Hello, I'm Claudia Hammond here with Health Check from the BBC World Service,
where we have scoured the globe and the medical literature to see what's happening in health this week that we need to know about.
In a moment, we'll be starting with the outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone,
where the virus is spreading rapidly.
And later on, is there a new way of flushing out HIV from its hiding places in cells?
But we're also limbering up in the studio because BBC reporter Laura Foster is here.
And we're going to be hearing why the secret to healthy ageing lies not just in strength,
but in power.
Laura, I've got an exercise for you to do later.
Are you up for that?
Oh, of course I am.
Of course, every time I come here, you make me do something silly.
We do make you do something, that's true.
Silly, but important.
And then when I let you sit down again, what else do you have for us today?
So I've got some research into dementia,
which suggests that people born more recently are less likely to develop dementia in their lifetimes compared to,
say, if they'd been born decades before that.
And then I've got some good news, maybe,
if you're a woman in your 40s and 50s and you like coffee.