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Inside Health

Off-patent Drugs Bill, Pre-diabetes, Sepsis, All-cause mortality

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Off-Patent Drugs Bill aims to prevent people missing out on life-saving treatments, but doctors can already prescribe drugs off-licence so why do we need a new law? Pre-diabetes - a new label that could apply to as many as 1 in 3 British adults, but is it a useful to know this? The importance of diagnosing sepsis early and how to recognise the key signs. Plus Dr Margaret McCartney and Dr Carl Heneghan explain the meaning of the phrase 'all cause mortality'. Presented by Dr Mark Porter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

0:05.4

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0:10.6

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0:16.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:29.4

Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it.

0:33.4

Coming up today, pre-diabetes, a new label that could be applied to as many as one in three British adults.

0:40.3

But how valid is it?

0:42.3

One of the problems with pre-diabetes is that there are three doors in.

0:46.3

There aren't actually any doors out.

0:48.3

There is no official way I've discovered of being undiagnosed with pre-diabetes.

0:52.3

Now, if all three measures correlated, 100%, there would be no problem.

0:58.2

But in fact, they overlap very weakly.

1:00.6

And sepsis.

1:01.8

One campaigning charity believes over 12,000 lives could be saved every year in the UK

1:06.8

through earlier diagnosis and better management of a condition

1:10.5

which can rapidly lead to shock,

1:13.1

multiple organ failure and death.

1:15.6

It was a junior anaesthetist that was walking past to start his shift.

1:19.3

Everything's a bit hazy for me at this point, but my mum said he even still had his rucksack on

1:23.7

and was asked for his opinion.

1:25.8

It was that man that turned out later to save my life.

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