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Inside Health — 379 episodes
Could CAR-T therapy transform autoimmune disease?
New treatment for menopausal hot flush
Could the Kent meningitis outbreak happen again?
What's driving the outbreak of meningitis among students?
What causes vaccine hesitancy?
Why are men getting penis fillers?
Is the tide turning on ME research?
What are the side effects of weight loss drugs?
Why is it so hard to find an NHS dentist?
Unlocking the mystery of Epstein-Barr Virus
Should all babies have their genome sequenced at birth?
Where does air pollution go inside our body?
Can working up a sweat in a sauna improve your health?
The Revolution in Cystic Fibrosis Care That is Changing Lives
Potential Break Through in Dementia Treatment
Is it safe to give kids melatonin?
Can we reverse rising drug deaths?
Exosomes: Is cosmetics' biggest trend a health risk?
Health risks of bin strikes, measles warning and ethics
Sport and the female body
Can the ten-year plan save the NHS? Heart scans with AI, and who invented condoms?
Are we being too safe in the sun? How to balance the risks
Can you be addicted to sugar?
Assisted Dying: What might the final moments be like?
Dementia: Your questions answered and lion's mane mushrooms in the lab
Assisted dying: How can we be certain someone wants to die?
Assisted dying: Who’s eligible under the proposed bill?
How did the Covid-19 pandemic change medicine?
Why do we lose our hearing with age?
Will wearables revolutionise healthcare? Cardiff Science Festival special
Allergies: How to support young people as they grow up
How shoes affect our bodies and a focus on genital herpes
Bird flu update after UK farm worker infected and your questions on urinary problems
Raw milk: What are the risks and why are people talking about it?
Can you really boost your immune system?
Mould and Indoor Air Pollution: How Concerned Should You Be?
Can supervised toothbrushing fix the children's dental crisis?
Olympian Sir Chris Hoy wants more tests for prostate cancer - should it happen?
What next for Alzheimer's treatment?
Focus on the breath
How does embarrassment affect your health?
Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases
Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks
Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
What should we do about vaping?
Can diet and exercise ever replace statins?
How can we age well?
Is watching sport good for you?
What does alcohol do to the body and brain?
Are more young people getting cancer?
Can insomnia be fixed?
We go on a tick hunt
Is intermittent fasting good for you?
Can noise harm our health?
Coffee, nap, rave, repeat...
Why recovering from long Covid is a lot like training for the Olympics
A guide to the perimenopause
Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us?
Bladder, bowels and sex: Learning to live after my mountain accident
Living in a Bacterial World
How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?
What's stopping us from exercising in older age?
Inside a sexual assault referral centre
Migraines and Headaches
When does sitting become bad for health?
Why is syphilis making a comeback?
On the trail of a new street drug
What difference could new Alzheimer’s disease drugs make?
Could weight-loss drugs treat addiction?
What happened to mpox?
How fast should you eat your food?
How hot is too hot for human health?
Did Covid turn us into teeth grinders?
Parkinson's and Ballet
NHS weight-loss drug
Back pain
Sperm Counts
Psychedelics for depression
What soaring food prices are doing to our health
Women and heart attacks
Is a fungal pandemic possible?
Maggot therapy for difficult wounds
Why is everyone ill? Can ketamine and therapy treat alcoholism?
Lazy Guide to Exercise
How can a cold home affect your health?
GP Records, Serotonin & how we get cancer
Still Shielding; Childhood Vaccinations; Antibiotic Use
Have I dodged Covid? And skin colour and health
Secrets of sewage science
A spoonful of sweetener
A good death with friends and family
Covid waves, Gene therapy for haemophilia B, New uses for old drugs
Are too many babies being diagnosed with cows' milk allergy?
Monkeypox, mind body connections, are children exercising less since Covid?
Medical language, chemo brain & heatwaves
How's your hay fever?
