Shingles vaccine; Energy drinks; Liver function tests; Anorexia
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Margaret McCartney reports on confusion around the new Shingles Vaccine - including how old you have to be to qualify and why there's a lack of supply in some GP surgeries.
Why readymade drinks combining caffeine and alcohol have been banned in America.
Are the tests GP's use to screen for liver damage falsely reassuring?
And a leading authority dispels myths surrounding the causes of anorexia.
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| 0:37.7 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, coming up in today's program, wide-awake drunks. |
| 0:43.5 | We look at the hazards of mixing alcohol with energy drinks like Red Bull, Monster and Full Throttle. |
| 0:49.8 | Eating disorders, we talk to a leading authority about the latest thinking on anorexia nervosa. |
| 0:55.0 | For so long parents have been blamed for bringing on anorexia in their children. There is no |
| 1:00.7 | evidence whatsoever that parents can create anorexia nervosa. That evidence has never been |
| 1:07.0 | shown. And testing your liver, why the standard blood tests used to screen for liver damage |
| 1:12.3 | are not a reliable indicator of whether you've been drinking too much. But first, the new |
| 1:17.8 | shingles vaccine, which was introduced into the routine immunisation program last month. At least, |
| 1:23.4 | it was supposed to be. Judging by the emails and tweets we've had from Inside Health listeners, |
| 1:28.0 | it's not got off to the best start. Not least because the criteria for eligibility are rather |
| 1:33.2 | confusing. And when you do work out if you're eligible, there's a good chance your practice |
| 1:37.9 | won't have enough jabs to go round. Dr Margaret McCartney's in our Glasgow studio. Margaret, |
| 1:43.0 | why is it so confusing? |
| 1:44.8 | There are problems. It doesn't work very well in people aged over 80, so it's not aimed at them because it doesn't work very well. |
| 1:51.7 | And there isn't enough vaccine to go around for everyone aged over 70 or between 70 and 79 just now. |
| 1:57.9 | And this is the confusing bit. And this is what we've had all the emails about |
| 2:01.0 | because people don't understand why it's being offered in such a strange way. Can you explain |
| 2:05.4 | how it's being offered at the moment? Okay. So it's being offered in a way that in a decade's time, |
| 2:10.3 | everyone between 70 and 80 will have been vaccinated. Because there isn't enough vaccine to go |
| 2:15.5 | round, it's being offered in a way that only certain parts of that age group are getting it in the first round. |
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