This week we’re exploring our microbial metropolis.
Smitha Mundasad heads into the lab to meet the bacteria that live on her skin – and on her family’s dirty laundry – to understand what’s there, and why. She goes antibiotic-hunting around her house to find out whether bacteria on a washing up sponge, a fluffy cushion, the bottom of a shoe – and even some of her kids’ play slime – could hold the key to helping scientists find new medicines. Next, Smitha wants to find out the answer to how often we should wash ourselves – and our clothes – for good health, but, as she finds out, this question is not as simple as it sounds. It turns out there's a big difference between cleanliness and hygiene – and the confusion between these two rather important words could be having an impact on our health…
Presenter: Dr Smitha Mundasad Producer: Gerry Holt Editor: Holly Squire
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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