The Power of the Dog
Long Covid revisited
Multiple sclerosis and the Epstein Barr virus
Cervical screening, blood donation & measles
Rapid genome sequencing in the clinic
Can I take HRT forever & hydration myths
Pig organs for transplant patients
Covid boosters, Vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy, Group B strep
New therapies for sickle cell disease
Asthma inhalers and Covid antivirals
Omicron
New Year's Resolutions
Prediabetes, Experiments in zero gravity
PPE waste and blood test tube shortage
Gene Silencing Treatments
Covid vaccines: their legacy & vaccinating teens
The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods
Ultra-processed vegetarian & vegan foods
The vulva & your GP medical records
Long covid in children & treating normal blood pressure
Fewer periods, The link between erectile dysfunction and the heart
When to take your child to A&E, ear wax and happiness
Increase in childhood viruses and can you be too fit?
How to defeat needle phobia and football and lateral flow tests.
Recovery Trial
Covid vaccine side-effects
Human challenge trials, Chess & memory, Dementia misdiagnosed
Sexual health, contraception and tackling waiting lists
Long Covid, Vaccine queries
Covid Symptoms
Mouthwash & dentistry during the pandemic
Exercise in the time of Covid
Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid
Statins and Nocebo, Vit D & Covid, new therapies for Covid
Covid in 2021 & a blood test that claims to detect cancer early
How Bangor Hospital's Intensive Care Unit is Preparing for Winter
20/10/2020
Covid-19 Test and Trace; Non-drug trials in a pandemic
Touch in Health Care
Antibodies to Covid in Kids, Covid and Colds, PIMS-TS,
Sticky Blood : From Blood Clots to Covid-19
Flu Vaccine; Dentistry and Covid; Diagnosing Coeliac disease; NHS preparations for winter
Bedside Covid Test; Longterm Covid Recovery
Prescribing Cycling; Temperature Checks; False Positives; Choirs and Covid-19
Public Health in the time of Coronavirus
Covid-19 and ethnicity in medicine; medical devices safety review
Covid-19 and the Impact on UK Cancer Services
Shielding; Pandemic Lexicon; Southampton Hospital; Doctor rejects NHS Superhero Tag
Longest Stay Covid-19 Patient; Health Inequalities; Agoraphobia; Covid-19 Testing
Acute Kidney Injury with Covid-19; Passive Immunisation; Online GPs; face mask interactions
Diabetes & Covid-19; Southampton Critical Care; Antigen Tests; Cytokine Storm
Smoking vs Covid-19; non-urgent treatments; loneliness surveys; Southampton update, covid and the law.
Southampton update; health anxiety; death certifications; fast-track drug screening
Covid-19 drug trial; Mental health alone; Southampton update; Antarctica's lockdown lessons
Covid-19 and moral injury; Asthma; Southampton update; Mental health services
Dispatches from University Hospital Southampton; Covid-19 and loss of smell; intensive care access; coronavirus home care
COVID-19 PPE; Secondary Pneumonia; Viral Load; Trauma Care in Fort William
Covid-19 Intensive Care Beds; Ibuprofen; Laser and Glaucoma; Faecal Incontinence
Coronavirus Special
Cigarette Filters; Sepsis
Air Pollution; Infectious Disease and Healthcare Staff; Hymenoplasty
Coronavirus Transmission; Breakfast; Women and Heart Attacks; Personal digital assistants
Respiratory Syncytial Virus; Coronavirus Vaccine; Unnecessary Vaginal Examinations; Compassion Fatigue
Coronavirus; Probiotics and Babies' gut health; Pill Organisers; Haemophilia therapy
Remote and Rural Healthcare
When to take Blood Pressure Pills; ADHD; Recurrent Fevers; Head lice
Antidepressant withdrawal; chemotherapy backpacks; dizziness; over the counter gels for pain relief
Zantac alert, Newborn brain injury, OTC guide, Surgery for reflux
Statins Over the Counter, Amyloidosis, Gene Silencing
Heparin and Pigs; Anticoagulants; Ovarian Freezing and Cancer; Thumb surgery
Prescription Charges; Acute Kidney Injury; MMR vaccine; Meningitis in Students
Singing for breathlessness, Aneurysms, Sunscreens and Myasthenia gravis
Bats and Rabies; Hip Dysplasia in babies; Online health tips; Clinical Law
Anti-inflammatories and ovulation; Probiotics and Parkinson's; Blood interval and patient forums online
Declining male fertility, Diagnosing urinary tract infections in the elderly, Guide to health websites
Obesity and Cancer campaign; Intelligent liver function tests; Getting reliable information from websites
Deprescribing
Moving the goalposts in research, Involving parents in the care of premature babies, Feedback
E-cigs, Prehabilitation before surgery, Hospital safety
CBD oil, Dental phobia, Gout
Deprescribing long-term opioids, Diagnosing concussion
Home fetal heart monitoring, Deconditioning in hospital, Alcohol harm paradox, Pre-eclampsia feedback
Online GP consultations, Pre-eclampsia and could aspirin treat cancer?
