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World Service,25 Jul 2012,18 mins

25/07/2012

Health Check

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OLYMPICS POLYCLINIC Claudia Hammond talks to orthopaedic surgeon Fares Haddad of University College London on his role at the sports injury frontline at the 2012 London Olympics polyclinic. FIDGET Health Check visits the Fidget – a collaborative project of an artist and doctor, designed to get everyone moving to improve their cardiovascular health. AIDS 2012 Claudia also hears from two people attending this week's international Aids conference in Washington DC – Sarah Boseley, health editor of the Guardian newspaper, and Dr Sania Nishtar, a doctor specialising in non-communicable chronic disease and leading health policy reformer in Pakistan.

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