympics.
HealthC: Surgeon's Checklist 06 Jul 08
Mon, Jul 7
Surgeon and author Atul Gawande describes a new checklist for surgeons to prevent mistakes in theatre. We hear what it's like to live with cardiomyopathy. The pros and cons of giving a child a placebo. News of a campaign to introduce syringes that can only be used once to prevent the spread of disease. And new research into a form of synaesthesia involving touch.
HealthC: Soldiers after war 29 Jun 08
Sun, Jun 29
An American system to help soldiers to stay sane after they’ve been to war….. Who would you trust to prescribe your drugs – your doctor or a computer? Forget shiny stainless steel in hospitals. How about using copper? And why so many women in Mali think it’s OK for their husbands to hit them if they discuss politics or refuse sex.
HealthC: Fake Drugs 22 Jun 08
Sun, Jun 22
The massive illegal trade in fake drugs - when you buy medicine do you really know what you’re getting? The mental scars left behind for the survivors of the Burmese cyclone … Do you ever get the feeling that someone’s got it in for you, that they’re out to get you? New research shows a third of us are paranoid. And …..a rather unusual beauty contest – Miss Landmine, where the contestants have all been injured by landmines in Angola.
HealthC: Drug Trial Transparency 15 Jun 08
Sun, Jun 15
How to encourage drug companies to be more open with their trials, so that we can know the results - good or bad….. How to stop diseases passing from people to gorillas and vice versa in Rwanda….. Drugs in sport – could genetic chance mean that some people can evade dope tests? And how the smell of stink bombs could be put to good medical use.
HealthC: HIV & TB 08 Jun 08
Sun, Jun 8
A third of people with HIV have another disease – tuberculosis. A Kenyan health worker speaks at the WHO - it’s no good tackling HIV if TB isn’t addressed at the same time. The surgeons in Germany imagining their way to doing better operations. Could a computer game lead to new drug discoveries? How nuclear bomb testing done decades ago can tell us about the body’s fat cells. And the leukaemia patient who has one thing he wants to tell everyone about while he still has the chance.
HealthC: Ghana Cancer Part Two 01 Jun 08
Sun, Jun 1
Claudia Hammond continues her report on health care in Ghana. She hears how the death of Ama Sumani, a terminally ill woman who was sent back to Ghana from Britain towards the end of her life, has raised awareness about cancer. Claudia travels to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi which serves as the only cancer centre in the north of the country and caters to 12 million people. Claudia talks to AfrOx (The African Oxford Consortium) which wants to develop a cancer plan for the...
HealthC: Ghana Cancer Part One 25 May 08
Sun, May 25
By 2020 there will be a million new cases of cancer in Africa every year. Claudia Hammond visits Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana which is the only cancer centre in the north of the country and serves 12 million people. With referrals also coming from neighbouring countries the resources are stretched. Oncologist Dr Baffour Awuah says that the biggest problem they have is that many people come to the hospital too late for their cancer to be cured. Ghana is ideally situated to...
HealthC: Cluster Bombs 18 May 08
Sun, May 18
A Cluster Munitions Conference to try to ban the use of cluster bombs. The tragic injuries inflicted by cluster bombs and how they change peoples’ lives - we hear from a man in Laos who was blown up by a cluster bomb while he was digging a fish pond for his family … A Health Check listener tells us how she’s been treated just because she has white hair and pale skin ….. and.... Why is the world’s blood pressure is going up?
HealthC: Global Health 11 May 08
Sun, May 11
An academic who believes that the world’s health will never improve if trade is put first. Could the horse tranquiliser ketamine work as a new treatment for depression? How to prevent the spread of HIV from mothers to babies in Russia. And we hear from Malawi where half of all children have stunted growth due to malnutrition.
HealthC: Iraq Mental Health 04 May 08
Sun, May 4
In the past few decades thousands of Iraqis have experienced trauma - could this store up problems for the future? We hear from the author who had sex with her husband in a body scanner, all in the name of research of course. Life with acute myeloid leukaemia. The taboo surrounding safe sex education in Russia. And from Indonesia - a rehearsal for a bird flu pandemic
HealthC: Parkinson's 27 Apr 08
Sun, Apr 27
What has become of the first people with Parkinsons to have had brain cell transplants? Do smokers think differently? The terminally ill Russians turning to drug dealers for pain relief. Life with polio. And up high in the sky with the London Air Ambulance.
