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Inside Health
Series that demystifies health issues, separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice.
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The Revolution in Cystic Fibrosis Care That is Changing Lives
In 1964, the future for children born with Cystic Fibrosis was grim - most faced a life cut tragically short. Today, the majority of people living wit...
Potential Break Through in Dementia Treatment
Dementia is now the UK’s leading cause of death - but could a vaccine one day help prevent it? New data from Wales suggests the shingles vaccine is li...
Is it safe to give kids melatonin?
More and more parents are using melatonin to help their children sleep - but there is little research on the long-term effects.
So, what do we...
Can we reverse rising drug deaths?
Drug-related deaths are at their highest levels in England and Wales since records began 30 years ago.
Scotland has had the highest number of dr...
Exosomes: Is cosmetics' biggest trend a health risk?
Exosomes are tiny balls of fat that allow cells to communicate with each other in our bodies. They're being actively researched as an experimental new...
Health risks of bin strikes, measles warning and ethics
With bin strikes in Birmingham having gone on for months, James Gallagher heads to the Small Heath area of the city to ask what the health risks could...
Sport and the female body
As an era-defining summer of women’s sport kicks off, Inside Health looks at the science of sport and the female body.
What do we know about ho...
Can the ten-year plan save the NHS? Heart scans with AI, and who invented condoms?
The Prime Minister has launched a 'new era' for the NHS that aims to move away from reactive care in hospitals to preventing illness through community...
Are we being too safe in the sun? How to balance the risks
When the sun shines, out come the warnings that we all need to be careful in the sun to avoid burning and the risk of skin cancer. There are, though,...
Can you be addicted to sugar?
What's the science behind a sweet tooth? James Gallagher explores whether sugar really can be addicted and what happens in our bodies when we want it...
Assisted Dying: What might the final moments be like?
We continue our exploration of some of the issues that could crop up if assisted dying becomes law under The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill...
Dementia: Your questions answered and lion's mane mushrooms in the lab
You sent in your questions on dementia and now we're tackling them. Professor Tara Spires-Jones, Director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences a...
Assisted dying: How can we be certain someone wants to die?
We continue our exploration of some of the issues that could crop up if assisted dying becomes law under The Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill th...
Assisted dying: Who’s eligible under the proposed bill?
The Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill is working its way through Parliament. If it became law in England and Wales it would be one of those momen...
How did the Covid-19 pandemic change medicine?
Five years on from the first Covid lockdown in the UK, we consider how the pandemic changed medicine.
We're joined by Dr Emma Wall, academic co...
Why do we lose our hearing with age?
John is registered blind, and relies on his hearing to get around in his everyday life. But as he has got older, he’s started to notice his hearing de...
Will wearables revolutionise healthcare? Cardiff Science Festival special
Fitness trackers at the ready! Join James Gallagher at Cardiff Science Festival as he runs through the ways wearable tech is making an impact on healt...
Allergies: How to support young people as they grow up
When we hit our teens it's often a time when everything starts to change. We meet new friends through work or studies, we start going out more at nigh...
How shoes affect our bodies and a focus on genital herpes
Has James been buying shoes that are bad his feet? He meets podiatrist Dao Tunprasert to find out how healthy his shoes are. Also, returning to our th...
Bird flu update after UK farm worker infected and your questions on urinary problems
James Gallagher discusses the risk from H5N1 bird flu in the UK as a poultry worker in the West Midlands is infected and looks to the US where the dis...
Raw milk: What are the risks and why are people talking about it?
Pasteurising milk makes it safer, but are there any benefits to drinking it “raw”? James heads to a dairy farm to investigate the evidence and see if...
Can you really boost your immune system?
From kombucha to cold water swims, sleep to supplements, so many things are claimed to help enhance your immune system. We investigate the evidence, a...
Mould and Indoor Air Pollution: How Concerned Should You Be?
It has been a cold start to the year and for many that means the heating's on, windows are shut and we're drying clothes inside the house. For many pe...
Can supervised toothbrushing fix the children's dental crisis?
In the UK, around a third of British children have tooth decay. Just among the under-fives, it's a quarter - a figure that rises significantly in the...
Olympian Sir Chris Hoy wants more tests for prostate cancer - should it happen?
Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is calling for more prostate cancer testing after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Prostate cancer c...
What next for Alzheimer's treatment?
The first drugs to slow Alzheimer's progression have been making headlines around the world. For researchers in the field, the arrival of these two th...
Focus on the breath
Have you ever thought about how you breathe? For many of us, the 20,000+ breaths we take each day go underneath our conscious awareness. But every now...
How does embarrassment affect your health?
There are so many campaigns now to stop stigma and embarrassment - from Davina McCall talking about the menopause to Idris Elba campaigning for black...
Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases
If you have a rare genetic disorder, new technology that allows your genetic code to be analysed means you could have a diagnosis within weeks. Before...
Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks
Trials of a cancer 'vaccine' have begun and presenter James meets Steve, one of the first patients to trial the new treatment, Steve remembers his sho...
Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
Mpox is spreading and it’s been classified a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Presenter James Gallagher meets Professor Trudi...
What should we do about vaping?
Richard was 10 when he started smoking, and by the age of 35, he had given up on giving up smoking. But thanks to vaping he quit, almost by accident,...
Can diet and exercise ever replace statins?
The inventor of statins, Akira Endo, died this summer. When he was prescribed statins in older age for high cholesterol he refused, preferring to impr...
How can we age well?
From the Hay Festival, James and a panel of experts explain what we can all do to help ourselves age well.
We discover what’s going on in our b...
Is watching sport good for you?
As the emotional roller coaster of the Euros comes to a close and the summer Olympics begin, James joins Professor Damian Bailey for an experiment to...
What does alcohol do to the body and brain?
This week James visits a pub in Liverpool where he's joined by a trio of alcohol researchers who’ll watch carefully as he drinks two pints of lager.
Are more young people getting cancer?
Last month, Catherine, Princess of Wales shared she’d been diagnosed with cancer. Describing this news as ‘a huge shock’ and at age just 42, the Princ...
Can insomnia be fixed?
How did you sleep last night?
Perhaps you couldn't drift off, or maybe you woke in the middle of the night and then couldn't nod off again.
We go on a tick hunt
Scientists are worried about ticks.
They say they’re starting to pose more of a health risk here in the UK, as our climate warms and urban area...
Is intermittent fasting good for you?
Have you ever tried intermittent fasting? As the month of Ramadan comes to an end, many Muslims are concluding several weeks of time-restricted eating...