Coughs, vocal cord dysfunction and athletes, taste and smell, waiting room toys
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter debates whether the recent lung cancer awareness campaign on TV, radio and the internet, hits the spot or is scaremongering. He discovers new research suggesting some people with exercise induced asthma are being given the wrong diagnosis and treatment. And GP Margaret McCartney investigates rumours this week that children's toys are to be thrown out of the doctors surgery in the on going battle against infection.
Producer: Erika Wright.
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| 0:41.2 | Hello and welcome to Inside Health in today's program as we approach the 2012 Olympics. |
| 0:47.4 | I'll be finding out how breathing exercises are helping some top athletes go for gold, |
| 0:52.5 | and they're not the only ones who might benefit. |
| 0:54.6 | Asthma is very common in the UK, up to 5 million people have asthma, so we often assume that |
| 0:59.1 | if a young person says they're breathless on exertion, but it must be asthma, and it's not the right |
| 1:04.0 | diagnosis for them. G.P., Margaret McCartney, investigates rumours that toys in the waiting |
| 1:09.0 | room are the latest victims in the ongoing battle against healthcare-associated infections. |
| 1:14.5 | Could magazines be next? |
| 1:16.2 | And why apples taste like onions, if you can't smell properly? |
| 1:20.0 | I tracked down one of the UK's leading experts on taste to answer a listener's query. |
| 1:25.2 | But first... |
| 1:26.4 | If you've had a... |
| 1:27.1 | For over three weeks, you should go and see your doctor. A can be a sign of lung cancer. |
| 1:37.6 | One of a number of different lung cancer awareness ads put out by the Department of Health on TV, |
| 1:42.1 | radio and internet over the last couple of months. |
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