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Inside Health

Measles, Prostate, Juvenile arthritis, Scruffy docs, Xenon lung scanner

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Prostate cancer and Sir Michael Parkinson's comments this week that the test 'is if you can pee against the wall from 2 foot' - Inside Health brings you the verdict. And stiff painful joints are usually associated with getting old, but imagine being told your toddler has arthritis - Mark Porter investigates. And why the change in doctors' dress code may be doing more for Private Medicine than infection control.

Transcript

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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 Mosniak 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.

0:37.8

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.1

Coming up in today's program, Scruffy Doctors,

0:42.0

why the latest dress code for hospital medics, no ties, jackets or white coats

0:46.4

and bear below the elbows may have done more for private practice

0:50.3

than the fight against infections like MRSA.

0:54.1

Arthritis and children.

0:55.5

Stiff painful joints are often associated with getting old,

0:58.4

but arthritis can strike at any age.

1:00.8

And unless it's picked up promptly and treated aggressively,

1:03.5

the resulting damage can leave a lasting legacy.

1:06.1

We were in the clinic and saw children older than Matthew

1:10.8

and it hit us.

1:13.5

Lots of the children were facing hip replacements, were in wheelchairs and thought,

1:20.5

oh my goodness, this is what we face.

1:23.8

We'll find out what happened to Matthew later on, as well as Zenon,

1:27.4

how researchers are harnessing the power of a noble gas to assess the state of our lungs.

1:32.9

But first, measles and a challenge from a listener.

1:36.3

The outbreak in Wales that prompted a national MMR catch-up programme was declared over last week, after 1219 cases, nearly 100 hospital admissions and a death.

1:47.7

Our listener wants to know how many of those affected had been vaccinated with the MMR jab

1:51.8

amid internet rumours that the vaccine is not half as good as the authorities are making it out to be.

1:57.5

Inside Health, Margaret McCartney has been investigating.

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