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How Bangor Hospital's Intensive Care Unit is Preparing for Winter

Saleyha Ahsan reports from Ysbyty Gwynedd, her own hospital in Bangor, North Wales about how the...

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20/10/2020

Covid-19 damages the lungs, leaving people struggling to get enough oxygen into their body. In...

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Covid-19 Test and Trace; Non-drug trials in a pandemic

Margaret McCartney on National Test and Trace and why households are receiving multiple calls....

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Touch in Health Care

The Radio 4 Touch Test included questions about touch in health care. Dr Natalie Bowling who's a...

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Antibodies to Covid in Kids, Covid and Colds, PIMS-TS,

The story of one child's recovery from PIMS-TS, the rare new condition that caught doctors by...

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Sticky Blood : From Blood Clots to Covid-19

Thromboses - blood clots that form in the circulation - are easily the biggest single killer of...

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Flu Vaccine; Dentistry and Covid; Diagnosing Coeliac disease; NHS preparations for winter

How will this year's expanded flu vaccine programme be delivered? In addition to usual groups the...

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Bedside Covid Test; Longterm Covid Recovery

Dr Mark Porter on a new bedside test that differentiates between Covid-19 and other infectious...

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Prescribing Cycling; Temperature Checks; False Positives; Choirs and Covid-19

As the Government announces GPs should start to prescribe cycling Margaret McCartney examines the...

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Public Health in the time of Coronavirus

Public health doctors don't dash around hospitals wearing white coats brandishing stethoscopes....

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Covid-19 and ethnicity in medicine; medical devices safety review

One of the most striking features of the coronavirus pandemic is the disproportionate toll it’s...

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Covid-19 and the Impact on UK Cancer Services

Coronavirus has turned the NHS upside down and inside out and by re-organising to treat people...

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Shielding; Pandemic Lexicon; Southampton Hospital; Doctor rejects NHS Superhero Tag

Tanya has rheumatoid arthritis, a compromised immune system and heart problems. Getting the virus...

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Longest Stay Covid-19 Patient; Health Inequalities; Agoraphobia; Covid-19 Testing

Claudia Hammond on the longest known stay for a Briton with COVID-19 in intensive care. A month...

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Acute Kidney Injury with Covid-19; Passive Immunisation; Online GPs; face mask interactions

There are a number of complications following infection with Covid-19 that doctors are continuing...

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Diabetes & Covid-19; Southampton Critical Care; Antigen Tests; Cytokine Storm

Evidence from China, Italy, the USA and now the UK shows categorically that people with diabetes...

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Smoking vs Covid-19; non-urgent treatments; loneliness surveys; Southampton update, covid and the law.

It's well established that the best thing smokers can do for their health is to quit. Smoking...

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Southampton update; health anxiety; death certifications; fast-track drug screening

Every week we’re heading to Southampton General Hospital, where we’ve heard a lot about the...

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Covid-19 drug trial; Mental health alone; Southampton update; Antarctica's lockdown lessons

A range of potential treatments have been suggested for Covid-19 but nobody knows if any of them...

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Covid-19 and moral injury; Asthma; Southampton update; Mental health services

Claudia Hammond reports on Covid-19 and "moral injury" - when the virus peaks, some healthcare...

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