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Who would spend two years in a space capsule in the name of medicine?
Mental Health
How disasters and trauma affect mental health
Drugs Research
Funding for new drugs research and Kenya's first test tube babies
29/06/2009
Polio. The secrets of ageing. Scourge of Hayfever. And the medical benefits of marijuana.
22/06/2009
Why are men more at risk from getting and dying from cancer? Claudia Hammond finds out.
06/07/2009
Claudia Hammond reports from Britain's Royal Society summer exhibition.
13/07/2009
Maternal Mortality. How lives are changed through sport. Gambling Addiction in Russia.
20/07/2009
Childhood obesity. Low-fat curry. Health and politics.
27/07/2009
The writer, Timothy O'Grady examines the benefits and pitfalls of medical tourism.
03/08/2009
The writer, Timothy O'Grady examines the pros and cons to medical tourism.
10/08/2009
Plague outbreak in China and why the patient's perspective is as valuable as the doctor's.
17/08/2009
Brain scans and Acupuncture. Heart Disease. Time perception in children with ADHD.
24/08/2009
British Versus US healthcare debate. Why optimism is good for your health. Space medicine.
31/08/2009
Japanese Encephalitis. Genetics of Perfect Pitch and healthy fasting during Ramadan.
07/09/2009
Global Mental Health Summit, Athens. Egypt - mental health laws. Hearing voices. Recovery.
14/09/2009
Zambia obscenity trial. Male circumcision to help tackle HIV.Bollywood and mental illness.
28/09/2009
HIV vaccine breakthrough. Caveman diet = healthy waistline? Ethiopia road safety and khat.
05/10/2009
Smoking & Heart Disease. Does music help you run better? The genetics of sexual behaviour.
12/10/2009
Clever women make better wives; Famous hypochondriacs; Public health trials.
19/10/2009
Claudia Hammond on the latest global abortion figures and Carl Jung's famous Red Book.
26/10/2009
Can seasonal winds can make you ill? And the state of the world's vaccines.
02/11/2009
Maternal mortality special.
09/11/2009
How the reunification of Germany has affected the health of two nations in various ways.
16/11/2009
Claudia Hammond talks to Dr Martin Seligman about Positive Psychology.
23/11/2009
Romania orphans today, future funding for HIV, Lifeline Express Train and the body clock.
14/12/2009
Psychology and climate change - how to encourage more environmentally sensitive behaviour.
21/12/2009
Good news from the WHO鈥檚 latest Malaria Report and should schizophrenia be renamed?
28/12/2009
Should people be rewarded for donating their organs for transplants?
04/01/2010
Why do patients volunteer for clinical trials - just to get better or for the common good?
11/01/2010
Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in cystic fibrosis clinical trials.
18/01/2010
Health Check investigates the downside of being positive for cancer patients.