The discovery of Micro RNA has won the Nobel Prize for medicine. We learn more about what micro RNA is, how it contributes to gene regulation, and what that means for our health. Also on the programme, there has been an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, and the pharmaceutical company Gilead is making a revolutionary HIV medication available to countries that need it most. But does this good news story have an unexpected downside. We learn more on Health Check.
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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond here with you for the next half an hour with the latest from the world of health.
This week there is good news and bad.
In Colombia, there's been a tripling in non fatal drug overdoses since 2010.
And Rwanda is seeing its first ever cases of the deadly Marburg virus.
But meanwhile, two scientists have won a Nobel Prize for their groundbreaking work on gene expression in cells.
We'll explain that.
And a new twice yearly injection to protect against HIV is being licensed in low income countries, though not yet in middle income states.