As the recent surge in cases of dengue fever continues across Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico declares a public health emergency.
Claudia Hammond is joined by Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University, Matt Fox, to hear how warmer temperatures have lead to outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease around the world, with millions of cases reported so far this year.
We speak to the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills at his latest exhibition inspired by his childhood experiences of disability, and hear the role it played in his journey into the arts.
Claudia and Matt discuss the spread of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases reported in all but 3 of the country’s 26 provinces.
We hear from Uganda about the project hoping to help provide essential equipment for safe anaesthesia in children’s surgery.
And the study that says just two nights of broken sleep are enough to make us feel years older.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Dan Welsh
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New way of giving lifesaving drug in childbirth
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How giving babies peanut butter could cut allergy
Obesity drug: New hope for weight loss?
How to cope with earthquake trauma
Vaccines: A tale of the unexpected
Supporting Ukrainian children
Biting back: The fight against snakebite
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After the floods
The ‘Endo-Monster inside me’
Family’s gene therapy journey
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Biggest health stories of the year
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