Claudia Hammond is joined by journalist Andrew Green to check-in on their 2024 health predictions and review just how accurate they were. Together, they explore the stories that we didn’t see coming and the game-changing medical innovations that shaped global health this year. Plus, the unusual Ig Nobel medicine prize, and a healthy dose of competition in the form of the ultimate health fact-off.
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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC World Service.
I'm Claudia Hammond.
If you listen regularly, then thank you for your company this year.
Today, we thought we would look back on 2024 and what's happened in the world of health.
Which medical breakthroughs should we be celebrating this year?
Which diseases have made the headlines and which have disappeared from the headline, but for positive reasons?
And what do we know now that we didn't know this time last year?
To help me, I have global health journalist Andrew Green with me for the whole show today.
Welcome back.
Has this year been keeping you busy with health stories?