A treaty to help the world cope with the next pandemic, new ways to treat undernutrition and a last goodbye to polio. Could these be some of the health advances that 2024 will bring? Claudia asks global health journalist Andrew Green for his predictions.
Monica Lakhanpaul, professor of integrated community child health at University College London joins Claudia in the studio to discuss new evidence showing that a vaccination for winter virus RSV could cut hospital admissions in children by more than 80%.
And a mobile phone app which has been used to screen people’s coughs in Kenya for signs of TB.
Plus Claudia speaks to British journalist Mike Powell who was diagnosed a year ago with kidney failure as he prepares for transplant.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Clare Salisbury Assistant Producer: Jonathan Blackwell Editor: Holly Squire
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New human cases of bird flu
How long will we live in future?
Medical Innovations
Whooping cough on the rise
Conflict's impact on a neglected disease
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?
A promising new cancer treatment
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
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