In this episode we’re taking a look at emergency medicine outside hospitals and surgeries – and meeting the people who save seriously-ill people in unusual places.
Smitha Mundasad goes on a rainy walk in the hills with the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team and meets the flying medics of London’s Air Ambulance. Will she have time for a chat before they get a call-out? We also hear from Sweden where they’re making lifesaving changes before the ambulance even arrives.
And from kombucha and kimchi to keffir and sourdough, fermented food and drink is everywhere. But as these foods have exploded in popularity, so have claims of health benefits, from digestion and gut health, to immunity and mood.
We start by trying some fermenting with chef Olia Hercules and then Smitha chats to fermented food “nerd” Professor Paul Cotter to sift through the evidence.
Next week’s Inside Health is all about the perimenopause – the time leading up to the menopause when oestrogen starts to drop. Why is it all still such a mystery?
Send us your questions – and we’ll put them to our panel. It’s insidehealth@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Smitha Mundasad Producer: Gerry Holt Editor: Martin Smith Production co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
Declared interests: Professor Paul Cotter: “Research in the Cotter laboratory has been funded by PrecisionBiotics Group, Friesland Campina, Danone and PepsiCo. Paul Cotter has also received funding to travel to or present at meetings by H&H, the National Dairy Council U.S., PepsiCo, Abbott, Arla and Yakult. In addition, he is the co-founder and CTO of SeqBiome Ltd., a provider of sequencing and bioinformatics services for microbiome analysis.”
GP incentives; Walk-in CT scans; Hot Flushes feedback; New anti-coagulants
Private hospitals, Hyperbaric medicine, Sick day rules to reduce kidney damage, Warfarin
Sickness Absence, Ankle Arthritis, Hot Flushes, Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Ebola, Painkillers, Immunity (CVID), Integrated Health, Thyroid and Pregnancy
Antibiotics, Winter Flu, NHS Continuing Healthcare, Snoring
Conflict resolution in Ashya King case; GPs near work; Lipoedema
Conflicted Medicine: Public Health Campaigns
Conflicted Medicine: Specialists and GPs
Conflicted Medicine: Pharmaceuticals
HIV and MS; Black skin and cancer; Iron overload; Losing your sense of smell
Back pain and paracetamol, blood thinning drugs, drug driving, kidney stones
Statins, Cholesterol-lowering spreads, Olive oil, Diet and inflammatory bowel disease, Singers' nodules
Screening for Breast Cancer
Ebola, Bike saddles, Recording consultations, Insect bites
Statins; improving cancer survival rates; reflux and heartburn; recycling medicines.
Hospital patients dying of thirst; Paracetamol; Saturated fats; Baclofen and alcoholism
Video consultations, Low-fibre diets, Testosterone
Anti-virals for flu, Bod Pod test for body fat, Patients' weight, X-rays and cancer
Care of the dying, Birdsong in GP surgeries, Sex development
Stress and pregnancy, CBT for insomnia, Cluster headache, Smoking and mental health
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