Migraine, Iron overload, Redefining low-risk cancers
Genes and confidentiality; sore throats and cancer; diet for epilepsy; shaving for hospital drips
Unproven IVF add-ons; Running injuries; DNA analysis on the NHS
Conflict of interest, Living with a stoma, Diet books
Drug shortages, Eye drops for myopia, Is muscle more dense than fat? Sarcopenia
High Blood Pressure
Blood pressure pills and cancer, Aortic aneurysm repair, Sinks and hospital infection
Epipens & Autoinjectors; Meningitis B Bedside Test; Age Related Macular Degeneration
France Delists Alzheimer's Drugs, Quality of Life After Hip Fracture, Prostate Cancer
Placebo on Prescription: Hepatitis C Transplants, Genes and Back Pain
Umbilical cord clamping, Natural cycles, Pedometers
Stroke man recovers speech, Apple watch and ECGs, Newborn heel prick test
Social prescribing, Topical steroid withdrawal, Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Aspirin, Stroke, Best Interests, Lasting Power of Attorney, Bawa Garba
Running, cycling and knee health, Adrenaline and cardiac arrest, Artificial eyes
Weaning Babies, Seeing the Same Doctor Saves Lives, NHS Research, Mental Capacity
Biosimilars, Insomnia, Abortion at home
Tamoxifen and Breast Cancer Prevention
Acid Attacks and Corneal Grafts, Bowel Cancer Screening, Sports Prosthesis for Children
Ageing brain, Fish Oils, Adaptive Trials, Yoga
Cardiac Rehab, Withdrawing from Antidepressants, Middle Ear Implant
Prostate Cancer
Diabetes Tech, Antidepressants, Stem Cell Therapy and knees
Medical Cannabis; Hidden Blood in the Urine; Ageing and Immunity
Rickets, Drug addiction recovery, Defibrillator support
Blood Clots, Iron Supplements, Doctor's Bag
Microprocessor Knees, The 'Glasgow Effect', Mesothelioma
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research, HPV Vaccine, BRCA genes
The Future Heart
Flu, Cow's milk allergy, Robotic pharmacy
Medical detection dogs
Antibiotics, Statins and Pneumonia, Neurosurgery for Epilepsy
Dr Google; Sexual orientation and the NHS; Hypermobility; Surgery for COPD
Vaginal mesh; alcohol and the heart
Big baby birth trial, Uveitis, Telephone triage, Burns
Scoliosis, Depression, Pets in Hospital, Eustachian Tubes
Addiction services; Schizophrenia; Hearts and cancer
Breast density; Health education; Switching outcomes
Antibiotics, Lung Cancer, Dying of a Broken Heart, Gender Bias
PPIs, Aspirin and cancer, Radiotherapy and smoking
Hepatitis B vaccine, Sheds, Obesity Paradox, Taking part in clinical trials
Robo-docs, using AI to diagnose; Pancreatic cancer; Statins and muscle aches
High costs of cheap medicines, Can a simple blood test help identify cancer, undescended testes, Aspirin
Cholesterol-lowering drug, Defibrillators, Post-traumatic stress disorder and heart disease, Lack of drugs in pregnancy
Bisphosphonates, IBS and diet, CRP test for infection, Randomisation
Opt-out organ donation; your body after death; what time of day to take blood pressure medication
Smoking in pregnancy; Lifestyle targets; Thyroid cancer; Flossing
Vitamin D, Air Ambulance blood trial, Phantom limb pain, Sitting-rising test
NHS Special: What needs to give?
