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    Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination

    Health Check examines the issues around Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy

  2. Long Covid: solving the mysteries

    The UK has launched four major research programmes into Long Covid

  3. Covid surge in Mozambique

    Doctor in Mozambique鈥檚 largest hospital on the massive surge in Covid cases and deaths

  4. Covid vaccines: bad news, good news

    AstraZeneca vaccine disappoints in South Africa but may reduce virus spread elsewhere

  5. Covid-19 vaccines prevent 100% of deaths

    With a new slew of good Covid vaccine trial results, a remarkable trend emerges

  6. Brazilian city鈥檚 Covid crisis: 鈥業t鈥檚 like Hell鈥�

    Health system meltdown as coronavirus infections surge in Manaus for a second time

  7. First days of India鈥檚 Covid vaccination programme

    India鈥檚 Covid mass vaccination begins. But there are questions

  8. WHO warns against vaccine rollout unfairness

    Are poorer countries missing out in the global vaccine rollout? A warning from the WHO

  9. The first year of the pandemic

    The show looks back at the pandemic exactly one year since we first reported its start

  10. How children think about maths and time

    Doughnuts today or tomorrow? How 4 year olds understand time

  11. Ambiguous loss: a different kind of grief

    Have you lost a loved one who is still a part of your life in some way?

  12. In Iran, one in five infected by coronavirus

    Study reveals prevalence of coronavirus infection across Iran, with 72 percent in one city

  13. Gene therapy for sickle cell disease

    Gene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease

  14. Milestone in HIV prevention for women

    African clinical study finds an injection every 8 weeks protects women from HIV infection

  15. Another week, another Covid-19 vaccine success

    Good news about Covid vaccines keeps coming but can everyone benefit from the successes?

  16. Measles outbreak threat due to Covid

    Disruption to measles immunisation raises the risk of large outbreaks in Africa

  17. Covid vaccine 鈥�90% effective鈥�

    How big a deal is the 鈥�90% effective鈥� coronavirus vaccine?

  18. Covid-19 vaccines: Unknowns and dilemmas

    What we will not know when the first Covid-19 vaccines are deployed

  19. Covid-19 plasma therapy trial results 鈥榙isappointing鈥�

    Indian trial finds that convalescent plasma therapy has little benefit against Covid-19

  20. Do the Covid-19 drugs work?

    Remdesivir shown to be ineffective in global trial of drugs used to treat Covid-19

  21. Have you ever hugged your doctor?

    What role does touch play in health care?

  22. Touch Test results

    World's largest study on the topic of touch

  23. How long should Covid quarantine last?

    Does cutting quarantine to a week increase the risk of missing cases of Covid-19?

  24. The latest on global Coronavirus cases

    Covid cases continue to surge in the US as countries sign up to help vaccinate the world

  25. Have we reached the peak of Wellness?

    Could doctors learn a trick or two from Wellness?

  26. What is Wellness and does it make you healthy?

    Where does the idea of Wellness come from? And who stands to gain from it?

  27. Covid-19 sniffer dogs being trained

    How a smelly t-shirt could help dogs sniff out coronavirus

  28. Newborn deaths in US

    Black newborn deaths in the US

  29. Covid immunity clues from a fishing boat in the Pacific

    How a type of antibody found in three fishermen is helping Covid-19 research

  30. Women鈥檚 reproductive rights threatened by Covid

    Improvements to women鈥檚 lives because of birth control advances are put at risk by Covid

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