Meningitis ACWY vaccine, Testosterone for women, Allotments on prescription, Heart failure and iron
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Meningitis ACWY Vaccine was introduced last year to protect teenagers from year 9 in school to those starting university or college. But there seems to be confusion about how to get the jab and many parents remain unaware of the threat posed by Meningitis W. Inside Health's resident GP, Dr Margaret McCartney takes a closer look at headlines reporting that women should be given testosterone for low sex drive. Plus, half of all people with heart failure also have iron deficiency so might iron be a clue to a new type of treatment? And Mark Porter visits his local patch in Gloucestershire where doctors are offering allotments on prescription.
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| 0:39.8 | Coming up today, testosterone and female sex drive. Dr Margaret McCartney takes a closer look at recent headlines, |
| 0:47.4 | suggesting the NHS is failing women who've lost their libido. Iron and hearts. Could boosting levels help the million or so people |
| 0:56.1 | in the UK struggling with fatigue and breathlessness caused by heart failure? And allotments on |
| 1:02.5 | prescription. Yes, you heard me right. We head to Gloucestershire to discover how gardening has |
| 1:07.8 | become the latest addition to the local GP's formulary. |
| 1:11.7 | We had this great idea that somehow you could use gardening to help people |
| 1:15.6 | get better. And also some people don't feel confident about doing gardening, |
| 1:20.1 | particularly if they've had a major illness, so they're close to the hospital. |
| 1:22.8 | One great thing about allotments is people have a cup of tea together. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm not much of a gardener, to be honest, Simon, but I'll do my best. |
| 1:29.1 | More from me and my spade later. |
| 1:32.5 | But first, meningitis and a new jab to protect against meningitis W. |
| 1:38.0 | It was added to the National Immunisation Programme last year |
| 1:41.0 | and is aimed principally at teenagers heading to college or university. |
| 1:45.6 | The job of administering the vaccine has been divided between schools and GPs, |
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