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Health Check: 07/02/2011

07/02/2011

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Access to medicines; how to sleep well; Cambodia toilets; preventing traumatic flashbacks

Access to medicines for the world's poor; the importance of a good night's sleep; selling toilets in Cambodia; and using computer games to prevent traumatic flashbacks

As the EU-India Trade Agreement reaches final stages of negotiation, aid agencies are warning that it could result in a dramatic rise in the price of non-branded drugs. The EU says the generic drug industry in India will not be harmed. Oxfam's senior policy advisor Mohga Kamal-Yani and EU spokesperson, John Clancy battle it out in the Health Check studio.  

A new survey of sleeping habits in the UK shows that people with insomnia are three times more likely to feel depressed than people who sleep well. Professor Colin Espie advises on how to get a good night's sleep.  

Guy De Launey reports from Cambodia on a new marketing campaign designed to shame villagers into buying a toilet. Until recently, just one in five people in the rural areas had access to a toilet. Now 10,000 toilets have been sold and it's hoped owning a toilet will soon become as much of a status symbol as having a mobile phone.   

Unpleasant flashbacks are a common symptom of post traumatic stress disorder  but if a certain kind of computer game is played immediately after the original traumatic event, it seems to help prevent such flashbacks from occurring at a later date. New research from Wellcome Trust Fellow, Emily Holmes at Oxford University.

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