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Oximetry at home, Rapid lateral flow tests for Covid

Could measuring oxygen levels at home, when people have covid, save lives?

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Exercise in the time of Covid

How to get back to exercise after recovering from Covid-19. Online physio to stop falls.

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Mouthwash & dentistry during the pandemic

Preventing coronavirus at the dentist, and can mouthwash really help kill coronavirus?

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Covid Symptoms

Symptoms for Covid-19 test. Training your sense of smell. Delirium as a Covid-19 symptom.

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Long Covid, Vaccine queries

How are people with long Covid being supported? James Gallagher investigates.

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Sexual health, contraception and tackling waiting lists

Contraception and sexual health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Tackling waiting lists.

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Human challenge trials, Chess & memory, Dementia misdiagnosed

The challenge trial that infects people with coronavirus, and how games help the brain.

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Communication

How to deliver bad news, how actors have been teaching PPE wearing medics to communicate.

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Covid vaccine side-effects

Covid vaccination and the science behind the side-effects.

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Recovery Trial

One clinical trial set up in nine days has saved hundreds of thousands of lives globally.

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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.

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Increase in childhood viruses and can you be too fit?

Why is there an increase in childhood viruses? Plus, can you be too fit?

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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.

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Fewer periods, The link between erectile dysfunction and the heart

Contraception and fewer periods, and the link between erectile dysfunction and the heart.

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Long covid in children & treating normal blood pressure

Long Covid in children and treating normal blood pressure.

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The vulva & your GP medical records

Few of us can identify the different parts of the vulva. James finds out why this matters.

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Ultra-processed vegetarian & vegan foods

How healthy are ultra-processed vegan and vegetarian foods? James Gallagher investigates.

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The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods

The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods

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Covid vaccines: their legacy & vaccinating teens

What say do teens have over their Covid vaccine? And where next for vaccine science?

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Gene Silencing Treatments

The Inside Health insiders' guide to gene silencing therapies, could they change medicine?

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PPE waste and blood test tube shortage

How the NHS is going green to reduce its PPE waste.

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Prediabetes, Experiments in zero gravity

Prediabetes and medical experiments in zero gravity.

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New Year's Resolutions

Are New Year's resolutions good for our health?

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Omicron

Why is the Omicron Covid variant more infectious? And are treatments still effective

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Asthma inhalers and Covid antivirals

Could switching your asthma inhaler be kinder to the planet and better for your health?

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New therapies for sickle cell disease

Hopes for a gene editing cure for sickle cell disease.

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Covid boosters, Vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy, Group B strep

James Gallagher tackles a favourite listener question: will we need boosters forever?

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Pig organs for transplant patients

We talk to the doctor behind the first successful pig heart to human operation.

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Can I take HRT forever & hydration myths

Can you take HRT forever? And what's the best way to keep hydrated? James busts the myths.

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Rapid genome sequencing in the clinic

Doctors break world speed record for sequencing patient's DNA in super-fast diagnosis.

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