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Inside Health

Zantac alert, Newborn brain injury, OTC guide, Surgery for reflux

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Zantac alert over concerns that the branded reflux treatment is contaminated with a carcinogenic impurity, so what are the risks? And a new device helping to identify Newborn brain injury earlier. An Inside Health Guide to Over the Counter choices and evidence for those that work best - this week Warts and Veruccas; Plus surgery for reflux as an alternative to pills.

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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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0:34.3

Hello, coming up today, Self-Help.

0:36.6

NHS England has limited the prescribing for a range of

0:40.1

conditions for which over-the-counter remedies are available. But which treatments that you can

0:45.0

buy work best? We start our own insider's guide with a look at stubborn adversaries, warts and

0:51.7

varucas. Newborn brain injury, I visit a hospital that's developed a new way

0:56.9

of monitoring babies whose brains have been starved of oxygen or blood, and which could help improve

1:02.9

recovery. Surgery for reflux. Could an operation be an alternative to a lifetime of taking

1:09.9

anti-acid pills.

1:11.5

But first we start with more heartburn.

1:14.1

A lot of you have been in contact about a recent recall by GlaxoSmithKline

1:18.2

of the Zantak-branded anti-acid treatment, Renitadine,

1:22.0

amid concerns that it's contaminated with a carcinogenic impurity called NDMA.

1:27.8

Inside Health, Margaret McCartney's been following developments and is in our Glasgow studio.

1:32.5

Well, it's all very confusing.

1:34.8

In it is very difficult as well.

1:36.6

So the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority, who regulate all the medicines in the UK,

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