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One of the most striking features of the coronavirus pandemic is the disproportionate toll it鈥檚 taken on some groups in society. Research by the Office for National Statistics shows black people are nearly twice as likely to have died from coronavirus than white people. And you see a similar pattern of elevated risk in other ethnicities too. Why is this? And to what extent is Covid 19 shedding light on approaches being taken in medicine more generally when assessing and treating people from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic groups?

We hear from GP Dr Navjoyt Ladher who鈥檚 been navigating the language of race for the British Medical Journal; Dr Rohin Francis, cardiologist and host of the Medlife Crisis podcast, and Prof Kamlish Khunti who鈥檚 establishing a detailed Covid risk score to establish exactly who鈥檚 at most risk of infection.

A major review has found women鈥檚 lives have been ruined and babies have been harmed in the womb and yet concerns were dismissed for years as simply 鈥渨omen鈥檚 problems鈥�. Those are the findings of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review. It looked at the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos, the epilepsy drug sodium valproate and vaginal mesh implants which are used to treat prolapse and incontinence. Inside Health鈥檚 resident GP Margaret McCartney. discusses what needs to change.

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Adrian Washbourne