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  1. 2026/02/11 GMT

    Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

  2. 2026/02/04 GMT

    Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

  3. Health Check

    Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

  4. Health Check

    Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

  5. Health Check

    Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

  6. China’s latest bid to boost its birth rate

    What impact might taxes on contraceptives have in China?

  7. How can we eliminate malaria?

    The big ideas and innovations that may help us one day eliminate malaria

  8. 2025: A big year for tackling malaria

    The new drugs, gadgets and vaccines making a difference

  9. Behind the Huntington’s disease breakthrough

    The world’s first gene therapy to treat Huntington’s disease

  10. Shingles vaccine slows the progression of dementia

    We unpick further research on the benefits of the shingles vaccine

  11. The risky use of skin lightening in children

    A new study finds 20% of Nigerian under-5s have been exposed to skin-lightening products

  12. Childhood hypertension becomes more common

    New study finds the prevalence of high blood pressure in childhood has doubled since 2000

  13. The disappearing mid-life crisis

    The trend in wellbeing over our lifespans is changing, driven by unhappier young people

  14. Canada loses measles elimination status

    Why are measles cases continuing to spread in North America and beyond?

  15. Cloud seeding to cut air pollution in Delhi

    We hear the fallout of a failed attempt at cloud seeding to cut pollution in Delhi

  16. What surpassing 1.5°C means for global health

    How can we protect global health in a world that will ‘inevitably’ warm past 1.5 degrees?

  17. How impostors distort medical research

    How to find human and bot impostors amongst real participants in health research

  18. How to prioritise aid in Gaza

    What impact will aid deliveries have to health in Gaza

  19. Immune system researchers win Nobel Prize

    We explain the science behind the Nobel winners

  20. Creating human eggs from skin cells

    How cell reprogramming might help address infertility

  21. Trump’s unproven claims on autism and paracetamol

    We fact-check Trump’s claims that paracetamol is linked to an increased risk of autism

  22. More children are obese than underweight

    For the first time there are more overweight than underweight children globally

  23. The psychology of curiosity

    Astronaut Tim Peake and panel discuss if curiosity is good for us

  24. Have we found a better alternative to aspirin?

    An alternative blood thinner is showing improvements in warding off heart attack

  25. A breakthrough in treating chronic pain

    A gene has been identified that is critical for regulating pain signals

  26. Using AI to discover new antibiotics

    How AI has helped find potential new antibiotics to fight gonorrhoea and MRSA

  27. How plastic harms health

    As negotiations conclude on a global treaty, we consider how plastic affects our health

  28. Malnutrition in Gaza

    The impact of malnutrition on health and the aid needed in Gaza

  29. Making human blood deadly to mosquitoes

    We assess a novel technique to combat malaria

  30. Do you really have a penicillin allergy?

    How more accurate allergy labels would improve patient outcomes

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