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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Covid in Vietnam
Art, gardening and wellbeing during Covid
The Kindness Test
Antibody cocktails against Covid
The psychology of courage and bravery
Impact of wildfires
Twisties and sporting mental health
Covid vaccination in prisons
Could the flu vaccine protect against severe Covid-19?
Mental health recovery stories
Lambda variant of Sars-Cov-2
Mixing Covid vaccines
Tanzania joins Covax
New treatment for Covid
FDA approves new Alzheimer’s drug
Black Fungus epidemic in India
Is kindness contagious?
When to have your second vaccine dose?
Is BMI an outdated risk measure?
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