The toxic mineral asbestos is still mined across the world, despite it’s much documented links to cancer. Now there are promising results from a new global study into one of the most aggressive types of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
Also on the programme, we receive an exciting update from Mike, who has gotten a long-awaited kidney transplant, and we discuss new treatment protocols for Hepatitis B and how they could better serve people in Southern and Eastern Africa.
What’s happening with girls’ mental health?
Is turbulence injuring more and more flyers?
Nigeria rolls out world’s first 5-in-1 meningitis vaccine
How we hope
Puerto Rico declares dengue fever emergency
Pig kidney transplanted into patient
Should we stop talking about long Covid?
One billion obese people
Junior doctors strike in South Korea
Global Trade v Health Equality
Dengue outbreak in Latin America
Getting vaccinations to remote South Sudan
Surviving Noma disease
Cape Verde eliminates malaria
Endurance
Are outcomes better with female surgeons?
2024 in global health
A year in health in review
When will we have an HIV vaccine?
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