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Unproven IVF add-ons; Running injuries; DNA analysis on the NHS

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Warnings that expensive, unproven 'add-ons' are being offered by IVF clinics ; Keen jogger Margaret McCartney asks whether rest helps running problems such as stitch, shin splints and plantar fasciitis. Plus DNA testing on the NHS to anyone prepared to pay for it with the results contributing to research. But what exactly is the aim of such testing and are there hidden implications?

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

0:05.4

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0:16.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:30.5

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0:34.5

Hello, coming up in the next half hour, DNA analysis on the NHS. I'll be exploring the

0:40.2

implications of the surprise announcement that it's going to offer gene sequencing to anyone

0:45.0

prepared to pay for it. And joggers maladies, if they're playing havoc with your New Year's

0:50.2

resolution to get fit, then our resident athlete, Margaret McCartney, feels your pain. First when I started running, I would get stitches all the time that's so sore. And then I developed shin splint, you know, pain in the front of your shins after running like one or two kilometers. And now I've got planter fasciitis, so there's pain in my heel. And the problem is I keep getting this advice to stop running. You look and running magazines and things that says,

1:12.2

oh, you must rest.

1:13.4

And what I would like to know is what is the actual evidence for this?

1:16.0

What is the evidence for rest making these kind of injuries better?

1:19.6

Questions, questions.

1:20.7

But first, in vitro fertilisation,

1:23.2

and a warning from the human fertilisation and embryology authority

1:26.7

that fertility clinics

1:28.3

are promoting expensive, unproven add-ons to women or couples who might be better sticking

1:33.8

with the cheaper standard IVF package.

1:36.7

And the HFEA's announcement has come not a moment too soon for Carl Hennigan, Professor of

1:41.7

Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Oxford, who first raised

1:45.3

the issue nearly two years ago. Well, IVF's been around for quite some time, and standard IDVF, we used

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