Antibiotics, Lung Cancer, Dying of a Broken Heart, Gender Bias
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Margaret McCartney unpicks recent headlines suggesting its okay not to finish your antibiotics; Lung Cancer screening in the high risk; Can you die a broken heart? Evidence suggests this is a real condition called Takotsubo syndrome and is much more common than previously thought. And gender bias in trials.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
| 0:05.4 | The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's |
| 0:10.6 | Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials |
| 0:16.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.3 | Coming up today, gender bias in clinical trials. What's good for the gander isn't necessarily good for the goose. |
| 0:41.0 | Dying of a broken heart. |
| 0:42.8 | It's not just a saying. |
| 0:44.4 | Shock following loss and bereavement really can damage your heart, |
| 0:48.2 | and dangerously so. |
| 0:49.3 | I collapsed in the chair. My heart stopped. |
| 0:52.7 | Virtually mid-sentence. |
| 0:54.4 | Thankfully, David's quick response, commencing CPR, that ultimately saved my life. |
| 1:02.0 | And the latest developments in screening for the UK's biggest cancer killer, lung cancer. |
| 1:07.7 | But first, antibiotics and recent headlines claiming that new research suggests it's |
| 1:12.2 | okay for people to stop taking them once they feel better, rather than finishing the course |
| 1:17.0 | as currently advised. The media coverage caused quite a bit of confusion, and as ever, the headlines |
| 1:22.7 | don't quite reflect the true story. Not least that there was no new clinical trial. Margaret McCartney |
| 1:29.0 | has been taking a closer look. It wasn't a new research study. It was a mixture of a semi-review |
| 1:34.9 | of the literature about what we already know about antibiotic courses, plus some opinions by some |
| 1:40.2 | experts in the area, infection specialists, a microbiologist, a psychologist and a statistician as well. |
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