Health Report - Full program podcast
The Health Report appeals to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts. One audio file of each program for continuous listening.
- Website
- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/
- Description
- The Health Report appeals to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts. One audio file of each program for continuous listening.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-03 22:06
- last episode published
- 2024-05-04 05:01
- publication frequency
- 3.04 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 955
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine Health & Fitness
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-04 |
Iron for long-COVID, 'holy grail' flu shots, and prolonged grief disorder Researchers have found a possible link between iron and long-COVIDEach year the flu vaccine is reformulated to target the current strains of influenza A and B that are circulating globally — but what if it didn't need to be?A new review of Health at Ev... |
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| 2024-04-27 |
Sports bras support knees, bird flu in milk, and health after prison release Avian influenza particles have been detected in US milk supplies, just how concerning is that?Why are COVID treatment recommendations different depending on what country you're in?And how much does the average Australian know about preventing dementia?... |
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| 2024-04-20 |
Autism's gender influence, counting lives saved by COVID vaccines, and trauma therapy Research into the influence of gender on autism spectrum disorder diagnoses.Calculating how many lives were saved by Australia's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, and how to spot a fake Dr Karl, or Dr Swan, in the wilds of social media marketing.A review into... |
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| 2024-04-16 | In light of the Bondi Junction attack, there's been a lot of commentary about mental illness - including schizophrenia.So what is schizophrenia? While the exact cause isn't known, it's a serious mental illness that can affect how a person behaves. It m... |
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| 2024-04-13 |
Treating UTIs (without cranberry juice) and re-examining gender care Is a simpler solution to recurrent UTIs on the way? Plus when should you exercise to get the most benefit?A deep dive into the UK's reviews of gender affirming treatment, and how Australia's system differs. Researchers say there's more PFAS in our wate... |
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| 2024-04-06 | In health news this week it's cows with bird flu, vaccines for human flu, and GLP-1s for Parkinson's and possibly bowel cancer prevention.When your private health insurer won't pay, have you read the fine print on your policy lately?A look at health li... |
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| 2024-03-30 |
The bacteria causing bowel cancer, and how to make indoor air safer How changes to codeine access impacted the use of PBS-listed opiods. Pinpointing particular strains of bacteria that could lead to bowel cancer. The Australian research that helped change our definition of anaemia. And why aren't there already strict g... |
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| 2024-03-23 |
ADHD treatment effects, and why no one knows what your cancer treatment will do to your ovaries Three recent scientific papers looking at ADHD treatment and other health outcomes.Why no one knows what your cancer treatment will do to your ovaries.In a small US study, brain cancer tumours shrank rapidly in the first few days when treated with chim... |
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| 2024-03-16 |
Scrapping the term Long-COVID? Is toddler food bad? And the sick quitter effect Queensland's Chief Health Officer says the term "long-COVID" should be scrapped, but there are different definitions of what long-COVID is and different ways data is collectedEvidence suggests toddler or transition milks are unnecessary at best and har... |
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| 2024-03-09 |
Short sleep and diabetes | Menopause and mood | VR patients and emergency A 62-year-old man in Germany—called HIM—deliberately received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination 217 times within a period of 29 months. Researchers were keen to know how he fared.Sleep has become a bit of an obsession and has us questioning just how much we n... |
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