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Health Check: A year in health in review

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2023/12/27 GMT

A year in health in review

BBC World Service - Health Check, A year in health in review

The highs and lows of global health news in 2023 reviewed

2023 in review. AI in medicine; Drugs for obesity; What happened next in the international contaminated cough syrup scandal? And the disgraced transplant surgeon.

As 2024 draws ever closer, Claudia Hammond looks back at the medical news, trends and advances which the last twelve months have brought us. She is joined in the studio by BBC health reporter Philippa Roxby and Graham Easton, Professor of Clinical Communication Skills at Queen Mary University in London who debate their favourite health advances of the year.  

And Claudia returns to some of the biggest health news stories of the year to ask what happened next? Reuters’ Krishna N. Das gives an update on the contaminated cough syrup scandal in which more than 300 children are known to have died worldwide. And she revisits a story Health Check has been following for more than a decade; the case of disgraced transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, as a new TV series hits Netflix.  
 
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Clare Salisbury

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