HealthC: Sleep 20 Apr 08
Sun, Apr 20
Special sleep suits using Disney-inspired technology. Could mosquitoes tell us whether a substance in soya might help control malaria? Some good news when it comes to children’s health in Malawi. And life with the condition where you have no pigment in your skin or hair – albinism….
HealthC: Clean water for Mozambique 13 Apr 08
Sun, Apr 13
The winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize Award - musician Feliciano dos Santos, and his work campaigning for clean water in Mozambique. Why a certain blood disorder can protect you from malaria. Traditional herbal medicine and the importance of the Chome forest in the Eastern Arc mountains of northern Tanzania. The new finding that TB bacteria pass from one person to another by being fat and lazy. And one woman’s experience of blindness in India's Rajasthan province.
HealthC: Anaesthetic Awareness 06 Apr 08
Sun, Apr 6
Every patient’s worst nightmare - waking up during surgery. Egypt’s first liver transplants in a public hospital. A breakthrough in the lab at least, in stopping hepatitis C from spreading. And life with epilepsy.
HealthC: Anger 30 Mar 08
Sun, Mar 30
How untreated anger can make you ill. If you died unexpectedly would you like your organs given to someone who needs them? But should everyone’s organs be up for donation when they die, unless they specifically decide to opt out? Life with coeliac disease. And imagine living in Italy and not being able to eat pasta.
HealthC: Pain 23 Mar 08
Sun, Mar 23
Which hurts less – ripping bandages off fast or slowly? And the answer’s not quite what you might think. Why expensive pills work better than cheap ones even when the ingredients are exactly the same....the mysterious placebo effect. The possibility of predicting whether a woman is likely to have a miscarriage. And the new way of doing cataract surgery to allow people to see for the very first time.
HealthC: Cures for Infammatory Diseases 16 Mar 08
Fri, Mar 14
The finding that might one day lead to new cures for arthritis, some types of cancer and even heart disease. How common fainting is and the simple steps that can prevent it. Life with heart disease. Your thoughts on whether depression could ever be useful. And how about selling your urine? We hear about the special loos for collecting waste ready to sell as fertiliser.
HealthC: Iraqi Refugees 9 Mar 08
Sun, Mar 9
Psychological problems suffered by Iraqi refugees living in Jordan and Lebanon. Is depression good for us? How the Russian baby boom is changing the way women want to give birth. Life with hepatitis B. And the women in sub-Saharan Africa desperately trying to conceive.
HealthC: Travels of the Mind Bangladesh 02 Mar 08
Sun, Mar 2
Three months ago, Cyclone Sidr devastated coastal regions of Bangladesh. Trees were uprooted. Fishing boats and buildings were destroyed. More than 3000 people died. In Travels of the Mind after the news, psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud visits the disaster area. He reports on an innovative project that gives villagers psychological support as they try to rebuild their lives.
HealthC: Russia 24 Feb 08
Sun, Feb 24
Claudia Hammond reports from Moscow on the Health Service and asks if it is dealing with the particular problems of Russians today. Half of Russian men die before they reach 60. Lifestyle plays a major part in this as alcohol and tobacco consumption is high, and there are many fatal road traffic accidents. Claudia asks if the government is doing anything to persuade its citizens to change their behaviour. Private clinics have appeared in the new Russia and Claudia talks to doctors and...
HealthC: Cholera in DR Congo 17 Feb 08
Sun, Feb 17
More than 2000 cases of cholera are reported in the province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Euan McIlraith joins an emergency response team from Medecins Sans Frontieres, sent to contain the outbreak.
HealthC: Psychiatrists Stalked 10 Feb 08
Sun, Feb 10
New research on the number of psychiatrists who are plagued by stalkers – often their own patients. The international teams all ready to go the moment there’s a disease outbreak. How what you eat as a toddler could affect how much money you earn as an adult. Could wearing high heels help with incontinence? And life with the mysterious condition synaesthesia.
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