Appendicitis, Artificial hips, Temporal Arteritis, Urinary stones
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tailor made artificial hips - why we should learn more from failed joint replacements. The headache that really can be blinding and can cost you your vision unless treated promptly. Plus - why Elton John is waiting two weeks for his appendix operation that has caused him to cancel his European tour.
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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. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, in today's program, Are You Drinking Enough? |
| 0:38.8 | I meet a surgeon who believes drinking more throughout the day, particularly during hot spells |
| 0:43.4 | like this, could help slow the rise in people troubled by kidney stones, a fate that |
| 0:48.6 | already awaits one in 10 of us in the UK at some stage during our lives. |
| 0:53.0 | Blinding headaches, an inside health listener wants to know why it took so long to diagnose the core in the UK at some stage during our lives. Blinding headaches. |
| 0:59.3 | An inside health listener wants to know why it took so long to diagnose the cause of her symptoms when time really wasn't on her side. |
| 1:02.5 | One day I got terrible double vision in one eye, so I phoned one-one-one, |
| 1:07.0 | and they told me to go straight to A&E within an hour. |
| 1:10.9 | And artificial hips, why we should be learning from recent failures |
| 1:14.1 | in order to develop better hips that are tailored to the individual. |
| 1:23.6 | But first, Sir Elton John, or to be precise, his appendix. |
| 1:28.1 | Sir Elton has postponed the rest of his European tour because he has appendicitis. |
| 1:32.7 | Not unusual in itself. |
| 1:34.4 | At least one in 15 people in the UK will develop the condition by the time that the singer's age, 66. |
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