Antibiotics, cervical smears, premature labour, hip replacements
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Following the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies apocalyptic report comparing the threat of antibiotic resistance to terrorism, Dr Mark Porter looks at the overuse of antibiotics. He asks is it even useful to ask if an infection is viral or bacterial - are antibiotics the right thing even in a bad, bacterial infection? 60,000 pregnant women will go into premature labour every year in the UK. Mark visits a pioneering clinic at St Thomas's hospital in London to prevent premature labour. He also asks do all women need smear tests even if they're in long term monogamous relationships, have always had clear tests or are in a lesbian relationship? And aspirin to prevent the risk of stroke after hip replacements.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
| 0:09.9 | Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen, |
| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:34.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.4 | Coming up today, joint replacements and stroke. |
| 0:38.5 | New research suggests that as many as one in 30 people having a hip replacement have a stroke while recovering from their operation. |
| 0:45.1 | I'll be talking to the man behind the study and finding out how an aspirin a day could protect them. |
| 0:50.8 | Screening the cancer of the cervix. |
| 0:52.9 | Can some women get away without having regular smears? |
| 0:56.3 | We answer a listener's question about the evidence behind the need for smear tests in older women |
| 1:00.6 | who are monogamous, those who've given up sex altogether, or those in a lesbian relationship. |
| 1:06.0 | And what about women who've never been sexually active? |
| 1:08.8 | If you've never had any form of sexual contact, which includes touching, then I think |
| 1:15.2 | you're probably okay. |
| 1:16.5 | But there are very few people, actually, I think, who've never had any form of sexual contact, |
| 1:23.2 | either touching or penetrative sex or orogenital, you know, because it includes all of those. |
| 1:28.8 | And premature labour. I visit a pioneering clinic using new technology to identify pregnant women |
| 1:34.5 | at risk of going into labour early, a method that, if adopted nationally, could prevent |
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