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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 248
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
3 October: The silent rise of chronic kidney disease | Improving care for Indigenous youth with diabetes
Bringing clarity to health and medical issues from social, scientific and political points of view.
Mon 03 Oct 2022
26 September: The benefit of 10,000 steps | The risk of too much TV | Getting restless kids to sleep
Bringing clarity to health and medical issues from social, scientific and political points of view.
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Mon 26 Sep 2022
What do royals die of — and how have their deaths shaped history?
From King George III's apparent madness, to Queen Victoria's genetic legacy, the Health Report takes a look back at the illnesses (and deaths) that have shaped the world.
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Mon 19 Sep 2022
12 September: Safe drinking | Obesity and cancer | Cardiovascular risk in autoimmune disorders | A new malaria vaccine
Vital health and medical news.
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Mon 12 Sep 2022
5 September: Melanoma detection | Yoga for heart health | Stroke risk | Life-changing gene therapy
Vital health and medical news.
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Mon 05 Sep 2022
29 August: Plant-based vs keto diets | Vitamin toxicity | Added sugar labels | COVID-19 genetics
Vital health and medical news.
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Mon 29 Aug 2022
22 August: Early time-restricted eating | Healthy produce prescriptions | Weight management with GPs
Exploring how changing your diet—or even your eating schedule—can improve your long-term health outcomes.
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Mon 22 Aug 2022
15 August: Myocarditis | Alcohol marketing | Methadone stigma | Social housing
Vital health and medical news.
Mon 15 Aug 2022
8 August: Cervical cancer screening | Miscarriage and stroke risk | BCG vaccine and kids | Shingles update
An option for cervical cancer screening could be a game-changer and miscarriages or stillbirths may bring an increased risk of stroke
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Mon 08 Aug 2022
1 August: Ventilation | Vitamin D | Shingles
With COVID there are more protective measures to take—and there's a historical parallel | The results of a trial of vitamin D supplementation find no evidence to support vitamin D supplements | Shing…
00:28:35 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
25 July: Health services in the final year of life; clarity for legal wording on voluntary assisted dying; social inequity and heart attack; climate and mental health
The amount of money to spend on health care in the last year of someone's life is debatable. | The vital eligibility criterion for voluntary assisted dying in Australia is a problematic issue for doc…
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Mon 25 Jul 2022
18 July: Living with COVID ain't rosy; Why vax boosters are necessary; Exercise won't fix poor diet
Some immunologists are concerned that COVID-19 is not travelling as expected. An internationally respected immunologist had four doses of COVID vaccine but now recovering from heart failure after get…
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Mon 18 Jul 2022
11 July: Tackling obesity | Standards on how to handle sepsis | The right amount of Vitamin D
In 2009 Australia launched a National Preventive Health Strategy with the aim of being the healthiest country in the world by 2020—where we're at with it now.
The Australian Commission on Safety and…
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Mon 11 Jul 2022
4 July: Coming to terms with long COVID; Vaxes for variants; An artificial pancreas; Protecting pandemic teens
Australia has many stories from people who say they have long COVID but who are unable to access help | Updated versions of coronavirus vaccines targeting the Omicron variant have been announced, yet…
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Mon 04 Jul 2022
Speculating on an Australian Centre of Disease Control and Prevention; How Indigenous culture can protect the heart; Associations between mental health and mortality
What an Australian Centre for Disease Control might aim to be; An Indigenous perspective and research to engage culture for protection against cardiovascular disease and stroke; Research on links bet…
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Mon 27 Jun 2022
Breast density and MRIs, diet and mental health, genomics and osteoarthritis
There may be a link between what you eat and your mental health—also, avoiding overtreatment for breast cancer; predicting your risk of osteoarthritis; and whether mammogram results should inform wom…
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Mon 20 Jun 2022
The cancer risks that run through generations
The cancer risks that run through generations of families—and the growing frontier in medicine trying to change that.
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Mon 13 Jun 2022
Cancer treatment and 'time toxicity'; youth mental health and smoking; a paradox for cholesterol levels
The term 'time toxicity' expresses the idea that if treatment to extend a patient's life means lengthy periods in medical facilities, it may be time wasted; In Australia smoking has decreased general…
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Mon 06 Jun 2022
Abortion access, lipid profiling; quality of life and cancer drugs; exercise and kids' heart surgery
Those at greatest risk from unplanned pregnancy are often least able to access it; Study on 800 different lipids to check your metabolic risk and health profile; It's important to ask if someone's li…
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Mon 30 May 2022
What is monkeypox and where is it coming from? treating the rise in melanoma cases; better stroke management; comparing data on mental health conditions against immune-related diseases
Combating monkeypox with increased vaccination—and monitoring polio cases in Ukraine; Treating the increasing number of melanoma cases; A faster and more mobile way to diagnose stroke; Comparing data…
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Mon 23 May 2022
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