Over-the-counter prescriptions, Virtual reality in rehabilitation, Sore throats and antibiotics
Why hernias, hands and varicose veins might not be treated on the NHS
Preventable deaths, Poo bank, Waterbirths
NHS under pressure, Breast cancer prevention, Lactose intolerance
Paracetamol, Prostate and HIFU, Uncertainty - Oxygen and Heart Attacks
Prostate Cancer
Dying at Home, Familial Hypercholesterolaemia FH, Delirium
Meningitis ACWY vaccine, Testosterone for women, Allotments on prescription, Heart failure and iron
Ministrokes, Midwife study, Cyclic vomiting syndrome, Noise in intensive care
Breast cancer, Alcoholism, CRPS, Generics
Welsh patient power, Liquid biopsies, Food allergies, Dosing errors
Obesity and smoking, Blood pressure, ADHD
Why Becomea doctor? 3. A Matter of Life and Death
Why Become a Doctor? 2. All Work and No Play?
Why Become a Doctor? 1. The Golden Age
Personalised Medicine: Dose By Design
Zika in UK, Hip arthroscopy, Limits of cancer treatment
Statins in the media, Unusual neurological itch, The hunger hormone, Viagra
Braintraining and dementia; Cluster headaches; Cancer rehab; #hellomynameis
Papilloedema; Cardiac death in sport; Diagnosing early miscarriage; Warfarin
Care.data, Asthma, Acne rosacea, Pacemakers
Multi-morbidity, one-shot radiotherapy during surgery for early stage breast cancer
Health checks, Fertility, Adjustment
Preventive HIV therapy, Sugar tax, Bowel cancer, Surgery
Asthma, Visual snow, Confounding factors
Dementia advice, Antidepressants, Transplant organs, Vaginal seeding
Ovarian cancer, PBC, Treating severe head injury
Charles Bonnet syndrome, Co-proxamol, Meningitis B vaccine, Smart tablets
E-cigarettes, Asherman's syndrome, Rugby
Chicken pox in pregnancy, Club foot, Test for Conn's syndrome, Teeth brushing
Blood pressure, Palm oil
Folic acid in flour, Southampton FC and hip and groin pain, Online private doctors
Hospital admissions and the 'weekend effect', Peyronie's disease
Health and Exercise Inside Health Special
Pregabalin and gabapentin misuse, Natural birth after caesarean, Adrenaline auto-injectors
Pollution, Falls in the elderly, False positives and negatives, Meningitis B and teenagers
Cancer drugs fund, Winter flu vaccine, Bandy legs and knock knees, Peer review
League tables, Nits, Feeling the cold, Language - Surrogate marker
Aspirin and heart attacks, BPPV vertigo, Patronising language, Carpal tunnel sydrome, Osteoporosis treatment
Meningitis B, Hormones and depression, Statins, Unexpected heart attacks
Emergency abdominal surgery, Thermometers, Vitamins and dementia, Risk
Off-patent Drugs Bill, Pre-diabetes, Sepsis, All-cause mortality
Asthma inhalers, Knee arthroscopy, Pelvic girdle pain, Medically unexplained symptoms
Tax on sugary drinks, Low libido in women, Europe's largest robotic pharmacy
Gestational diabetes, Low-carb diets, Needle pain
Future of 7-day GP Access Pilots, Mers, Laughing Gas Health Risks
Cervical Screening in Older Women; Hepatitis E in Nepal; Enlarged Prostate; Significance
Flibanserin; Strokes in young people; Outdoor swimming; Research terminology - Causation v Association
Feedback on Teenage Pregnancy, Smoothies, AMD, Hospital Beds, Frailty, Feedback on Gallstones, Moles
Avastin, Peanut Allergy, Bowel Bacteria and Faecal Transplants
