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Saleyha Ahsan on how Bangor Hospital's Intensive Care Unit is preparing for winter.
Covid in 2021 & a blood test that claims to detect cancer early
Covid in 2021 and a blood test that claims to detect cancer early.
Statins and Nocebo, Vit D & Covid, new therapies for Covid
Research trials for Covid-19. Do vitamin D supplements prevent infection from SARS-COV-2?
Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid
Could measuring oxygen levels at home, when people have covid, save lives?
Exercise in the time of Covid
How to get back to exercise after recovering from Covid-19. Online physio to stop falls.
Mouthwash & dentistry during the pandemic
Preventing coronavirus at the dentist, and can mouthwash really help kill coronavirus?
Covid Symptoms
Symptoms for Covid-19 test. Training your sense of smell. Delirium as a Covid-19 symptom.
Long Covid, Vaccine queries
How are people with long Covid being supported? James Gallagher investigates.
Sexual health, contraception and tackling waiting lists
Contraception and sexual health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Tackling waiting lists.
Human challenge trials, Chess & memory, Dementia misdiagnosed
The challenge trial that infects people with coronavirus, and how games help the brain.
Communication
How to deliver bad news, how actors have been teaching PPE wearing medics to communicate.
Covid vaccine side-effects
Covid vaccination and the science behind the side-effects.
Recovery Trial
One clinical trial set up in nine days has saved hundreds of thousands of lives globally.
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.
Increase in childhood viruses and can you be too fit?
Why is there an increase in childhood viruses? Plus, can you be too fit?
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.
Fewer periods, The link between erectile dysfunction and the heart
Contraception and fewer periods, and the link between erectile dysfunction and the heart.
Long covid in children & treating normal blood pressure
Long Covid in children and treating normal blood pressure.
The vulva & your GP medical records
Few of us can identify the different parts of the vulva. James finds out why this matters.
Ultra-processed vegetarian & vegan foods
How healthy are ultra-processed vegan and vegetarian foods? James Gallagher investigates.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods
Covid vaccines: their legacy & vaccinating teens
What say do teens have over their Covid vaccine? And where next for vaccine science?
Gene Silencing Treatments
The Inside Health insiders' guide to gene silencing therapies, could they change medicine?
PPE waste and blood test tube shortage
How the NHS is going green to reduce its PPE waste.
Prediabetes, Experiments in zero gravity
Prediabetes and medical experiments in zero gravity.
New Year's Resolutions
Are New Year's resolutions good for our health?
Omicron
Why is the Omicron Covid variant more infectious? And are treatments still effective
Asthma inhalers and Covid antivirals
Could switching your asthma inhaler be kinder to the planet and better for your health?
New therapies for sickle cell disease
Hopes for a gene editing cure for sickle cell disease.
Covid boosters, Vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy, Group B strep
James Gallagher tackles a favourite listener question: will we need boosters forever?