Health Report - Full program podcast
Covering the health stories that make a difference. Dr Norman Swan and Dr Preeya Alexander dissect the latest and breaking news in the medical world.
Latest episodes
Apr 26, 2021 • 29min
Firearms regulation; multiple sclerosis and a new approach, Italian findings about schizophrenia, the ongoing health of cancer survivors
Gun policy and regulation; new approaches in treatment for multiple sclerosis; Italian findings about recovery for people with schizophrenia; the continued health of cancer survivors.
Apr 19, 2021 • 36min
Urinary tract infections | heart disease differences | cancer prognosis tool | Australia and U.S. COVID-19 comparison
What's best for urinary tract infections; heart disease differences between men and women; online tool for cancer patients; differences between the U.S. and Australia for COVID-19
Apr 12, 2021 • 33min
Thumb-base osteoarthritis; blood biomarkers and Alzheimer's diagnostics; Aged Care Commission expectations; better childbirth experiences for Indigenous women ; Q&A
Apr 5, 2021 • 30min
The day I lost my mind
If you mention Transient Global Amnesia – TGA – chances are that nobody has heard of it. When Dasha Ross lost her memory for a day she was diagnosed as having experienced this mysterious ‘neurological enigma'. It affects over a thousand Australians a year, and Dasha was determined to find out why it happened and what caused it.
Mar 29, 2021 • 29min
Historical pandemics - their past and future; and assessing prediabetes
One of the sessions at the recent World Science Festival was The Pulse of the Pandemic with Michael Osterholm, who spoke about pandemics past, present, and future. He's researched them for most of his career and was one of the first to warn that the current one was going to be bad. Plus recent research on pre-diabetes - which sometimes does not lead to diabetes.
Mar 22, 2021 • 38min
Less sugar in soft drinks; prescribing sociality; cervical cancer screening and Indigenous women; pandemic pregnancy
Mar 15, 2021 • 30min
Testosterone and exercise; veracity of people with mental health difficulties; and doctors' comments curtailed
Recently the issue has been raised about the credibility of people with mental health issues - what does psychiatric research and evidence tell us about the issues? And concern from doctors that their capacity to comment on COVID-19 vaccines is being reduced. And a West Australian group of researchers has looked at whether testosterone can really do all we think it can.
Mar 8, 2021 • 39min
Genetic testing with online services, the effect of genetics on a population, safer pregnancy and antenatal care services, and why nano stuff and stem cells are like teenagers
Mar 1, 2021 • 37min
Auckland lockdown, microplastics, mapping mortality, breast cancer drug
The Auckland COVID-19 Lockdown; Microplastics and seafood - what do we actually know about its effect on our health; a team of researchers from Monash University has discovered that a cardiac drug (carvedilol) could greatly reduce breast cancer progression; and the lifespan of Australians in capital cities can vary by 30 years, depending on where someone lives. In regional Australia there’s a greater difference.
Feb 22, 2021 • 38min
Reducing smoking in Indigenous populations, oncology trials - practice, efficacy, and reliability
What you can find out in cancer drug trials when you follow then for years, and the huge disparity in cancer clinical trials between rich, and low to middle income countries, and how there's a mismatch between burden of disease and what's actually studied.
