Bats and Rabies; Hip Dysplasia in babies; Online health tips; Clinical Law
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What is the risk of catching rabies from bats in the UK? We answer this question prompted by a case at Mark Porter's surgery last week when a bat flew straight into a person in broad daylight. Hip dysplasia in babies is a condition where the ball and socket of the joint don't form properly in early life. Every baby is examined as part of the National Screening Programme but new research suggests hundreds are being missed. Plus tips from Margaret McCartney and Carl Heneghan on finding reliable health information online. And what is clinical law?
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| 0:38.4 | Hello, coming up in the next half hour, hip dysplasia, |
| 0:42.0 | a new research revealing that hundreds of babies in the UK are being missed by the national screening programme. |
| 0:48.2 | And when their hip problems are eventually picked up, they require much more aggressive treatment. |
| 0:53.7 | I guess she's a bit like a frog. |
| 0:55.0 | Her legs quite wide apart with what they call a broomstick in between to kind of help |
| 0:59.4 | support it. |
| 1:00.7 | She's got no movement from just above a belly button, the cast starts, and then it's all the |
| 1:05.1 | way down to her ankles. |
| 1:06.8 | Looks quite a difficult thing to manage. |
| 1:08.6 | Absolutely. Normal life has been completely turned upside down. Always that part that you can't quite turn off in your head that you just think, oh, when she was born, she should this picked a line, yeah, absolutely. Would you like to get you out? Would you like to sit on my lap? More about Mia later. Clinical law. No, until recently, I'd never heard of the speciality either. |
| 1:28.1 | And until I met a pediatric cancer surgeon who's also a lawyer and who uses his combined |
| 1:34.3 | expertise to help both patients and colleagues. He shares some examples of the dilemmas he's |
| 1:40.0 | tackled. And our insider's guide to health on the Internet continues with a look at sites to |
| 1:45.0 | visit for reliable information about medicines and their side effects. But first, rabies, or to be |
| 1:51.7 | precise, a rabies-like virus found in some bats in the UK. It appeared on the inside health |
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