Statins Over the Counter, Amyloidosis, Gene Silencing
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There are plans to make high dose statins available over-the-counter without a prescription to improve uptake. Currently around two thirds of people likely to benefit most don't take them, but will these plans make a difference? Amyloidosis is a debilitating rare disease that is often missed: Pam tells her amazing story of recovery and Mark meets the specialists helping her. And news about new gene silencing treatments that could transform the outlook for people with other rare conditions too.
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| 0:38.0 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:40.6 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:41.6 | I've met some stoic people making this programme, |
| 0:44.7 | but none more so than this. |
| 0:46.8 | I had a cardiac arrest at work. |
| 0:48.6 | Collapsed in a very empty area, |
| 0:51.6 | and then this amazing guy walked in the door, |
| 0:53.8 | and he said, well life I was in a wheelchair |
| 0:55.4 | I couldn't get out of the house you've gone from being in a wheelchair to being back at work |
| 1:00.2 | within six months or so I know it's incredible isn't it and that's the treatment more on that disease |
| 1:05.0 | amyloidosis that affected pam's heart and the therapies that are now available coming up later. And one of the newest |
| 1:12.2 | treatments, gene silencing, could transform the outlook for people with other rare conditions |
| 1:17.4 | too. Lots and lots, like hundreds, potentially thousands of rare genetic diseases are caused by |
| 1:22.6 | faulty genes. So if you can interrupt those messages coming out, then, presto, you can stop, in theory, those diseases. |
| 1:29.8 | So these will be loads of things that you haven't heard of before. |
| 1:33.3 | But first, the treatment that's been around for decades, statins, |
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