Inside Health Episodes Episode guide
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14/01/2025
Series that demystifies health issues, bringing clarity to conflicting advice.
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Can supervised toothbrushing fix the children's dental crisis?
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?
Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Chris wants more testing. We debate the evidence.
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What next for Alzheimer's treatment?
The first drugs to slow Alzheimer's progression won't be offered on the NHS. What's next?
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Focus on the breath
Could adjusting your breathing improve your health?
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How does embarrassment affect your health?
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
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
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
Mpox is classed a public health emergency, statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
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What should we do about vaping?
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?
Plus, sunburn remedies and how snus might enhance sporting performance
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How can we age well?
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?
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?
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?
Following the Princess of Wales’s diagnosis, we look at disease rates in people under 50.
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Can insomnia be fixed?
We're joined by a panel of experts to answer your questions on insomnia.
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We go on a tick hunt
James goes looking for ticks and asks how worried should we be about them.
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Is intermittent fasting good for you?
From weight loss to prolonging life, James Gallagher investigates trending fast diets
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Can noise harm our health?
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...
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
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
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?
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
Niall McCann on navigating the ups and downs of life with a spinal cord injury.
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Living in a Bacterial World
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?
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?
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
James Gallagher meets the people who help victims of sexual assault.
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Migraines and Headaches
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?
James Gallagher visits the lab to explore how much sitting is too much.