Inside Health Episodes Episode guide
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How's your hay fever?
James Gallagher finds out everything you need to know.
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The Power of the Dog
Does owning a dog lengthen your life?
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Long Covid revisited
It's a long Covid reunion on Inside Health.
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Multiple sclerosis and the Epstein Barr virus
Multiple sclerosis mystery solved: Glandular fever virus is the cause.
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Cervical screening, blood donation & measles
How often do we need a smear test? James Gallagher investigates.
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Rapid genome sequencing in the clinic
Doctors break world speed record for sequencing patient's DNA in super-fast diagnosis.
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Can I take HRT forever & hydration myths
Can you take HRT forever? And what's the best way to keep hydrated? James busts the myths.
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Pig organs for transplant patients
We talk to the doctor behind the first successful pig heart to human operation.
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Covid boosters, Vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy, Group B strep
James Gallagher tackles a favourite listener question: will we need boosters forever?
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New therapies for sickle cell disease
Hopes for a gene editing cure for sickle cell disease.
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Asthma inhalers and Covid antivirals
Could switching your asthma inhaler be kinder to the planet and better for your health?
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Omicron
Why is the Omicron Covid variant more infectious? And are treatments still effective
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New Year's Resolutions
Are New Year's resolutions good for our health?
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Prediabetes, Experiments in zero gravity
Prediabetes and medical experiments in zero gravity.
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PPE waste and blood test tube shortage
How the NHS is going green to reduce its PPE waste.
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Gene Silencing Treatments
The Inside Health insiders' guide to gene silencing therapies, could they change medicine?
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Covid vaccines: their legacy & vaccinating teens
What say do teens have over their Covid vaccine? And where next for vaccine science?
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The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods
The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods
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Ultra-processed vegetarian & vegan foods
How healthy are ultra-processed vegan and vegetarian foods? James Gallagher investigates.
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The vulva & your GP medical records
Few of us can identify the different parts of the vulva. James finds out why this matters.
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Long covid in children & treating normal blood pressure
Long Covid in children and treating normal blood pressure.
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Fewer periods, The link between erectile dysfunction and the heart
Contraception and fewer periods, and the link between erectile dysfunction and the heart.
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When to take your child to A&E, ear wax and happiness
When should you take your child to A&E? James Gallagher busts the myths around fever.
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Increase in childhood viruses and can you be too fit?
Why is there an increase in childhood viruses? Plus, can you be too fit?
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How to defeat needle phobia and football and lateral flow tests.
How to tackle needle phobia and get the vaccine, plus one man's lateral flow experiment.
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Recovery Trial
One clinical trial set up in nine days has saved hundreds of thousands of lives globally.
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Covid vaccine side-effects
Covid vaccination and the science behind the side-effects.
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Communication
How to deliver bad news, how actors have been teaching PPE wearing medics to communicate.
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Human challenge trials, Chess & memory, Dementia misdiagnosed
The challenge trial that infects people with coronavirus, and how games help the brain.
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Sexual health, contraception and tackling waiting lists
Contraception and sexual health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Tackling waiting lists.