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Inside Health

Paracetamol, Prostate and HIFU, Uncertainty - Oxygen and Heart Attacks

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Evidence suggests Paracetamol is neither as effective or safe as previously thought for chronic pain; Prostate cancer and new targeted treatments with fewer side effects plus feedback following last week's special edition; And is giving oxygen in heart attacks a help or hindrance? Margaret McCartney and Carl Heneghan debate the first in a new mini-series investigating uncertainty in medicine.

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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

The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's

0:10.6

Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials

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.

0:32.1

I hope you enjoy it.

0:33.3

Coming up today, two stalwarts of the medical world go under the inside health microscope,

0:38.6

paracetamol, once the first-line painkiller for most common ailments. Its role recently has been questioned.

0:45.8

We look at the evidence behind its fall from grace and oxygen, widely used in all sorts of medical

0:51.9

emergencies, but does it help or does it hinder?

0:55.6

Yeah, that airway, when people having a heart attack, I was drummed into as a medical student, you give them oxygen.

1:00.9

That sort of makes sense. The problem is when you look at the data on oxygen, you can be making the situation worse.

1:06.4

And that goes counterintuitive to everything that I learned as a medical student.

1:09.9

Professor Carl Hennigan and Dr Margaret McCartney question its use in people who've had heart

1:14.2

attacks as part of a new series on uncertainty.

1:17.7

And after last week's special on prostate cancer, we'll be continuing the theme with a report

1:22.4

on two new techniques for treating the disease and putting some of your feedback to one

1:27.1

of the UK's leading

1:28.1

neurologists. But first, an appeal for your help with a debate that we're planning on the state

1:33.8

of the NHS. The last few weeks have seen the service creaking under unprecedented demand,

1:39.4

and there's likely to be worse to come. Something needs to give. Is it simply a matter of more resources?

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