Coronavirus; Probiotics and Babies' gut health; Pill Organisers; Haemophilia therapy
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
James Gallagher, BBC health and science correspondent, and Dr Margaret McCartney talk about the new coronavirus and how GPs have been advised to manage a patient at risk. He meets listeners Rich and Lucy who have asked about probiotics and gut health in early life after one of their twins had a vaginal delivery while the other a C-section. They want to know whether the different types of birth might impact on the good bacteria passed from mother to child. What is the evidence for the potential impact on long term health and can probiotics help? Dr Trevor Lawley at the Sanger Centre and Dr Lindsay Hall of the Quadram Institute provide the answers. Debi Bhattacharya of the University of East Anglia and James discuss pill organisers and whether arranging medicines into one single packet is always a good idea. And Prof John Pasi explains the results of trials on a 'Holy Grail' treatment for Haemophilia A and Shaun, who took part in the trial at Guy's and St Thomas in London, reveals how it has changed his life.
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| 0:34.4 | Hello, keen listeners may have noticed things are a bit different on the program at the moment. |
| 0:40.1 | Mark Porter has hung up the inside health microphone to focus on the far more important job of |
| 0:45.1 | looking after his patients full time. Last week, our resident skeptic GP Margaret McCartney |
| 0:50.4 | was exploring the challenges of rural medicine. She's here for the rest of the series |
| 0:55.1 | in her usual role unpicking the evidence. And now I'm helping out for a couple of weeks. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm James Galaher, the BBC's Health and Science correspondent, and I've climbed the spiral |
| 1:04.8 | stairs out of the newsroom and into the Inside Health studio. It won't come as a surprise to you |
| 1:10.1 | that my life has been dominated by the coronavirus in |
| 1:13.1 | China recently. |
| 1:14.4 | My one-year-old son even made his Radio 4 debut while I was on air in my PJs early Saturday morning. |
| 1:19.6 | So SARS, if you remember that from just after the turn of the millennium, that caused 8,000 cases, killed 800 pieces. |
| 1:27.1 | People, and apologies for my son, I think he doesn't have this coronavirus. |
| 1:32.2 | I'll be honest, I felt like I've not been off duty since this story started, and it's so fast-moving. |
| 1:38.0 | So much we don't know. |
| 1:39.7 | First, the Chinese authorities say it's not spreading between people. |
| 1:43.0 | Now they say it can, and even before |
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