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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC World Service.
I'm Claudia Hammond.
Today, the therapy where people who hear abusive voices in their heads create avatars of those voices and engage with them and even confront them.
We covered a tiny pilot study over a decade ago and now we have the results of a much bigger trial and plans to try it out in Ethiopia and India.
My guest today is Claire Wilson, who's a science writer for the Eye newspaper.
How are you?
Hello.
I'm very well, Hank.
What do you have for us today?
Well, I've been looking into women who donate eggs to help people having fertility treatment and whether they are informed enough about the medical side effects.