Ageing brain, Fish Oils, Adaptive Trials, Yoga
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Deciding between healthy ageing and early dementia; how useful are modern imaging techniques in deciphering this difficult question that many families are grappling with. Margaret McCartney tries to make sense of conflicting research on the impact of fish oils on children's reading ability and memory - how can the same research group, in the same university run two trials and get completely opposite results? And recently Baroness Tessa Jowell called for more access to adaptive trials but what does this type of research actually mean for patients taking part? Plus the evidence for the health benefits of yoga.
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| 0:29.6 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.5 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:35.9 | Coming up over the next half hour, supplements for schools. |
| 0:39.8 | Margaret McCartney tries to make sense of conflicting research |
| 0:42.7 | on the impact of fish oils on children's reading ability and memory. |
| 0:47.6 | Adaptive trials, held it by some, including Labour Peer Tessa Jal, |
| 0:52.0 | as a more flexible, faster way of developing new treatments for cancer. |
| 0:56.6 | But what does being in an adaptive trial actually mean for patients? |
| 1:01.3 | And the health benefits of yoga. |
| 1:03.7 | Not the sort of thing we normally cover on inside health, |
| 1:06.1 | but when the evidence-based Cochrane Library set out to assess whether yoga helps people with conditions |
| 1:11.4 | like back pain and heart disease, we couldn't resist asking what the researchers discovered. |
| 1:17.4 | But first, a question from a listener that I suspect will ring bells with most of you for one |
| 1:22.8 | reason or another. I'm 84 years old. I'm physically very fit and walk and swim. |
| 1:29.7 | And recently I've been under quite a lot of stress. |
| 1:34.0 | And I've been finding that I'm losing my memory, short-term memory, forgetting things. |
| 1:39.7 | And I obviously saw my doctor who arranged me to have a scan. |
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