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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Why is everyone ill? Can ketamine and therapy treat alcoholism?
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Why monitor changes in Covid viruses in China? A potential new therapy for alcoholism.
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How can a cold home affect your health?
Tue 1 Nov 2022
James is in South Wales to visit a cryo-lab and explore the impact of cold on the body.
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GP Records, Serotonin & how we get cancer
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Do you want to see your GP records at the touch of a button?
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Still Shielding; Childhood Vaccinations; Antibiotic Use
Tue 18 Oct 2022
The plight of the Covid-19 shielders.
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Have I dodged Covid? And skin colour and health
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Has James really dodged Covid? He gets to grips with his immunity, with blood test in tow.
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A spoonful of sweetener
Tue 27 Sep 2022
What do sweeteners do to our bodies? James Gallagher investigates.
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A good death with friends and family
Tue 9 Aug 2022
Friends and family are being trained to administer medicines to ease loved ones' dying.
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Covid waves, Gene therapy for haemophilia B, New uses for old drugs
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Smitha Mundasad asks what Covid will be like in the future, and new uses for old drugs.
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Are too many babies being diagnosed with cows' milk allergy?
Tue 26 Jul 2022
Cows' milk allergy in babies and gout in adults.
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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?
