Inside Health

BBC Radio 4

Series that demystifies health issues, separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice.

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381 episodes
Updated July 28

Episodes381

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Nov 5, 2024 · 27 min
What next for Alzheimer's treatment?
The first drugs to slow Alzheimer's progression won't be offered on the NHS. What's next?
Oct 29, 2024 · 28 min
Focus on the breath
Could adjusting your breathing improve your health?
Oct 22, 2024 · 28 min
How does embarrassment affect your health?
And what can doctors and the NHS do to help alleviate the problem.
Oct 16, 2024 · 28 min
Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases
How gene analysis is impacting treatment and care for children with rare genetic disorders
Aug 27, 2024 · 28 min
Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks
We meet a patient on a revolutionary cancer vaccine trial, plus planning for cyber attacks
Aug 20, 2024 · 28 min
Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
Mpox is classed a public health emergency, statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
Aug 13, 2024 · 27 min
What should we do about vaping?
Is vaping a tool to quit smoking or a gateway to starting? And why verrucas won't budge.
Aug 6, 2024 · 28 min
Can diet and exercise ever replace statins?
Plus, sunburn remedies and how snus might enhance sporting performance
Jul 30, 2024 · 27 min
How can we age well?
James and the Hay Festival audience try to conquer ageing, guided by a panel of experts.
Jul 23, 2024 · 27 min
Is watching sport good for you?
James monitors the physical ups and downs of watching the Euros final in an experiment.
May 7, 2024 · 27 min
What does alcohol do to the body and brain?
James visits the pub to find out what happens when he drinks two pints of lager.
Apr 30, 2024 · 27 min
Are more young people getting cancer?
Following the Princess of Wales’s diagnosis, we look at disease rates in people under 50.
Apr 23, 2024 · 27 min
Can insomnia be fixed?
We're joined by a panel of experts to answer your questions on insomnia.
Apr 16, 2024 · 27 min
We go on a tick hunt
James goes looking for ticks and asks how worried should we be about them.
Apr 9, 2024 · 27 min
Is intermittent fasting good for you?
From weight loss to prolonging life, James Gallagher investigates trending fast diets
Apr 2, 2024 · 27 min
Can noise harm our health?
We head into the lab to find out how unwanted sound can affect the body and brain.
Feb 13, 2024 · 28 min
Coffee, nap, rave, repeat...
We discuss how much caffeine is too much, whether you need a nap and day-time raving.
Feb 6, 2024 · 28 min
Why recovering from long Covid is a lot like training for the Olympics
We visit the first long Covid clinic to find out what we've learnt about the condition.
Jan 30, 2024 · 28 min
A guide to the perimenopause
How to prepare for the perimenopause and why it’s not all bad.
Jan 23, 2024 · 28 min
Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us?
We meet the medics treating people in unusual places, and we talk all things fermented.