Preventing breast cancer, Iodine deficiency, Antibiotics for back pain
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the health issues that perplex us.
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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. |
| 0:23.1 | And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:27.6 | You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. |
| 0:31.0 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.1 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:37.7 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello and welcome to a new series of Inside Health, |
| 0:43.1 | the program that takes a quizzical, evidence-based look at the real stories behind the headlines, |
| 0:48.8 | providing clarity where there's confusion. |
| 0:51.3 | And a couple of stories caught our eye while we were off air, one over-egged. |
| 0:55.9 | The stuff of Nobel Prizes, half a million sufferers of back pain, could be cured with antibiotics. |
| 1:03.5 | And another that might have a little more to it. |
| 1:06.3 | Iodine deficiency may lower UK children's IQ. |
| 1:10.7 | We'll be taking a closer look at iodine in pregnancy |
| 1:13.4 | and asking if antibiotics really do have a role in back pain later on. |
| 1:18.0 | But first, something that's all over this week's headlines, |
| 1:20.5 | the latest guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, |
| 1:24.1 | NICE, on protecting women from breast cancer. |
| 1:27.2 | For the first time, NICE is advocating that preventative medicines, |
| 1:31.7 | in this case, the estrogen blockers tamoxifen and raloxifen, |
| 1:35.3 | be offered to women at higher than average risk, |
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