Hepatitis B vaccine, Sheds, Obesity Paradox, Taking part in clinical trials
Inside Health
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4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Hepatitis B vaccine has been added to the childhood national programme joining the 5 vaccines already given to all young babies at 8, 12 and 16 weeks. Andrew Pollard, Professor of Paediatric Infection & Immunity at the University of Oxford, and Chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, explains why.
Margaret McCartney and Mark Porter visit men in north London looking for the physical and mental benefits of community sheds.
The obesity paradox - can being overweight sometimes be beneficial? Gavin Murphy, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Leicester and Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow, debate the latest research suggesting that obese people are more likely to survive heart surgery than their slimmer peers.
Are clinical trials good for you? We examine the evidence behind conventional wisdom that people taking part in research tend to fare better - whatever their illness.
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| 0:38.8 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:40.4 | Coming up today, are clinical trials good for you? |
| 0:43.8 | We examine the evidence behind conventional wisdom |
| 0:46.3 | that people taking part in research tend to fare better, |
| 0:50.3 | whatever, their illness. |
| 0:52.2 | The obesity paradox can being overweight sometimes be good for you. |
| 0:57.4 | We debate the latest research suggesting that obese people are more likely to survive heart |
| 1:01.9 | surgery than their slimmer peers. And Margaret McCartney and I visit some men in a shed, |
| 1:08.3 | albeit a rather special one. You know, you can have all these drugs and, you know, chemo and things like that. |
| 1:16.3 | But the lads used to come down and visit me in the hospital. |
| 1:19.6 | The lads in the shed? |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah. It's therapy in itself, if you know what I mean. |
| 1:24.2 | More from the Camden Town shed later. |
| 1:27.2 | But first, vaccines. And a new jab for the UK Child Town Shed later. But first, vaccines. |
| 1:29.1 | And a new jab for the UK Childhood Immunisation Programme. |
| 1:32.8 | As of this autumn, Hepatitis B will join the five vaccines |
| 1:36.9 | already given to all young babies at 8, 12 and 16 weeks, |
| 1:41.4 | a combination that protects against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, |
| 1:46.1 | and homophilus influenza or hib. Adding hepatitis B was first mooted over 20 years ago in the UK's |
| 1:52.5 | one of the last countries in Europe to include it. Andrew Pollard is Professor of Pediatric |
| 1:57.5 | Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford and chair of the Joint Committee |
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