Parkinson's Disease, Breast cancer screening, Slimming pills, Sunscreens, Teeth
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Following Billy Connolly's announcement that he has signs of Parkinson's Disease, Inside Health reports from the World Congress of Neurology in Vienna where early diagnosis is top of the agenda.
Suncreams and Cancer. After a long hot summer an evidence based look at whether sunscreens really protect against the lethal forms of skin cancer - melanoma.
And slimming pills - why have two regulatory bodies on different sides of the Atlantic made different decisions about two diet drugs?
As a new NHS information leaflet 'Helping You Decide' is given to women invited for breast screening, Dr Margaret McCartney - who has criticised previous versions - gives her verdict.
And a definitive guide to the only true dental emergency - what to do if you or your child knocks out a front tooth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
| 0:09.9 | Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen, |
| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter, and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it. Over the next six weeks, we'll be looking at lots of different |
| 0:37.8 | issues, ranging from the latest thinking on the causes of eating disorders to the best way to treat |
| 0:42.8 | one of the most disabling types of pain, trigeminal neuralgia. But coming up today, sunscreens and cancer. |
| 0:50.4 | After one of the best summers for decades, our resident skeptic, Dr Margaret McCartney, |
| 0:55.0 | questions the perceived benefits of wearing sunscreen. |
| 0:57.9 | Does it really protect against lethal skin cancers? |
| 1:01.0 | Slimming drugs, an effective pill to treat obesity, |
| 1:04.0 | has become the pharmaceutical industry's holy grail, |
| 1:07.0 | but the quest to find one has been littered with failures. |
| 1:10.3 | The sooner we stop looking for drugs to make you lose weight, the better. |
| 1:15.6 | Because I think they are just alchemy, |
| 1:18.0 | and we're all going to look foolish in a few decades' time, |
| 1:22.0 | imagining that we were going to find the answer to it all through a tablet. |
| 1:26.0 | So why has the American Food and Drug Administration just approved two new slimming pills, |
| 1:32.0 | particularly when its European equivalent, has rejected them? |
| 1:35.5 | And the National Breast Cancer Screening Programme, we know it saves lives, but at what cost? |
| 1:40.8 | We examine the latest information given to women on the pros and cons of screening, |
| 1:45.8 | amid concerns that it still doesn't help them make a fully informed decision as to whether to take part. |
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