Cigarette Packets, Sex Education, Gallstones, Cosmetic Surgery
Saturated Fats, Moles, Egg Freezing
Drug Driving; End of Life Care; Smart Drugs
Heart and Exercise, Smoking and Alcohol, Weight Management, Hepatitis C
Low NHS morale; Flying when pregnant; Sugary drinks & menarche; FGM
NHS Satisfaction Survey; NHS & cancer; Headphones volume; P4 Medicine
Drugs link to dementia, Gluten-free, Heart disease in women, Social jetlag, Boilers on prescription
Mutant Flu, Weight-Loss Surgery, Young Men and Body Image, CVID, Dental Check-ups, Doctors' Example, Dry January Findings
Dry January and Nalmefene, PLAC Blood Test for Inflammation, Dental Check-ups
A&E in winter, Fruit juice, Opioid drugs and chronic pain, No evidence, Obesity
GP incentives; Walk-in CT scans; Hot Flushes feedback; New anti-coagulants
Private hospitals, Hyperbaric medicine, Sick day rules to reduce kidney damage, Warfarin
Sickness Absence, Ankle Arthritis, Hot Flushes, Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Ebola, Painkillers, Immunity (CVID), Integrated Health, Thyroid and Pregnancy
Antibiotics, Winter Flu, NHS Continuing Healthcare, Snoring
Conflict resolution in Ashya King case; GPs near work; Lipoedema
Conflicted Medicine: Public Health Campaigns
Conflicted Medicine: Specialists and GPs
Conflicted Medicine: Pharmaceuticals
HIV and MS; Black skin and cancer; Iron overload; Losing your sense of smell
Back pain and paracetamol, blood thinning drugs, drug driving, kidney stones
Statins, Cholesterol-lowering spreads, Olive oil, Diet and inflammatory bowel disease, Singers' nodules
Screening for Breast Cancer
Ebola, Bike saddles, Recording consultations, Insect bites
Statins; improving cancer survival rates; reflux and heartburn; recycling medicines.
Hospital patients dying of thirst; Paracetamol; Saturated fats; Baclofen and alcoholism
Video consultations, Low-fibre diets, Testosterone
Anti-virals for flu, Bod Pod test for body fat, Patients' weight, X-rays and cancer
Care of the dying, Birdsong in GP surgeries, Sex development
Stress and pregnancy, CBT for insomnia, Cluster headache, Smoking and mental health
Cancer of the cervix & HPV; Oral cancer & HPV; Eating late; Feedback on Sugar, Thrush, Cataracts; Scarfree operations
Sugar, Prescription charges, Thrush, Iron and strokes
Scarlet Fever; Overtreating the over-80s; ICU and trauma; Feedback on constipation; Cataracts
Selenium & Vitamin E supplements in men, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Childhood Constipation
Loneliness, Statins, Feedback on glucosamine and gut instinct, Cycle lanes and air pollution, Coughs and antibiotics
Glucosamine for osteoarthritis; Alcohol addiction; Gut instinct
Testosterone; Antidepressants in Pregnancy; Laptop Use at Night and Sleep; Shifting School Times
E-cigs; PPI feedback; Be assertive with your doctor; Prostate cancer diagnosis
Care data, New gastric balloon, Vocal dysphonia, Antacids
Gender X; Diabetes diagnosis; Trigeminal Neuralgia; Oesophageal cancer
Free Vit D for kids, Exercise & depression, Asthma inhalers feedback, Fungal nails, GP pilots
Diabetes Type II; Obesity; Feedback on Anorexia and Shingles; Lyme Disease
Vaccinations, One-to-one midwives, Leg ulcers, Asthma inhalers
Shingles vaccine; Energy drinks; Liver function tests; Anorexia
Flu vaccine and narcolepsy, Stoptober, Herbal medicines, Calcium supplements
