Inside Health Podcast
Series that demystifies health issues, separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice.
Episodes to download
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Living in a Bacterial World
Tue 9 Jan 2024
Exploring our microbial metropolis - and is being clean important for good health?
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How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?
Tue 24 Oct 2023
As cold and flu season nears, James finds out what the remedies in his cabinet do to help.
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What's stopping us from exercising in older age?
Tue 17 Oct 2023
An 80-year-old athlete and a team of sports scientists help explain what can hold us back.
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Inside a sexual assault referral centre
Tue 10 Oct 2023
James Gallagher meets the people who help victims of sexual assault.
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Migraines and Headaches
Tue 3 Oct 2023
As we enter a new era of migraine treatments, we answer your head pain questions.
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When does sitting become bad for health?
Tue 26 Sep 2023
James Gallagher visits the lab to explore how much sitting is too much.
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Why is syphilis making a comeback?
Tue 19 Sep 2023
Syphilis is at its highest rate since 1948. So why aren't we talking more about it?
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On the trail of a new street drug
Tue 15 Aug 2023
James Gallagher finds out what happens when a new drug hits the UK鈥檚 streets.
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What difference could new Alzheimer鈥檚 disease drugs make?
Tue 8 Aug 2023
Translating clinical trial breakthroughs into real life impacts for Alzheimer鈥檚 sufferers.
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Could weight-loss drugs treat addiction?
Tue 1 Aug 2023
Could weight-loss drugs also have potential to tackle serious addiction?
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What happened to mpox?
Tue 25 Jul 2023
With the global health emergency declared over, is mpox 鈥榙one鈥�?
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How fast should you eat your food?
Tue 18 Jul 2023
Slowing down your eating speed might impact your health
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Did Covid turn us into teeth grinders?
Tue 21 Mar 2023
James Gallagher finds out if we've become a nation of pandemic teeth grinders.
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Parkinson's and Ballet
Tue 14 Mar 2023
How exercise from ballet to cycling may help people living with Parkinson's disease.
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What soaring food prices are doing to our health
Tue 7 Feb 2023
The cost of everything is soaring, but what toll is that taking on our health?
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Women and heart attacks
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Women are dying of heart attacks because they're not getting the right treatment.
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Is a fungal pandemic possible?
Tue 24 Jan 2023
From deadly fungal meningitis to a hospital super bug, is a fungal pandemic possible?
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Maggot therapy for difficult wounds
Tue 17 Jan 2023
The maggots bred in Bridgend to help heal wounds of diabetes patients.
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Why is everyone ill? Can ketamine and therapy treat alcoholism?
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Why monitor changes in Covid viruses in China? A potential new therapy for alcoholism.
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How can a cold home affect your health?
Tue 1 Nov 2022
James is in South Wales to visit a cryo-lab and explore the impact of cold on the body.
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GP Records, Serotonin & how we get cancer
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Do you want to see your GP records at the touch of a button?
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Still Shielding; Childhood Vaccinations; Antibiotic Use
Tue 18 Oct 2022
The plight of the Covid-19 shielders.
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Have I dodged Covid? And skin colour and health
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Has James really dodged Covid? He gets to grips with his immunity, with blood test in tow.
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