Inside Health Podcast
Series that demystifies health issues, separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice.
Episodes to download
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Monkeypox, mind body connections, are children exercising less since Covid?
Tue 19 Jul 2022
James asks if the monkeypox virus is evolving. New research on mind body connections.
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Medical language, chemo brain & heatwaves
Tue 12 Jul 2022
James Gallagher explores the words that can belittle or blame when we visit the doctor.
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Multiple sclerosis and the Epstein Barr virus
Tue 8 Mar 2022
Multiple sclerosis mystery solved: Glandular fever virus is the cause.
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Cervical screening, blood donation & measles
Tue 1 Mar 2022
How often do we need a smear test? James Gallagher investigates.
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Rapid genome sequencing in the clinic
Tue 22 Feb 2022
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
Tue 15 Feb 2022
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
Tue 8 Feb 2022
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
Tue 1 Feb 2022
James Gallagher tackles a favourite listener question: will we need boosters forever?
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New therapies for sickle cell disease
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Hopes for a gene editing cure for sickle cell disease.
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Asthma inhalers and Covid antivirals
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Could switching your asthma inhaler be kinder to the planet and better for your health?
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Omicron
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Why is the Omicron Covid variant more infectious? And are treatments still effective
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Prediabetes, Experiments in zero gravity
Tue 2 Nov 2021
Prediabetes and medical experiments in zero gravity.
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PPE waste and blood test tube shortage
Tue 26 Oct 2021
How the NHS is going green to reduce its PPE waste.
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Gene Silencing Treatments
Tue 19 Oct 2021
The Inside Health insiders' guide to gene silencing therapies, could they change medicine?
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Covid vaccines: their legacy & vaccinating teens
Tue 12 Oct 2021
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
Tue 5 Oct 2021
The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods
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Ultra-processed vegetarian & vegan foods
Tue 28 Sep 2021
How healthy are ultra-processed vegan and vegetarian foods? James Gallagher investigates.
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The vulva & your GP medical records
Tue 10 Aug 2021
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
Tue 3 Aug 2021
Long Covid in children and treating normal blood pressure.
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Fewer periods, The link between erectile dysfunction and the heart
Tue 27 Jul 2021
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
Tue 20 Jul 2021
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?
Tue 13 Jul 2021
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.
Tue 6 Jul 2021
How to tackle needle phobia and get the vaccine, plus one man's lateral flow experiment.
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Recovery Trial
Tue 23 Mar 2021
One clinical trial set up in nine days has saved hundreds of thousands of lives globally.
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Covid vaccine side-effects
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Covid vaccination and the science behind the side-effects.
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Human challenge trials, Chess & memory, Dementia misdiagnosed
Tue 2 Mar 2021
The challenge trial that infects people with coronavirus, and how games help the brain.
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