Parkinson's Disease, Breast cancer screening, Slimming pills, Sunscreens, Teeth
Whooping cough; fish oils and prostate cancer; aortic aneurysm screening in men
NHS Health Checks, Blood Service, Crohn's Disease, Gestational diabetes
Appendicitis, Artificial hips, Temporal Arteritis, Urinary stones
Measles, Prostate, Juvenile arthritis, Scruffy docs, Xenon lung scanner
Hayfever management; Generic drugs; Diclofenac; Breastfeeding and cheese molars; Pacemakers; Antibiotics and MS
Preventing breast cancer, Iodine deficiency, Antibiotics for back pain
Breast cancer and Tamoxifen; Drug holidays; Medicines for children; Cardiac training range
High-intensity exercise, Measles, Teeth whitening, Voice-lift
Red Meat & Heart Disease, Measles, Hypopituitarism
Obesity and Cancer, Fasting Diets and NHS 111
NHS Reforms
Alcohol pricing, Phages, Cervical smears, Swaddling and hips, Smart beds
Antibiotics, cervical smears, premature labour, hip replacements
NHS reforms, epilepsy and pregnancy, thermometers
Clinical trials, Yellow cards, Chemo brain, Conduct Disorder
Drinking urine, diclofenac, pigeon fancier's lung, hospital food
Shingles vaccine, Pill colour, First Aid, Contraception, Parkinson's
Yellow cards, virtual autopsies, genetics and cancer
Alcohol, cancer treatments, hair, halitosis
Asthma, Sunbeds, BMI, Dry mouth
Junk food, asthma and eczema; salt; fingerprinting; TGA; amitriptyline
Dementia, Sleep, Thyroxine
Self-Harm, Insulin Pumps, Night Terrors, Penile Cancer
Edge of space, Laparotomy, Tremor, Pyjamas
Stem cells, Functional disorders, Epilepsy, Stoptober, Whiplash
What Doctors Don't Tell You, hepatitis E, vertigo
'SARS-like' virus, reflux heartburn, corrective baby helmets
Ovarian cancer screening, BP tables, Cough, Vegetarianism, Gallstones
Viruses and asthma, osteoarthritis, cartilage repair
New HIV test, Vitamin D and TB, Vitamin B12, mouth ulcers
BP reax, fibroids, access to notes, botox
Over-diagnosis: High Blood Pressure
Over-diagnosis: Chronic Kidney Disease
Steroids, the killing season, telehealth, Dupuytren's
Liver disease, Hepatitis C
GP Access, Telehealth, ICU, Sewage
Whooping cough, Cardiac screening, Antibacterials, Selfcare, Xbox
Coughs, vocal cord dysfunction and athletes, taste and smell, waiting room toys
GI bleeds, pregnancy and working, frozen shoulder, patient surveys
Teenage depression, Choir, Heart failure, Protein shakes
Whooping cough, maternal deaths, blushing, intestinal transit
Morphine and the heart, antibiotics and the appendix, sick notes, blood tests, painkillers
Prescription charges, HPV vaccine, tattoos, cycle helmets
Aspirin, holiday sickness, ADHD
PCOS, garlic, PSA test, dignity
Red meat and heart health, carbon monoxide, screening, joints supplements
Vitiligo, diabetes care, knee implants, masks, social media
Sleep tabs death, e-cigs, GP examples, underactive thyroid and pregnancy
Anti-smoking incentives, ACE inhibitor cough, Raynaud's, fizzy drinks
Patient records, cholesterol, statins, whiplash
Hospital infections, nutrition, gout, gluten, Shockwave, tennis elbow
Pseudomonas, anti-coags, alcohol, pres drugs, high heels
NHS bill, tinnitus, pedestrians, teenage info, Vitamin D, cough mix
Health bill, Memory, Resuscitation, Flu
Med devices, Testosterone, Itching, BP, Pills, Tourette's