HIV and MS; Black skin and cancer; Iron overload; Losing your sense of smell
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter finds out about the latest research investigating why people with HIV very rarely get multiple sclerosis. What does it mean for the cause of MS and possible future treatments? Also in the programme how much is black skin at reduced risk of skin cancer from exposure to the sun? Why iron overload can often go undiagnosed and the training for the nose that can help recover a lost sense of smell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Wozniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:37.7 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:39.1 | What do Vikings, bloodletting and iron fists have in common? |
| 0:43.8 | Don't worry if nothing springs to mind. |
| 0:45.7 | The medical condition linking them all tends to catch out most doctors too. |
| 0:50.1 | The mean delay to diagnosis from the beginning of potentially related symptoms, |
| 0:55.8 | the condition is seven, eight years. |
| 0:58.3 | And that's a problem and very irritating, very uncomfortable clearly for patients. |
| 1:04.9 | All will be revealed later in the program, |
| 1:07.9 | along with the answer to a listener's question about the impact of sunlight on black skin. |
| 1:13.5 | Do people of African Caribbean descent need to use sunscreen? |
| 1:17.5 | And losing your sense of smell, reporter Pamela Rutherford visits a specialist clinic |
| 1:22.4 | to learn more about physiotherapy for the nose. |
| 1:26.4 | But first, multiple sclerosis, a new research that could lead to the first ever treatment |
| 1:31.7 | aimed at the cause of MS, treatment based on antiviral therapy currently used in HIV-AIDS. |
| 1:39.1 | Neurologist Professor Julian Gold from the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney led the study. |
| 1:44.0 | The story starts about four years ago when I realised that after almost 30 years of looking after |
| 1:51.9 | patients with HIV and AIDS, I'd never seen anybody with multiple sclerosis. |
| 1:58.1 | And we went back through our medical records and we found one patient, a young man who was |
| 2:04.6 | diagnosed with multiple sclerosis well over 15 years ago, who a year or so after he was diagnosed |
| 2:12.6 | with MS, he became infected with HIV. We started him on common HIV drugs and really, to our |
| 2:23.1 | surprise, his MS symptoms stopped. And in fact, over the last 13 or 14 years, he's had no |
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