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Hello, I'm Claudia Hammond.
Welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
Now, it's been a busy week with announcements from President Trump coming at speed.
Even since last week show there have been more directives which could impact global health.
In a moment, I'll be finding out what the order for US foreign aid officials to stop work will mean.
And later we'll hear what the impact might be of a separate executive order concerning abortion.
Before that, let me introduce my guest for the whole show today, Dr.
Graham Easton, who's professor of clinical communication skills at Queen Mary University of London.
These announcements are coming thick and fast, aren't they?
They are.
It's quite hard to keep up actually.
Yeah, fear not.
We will have a summary of all of it in a moment.
But what else do you have for.
Well,
I'll be looking at a muscle patch which has been developed in the lab to repair failing hearts