Health Report - Separate stories podcast
The Health Report separate stories podcast lets you pick which stories to download. The Health Report appeals to specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health and seeing it within social, scientific and political contexts.
- Website
- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/
- Description
- The Health Report separate stories podcast lets you pick which stories to download. The Health Report appeals to specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health and seeing it within social, scientific and political contexts.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-14 14:03
- last episode published
- 2024-12-14 05:04
- publication frequency
- 1.78 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1615
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine Health & Fitness
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-14 | More than 400 people have come down with a unidentified disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed teams to identify the cause of the outbreak, which is largely affecting children under five years of a... |
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| 2024-12-14 | More and more medical tests are being marketed direct to consumers. These range from STI tests to multicancer detection tests.There are concerns these tests aren’t reliable, and could either give people false confidence, or a false positive.Experts thi... |
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| 2024-12-14 |
Investigating the environmental triggers for motor neurone disease The number of Australians diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has increased over the past 40 years.But only 10 per cent of cases have a clear genetic cause.Scientists have been investigating the possible environmental triggers for sporadic MND.T... |
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| 2024-12-14 | The third most commonly injected illegal drug in Australia is performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs).Steroids and other PIEDs have long been the 'open' secret behind the muscled superheroes of Hollywood. With an increasing number of Australians ... |
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| 2024-12-07 | The latest health news, including a major study into psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases, which shows women in particular are at risk. Also, is COVID finally becoming seasonal? And a clarification about a recent study on hormone replaceme... |
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| 2024-12-07 |
Why there are no consistent guidelines for gestational diabetes Depending on where you live, you might get tested for gestational diabetes in the first few weeks of pregnancy, or you won't get tested until you're between 24 to 28 weeks.Researchers have been trying to find the evidence to support a consistent approa... |
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| 2024-12-07 | You might have heard about people ditching plastics – worrying that they might be leaching chemicals into their food or drinks.And if you have heard of this, you’ve probably heard the acronym BPA.It stands for Bisphenol A, and one of the big concerns p... |
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| 2024-12-07 | As the population ages it’s estimated the number of people living with dementia will almost double by 2054.While scientific advances could change that, one expert believes a single-minded focus on finding a cure could be distracting from improving the ... |
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| 2024-12-07 | A look at some of the Health Report correspondence this week.You can email us at healthreport@abc.net.au |
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| 2024-11-30 | There's been a burst of fake ads promoting 'Glyco Balance' online — an expensive dietary supplement that claims to solve a whole host of health problems.A deepfake video of a leading diabetes expert has been taken down for violating Meta's policies. In... |
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