Avastin, Peanut Allergy, Bowel Bacteria and Faecal Transplants
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mark Porter visits a very smelly laboratory to find out how your gut bacteria could be influencing your weight - and more besides.
Doctors have written to the authorities asking for permission to use the drug Avastin instead of the more expensive alternative, Lucentis, to treat patients with age related macular degeneration (AMD) - the commonest cause of blindness in older people. Inside Health investigates.
And new research into peanut allergy, turning conventional wisdom on its head, that every parent should know.
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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, |
| 0:21.9 | it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, |
| 0:27.4 | listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:32.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.2 | Coming up in today's program, |
| 0:34.9 | I visit the Smelliest Lab in Britain |
| 0:37.2 | to discover how the bacteria |
| 0:38.8 | in your bowel could be influencing your weight and a lot more besides. |
| 0:44.2 | And you research into peanut allergies that's turning conventional wisdom on its head. |
| 0:49.2 | It's very rare in a career as a doctor. |
| 0:53.0 | You see a study where it's actually obvious what the implications |
| 0:56.4 | are. And actually, it's also very rare to be involved in a study that you can see completely |
| 1:02.1 | changing what professionals recommend, what families do. And if you're a new parent or planning |
| 1:07.8 | on becoming one soon, then you really should listen to that interview coming up later. But first, a treatment for a common eye problem that's currently |
| 1:15.7 | costing the NHS an extra £100 million a year more than it needs to. And that's just in |
| 1:22.1 | England. Leaders from 120 clinical commissioning groups have written to the authorities asking for permission |
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