E-cigarettes, Asherman's syndrome, Rugby

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The UK's first licensed e-cig, owned by a tobacco company, is now classed as a medicine paving the way for it to be prescribed on the NHS to help people quit. Robert West, Professor of Psychology at University College London and one of the world's leading experts on smoking cessation, and GP Margaret McCartney debate the issues.

Asherman's Syndrome, a little known complication of surgery that is often missed but can cause infertility. Obstetrician Virginia Beckett explains how Asherman's Syndrome occurs and how it is treated.

Rugby is growing in popularity, particularly among children, with 1.2 million of them now playing at schools and clubs in England alone. But at what cost? Rugby is rough and injuries are more common than most parents think.

After her son and other young people were hurt repeatedly on the rugby field, Allyson Pollock, Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary, University of London, explored the incidence of injuries. From her research she is now recommending an end to the contact element of rugby in young people. Rugby Football Union's community medical director Dr Mike England responds.

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0:44.8	Coming up today, Rugby, a parent having the wool pulled over their eyes when it comes to the risks of serious injury.
0:56.0	If you were to send your children up into the hills on a school trip and they came back with the same number of fractures and head injuries and concussions, there would be a major inquiry every single week. So the question is, why are we not having a major inquiry every single
1:01.9	week into the injuries that are taking place on the rugby pitches? And Asherman's syndrome,
1:07.1	a little known, often missed complication of miscarriage in gynecological surgery that can
1:12.5	leave women infertile. But we start with the licensing of the UK's first electronic cigarette.
1:19.5	The approval by the medicine and healthcare products regulatory agency, the MHRA, means British-American
1:26.3	tobacco's E-Voke-E-Sig is now classed as a medicine,
1:30.8	paving the way for its prescription on the NHS to help smokers quit.
1:35.2	But is it a step forward in the ongoing battle against tobacco or a step back?
1:40.8	I hit the streets in London to gauge opinion among vapors.
1:44.8	I just started vaping, really, because it's quite pleasant. He still feels like smoking.
1:49.1	And do you still smoke or do you just... I don't smoke at all now.
1:52.1	If your ESIG was prescribable on the NHS, you could get it from your doctor. Would you go
1:56.0	to your doctor to get it? Probably not. I get it online. It's all cheap than a prescription anyway. Well, I did smoke
2:03.1	heavily for about 25 years, so I think it was time to give it up. But it doesn't really feel
2:08.8	like I've given up cigarettes at all. Vaping was a way of smoking while not smoking. And what's
2:14.1	the plan with the vaping now? To carry on in the medium term? Or are you hoping to give that up to?
2:19.1	No, I quite like vaping.
2:21.1	If your ESIG was prescribable on the NHS, would you have gone to your doctor to get it?
2:28.2	Probably not. When I did give up smoking in the past, I did it by myself.
2:32.5	How do you feel about the UK's first licensed licensed ESIG actually being made by a tobacco manufacturer,
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