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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Can supervised toothbrushing fix the children's dental crisis?
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Around a third of British children have tooth decay. Is supervised toothbrushing the fix?
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Olympian Sir Chris Hoy wants more tests for prostate cancer - should it happen?
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Chris wants more testing. We debate the evidence.
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What next for Alzheimer's treatment?
Tue 5 Nov 2024
The first drugs to slow Alzheimer's progression won't be offered on the NHS. What's next?
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How does embarrassment affect your health?
Tue 22 Oct 2024
And what can doctors and the NHS do to help alleviate the problem.
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Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases
Tue 15 Oct 2024
How gene analysis is impacting treatment and care for children with rare genetic disorders
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Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks
Tue 27 Aug 2024
We meet a patient on a revolutionary cancer vaccine trial, plus planning for cyber attacks
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Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Mpox is classed a public health emergency, statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
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What should we do about vaping?
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Is vaping a tool to quit smoking or a gateway to starting? And why verrucas won't budge.
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Can diet and exercise ever replace statins?
Tue 6 Aug 2024
Plus, sunburn remedies and how snus might enhance sporting performance
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How can we age well?
Tue 30 Jul 2024
James and the Hay Festival audience try to conquer ageing, guided by a panel of experts.
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Is watching sport good for you?
Tue 23 Jul 2024
James monitors the physical ups and downs of watching the Euros final in an experiment.
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What does alcohol do to the body and brain?
Tue 7 May 2024
James visits the pub to find out what happens when he drinks two pints of lager.
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Are more young people getting cancer?
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Following the Princess of Wales’s diagnosis, we look at disease rates in people under 50.
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Can insomnia be fixed?
Tue 23 Apr 2024
We're joined by a panel of experts to answer your questions on insomnia.
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We go on a tick hunt
Tue 16 Apr 2024
James goes looking for ticks and asks how worried should we be about them.
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Is intermittent fasting good for you?
Tue 9 Apr 2024
From weight loss to prolonging life, James Gallagher investigates trending fast diets
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Can noise harm our health?
Tue 2 Apr 2024
We head into the lab to find out how unwanted sound can affect the body and brain.
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Coffee, nap, rave, repeat...
Tue 13 Feb 2024
We discuss how much caffeine is too much, whether you need a nap and day-time raving.
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Why recovering from long Covid is a lot like training for the Olympics
Tue 6 Feb 2024
We visit the first long Covid clinic to find out what we've learnt about the condition.
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A guide to the perimenopause
Tue 30 Jan 2024
How to prepare for the perimenopause and why it’s not all bad.
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Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us?
Tue 23 Jan 2024
We meet the medics treating people in unusual places, and we talk all things fermented.
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Bladder, bowels and sex: Learning to live after my mountain accident
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Niall McCann on navigating the ups and downs of life with a spinal cord injury.
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Living in a Bacterial World
Tue 9 Jan 2024
Exploring our microbial metropolis - and is being clean important for good health?
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How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?
Tue 24 Oct 2023
As cold and flu season nears, James finds out what the remedies in his cabinet do to help.
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What's stopping us from exercising in older age?
Tue 17 Oct 2023
An 80-year-old athlete and a team of sports scientists help explain what can hold us back.
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Inside a sexual assault referral centre
Tue 10 Oct 2023
James Gallagher meets the people who help victims of sexual assault.
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Migraines and Headaches
Tue 3 Oct 2023
As we enter a new era of migraine treatments, we answer your head pain questions.
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When does sitting become bad for health?
Tue 26 Sep 2023
James Gallagher visits the lab to explore how much sitting is too much.
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Why is syphilis making a comeback?
Tue 19 Sep 2023
Syphilis is at its highest rate since 1948. So why aren't we talking more about it?
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