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Inside Health

Stem cells, Functional disorders, Epilepsy, Stoptober, Whiplash

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As the Nobel Prize for Medicine announced this week recognises stem cell research, Dr Mark Porter asks if it's already making a difference to patients.

And imagine waking up with numbness in your face, by the end of the day with paralysis in your leg, all tests are normal and there's no apparent cause - Margaret McCartney reports from Edinburgh on a burgeoning field of medicine - functional disorders.

Plus an Inside Health listener who has been taking epilepsy treatment for 35 years asks when is it safe to stop taking her medication? And do 'stop-smoking' campaigns really work? Kamran Abbasi looks at the evidence.

Transcript

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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. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Ria Lina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:37.7

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.0

Hello and welcome to Inside Health in today's program, the Stoptober Stop Smoking campaign.

0:44.7

The first mass quit attempt ever tried in the UK is now in its second week.

0:49.5

But is it any more likely to encourage smokers to quit than past campaigns?

0:53.7

Inside Health, the resident

0:54.6

sceptic, Dr Cameron Abassi, thinks it might. Medically unexplained symptoms, what doctors can

1:00.9

do to help people with ailments that defy medical science. By dinner time, my whole face had drooped,

1:08.2

called an ambulance and they took one look and said, you know, you've had a stroke,

1:12.5

we're taking you into the hospital.

1:14.4

But it turned out not to be a stroke, didn't it?

1:16.3

That's right.

1:17.1

Margaret McCartney reports, and epilepsy, why treatment with anti-convulsant drugs needn't be lifelong.

1:24.0

But first, Nobel Prizes and stem cells.

1:26.7

It's been announced this week that Cambridge biologists, Sir John Gurdon,

1:30.1

will share this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine with a Japanese researcher

1:33.3

for showing that mature, specialised cells can be reprogrammed

1:36.8

to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body.

1:41.9

But what are the implications for the rest of us?

1:44.0

What have the other stem cell researchers managed to build on Gerdon's foundations?

1:48.0

Anthony Hollander is Professor of Tissue Engineering at the University of Bristol.

1:52.0

Well, building on the groundbreaking work of John Gordon, of Professor Yamanaka and others,

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