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Trumix.com listings available of Dr Pods Healthcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Dr Pod S2 Episode 22 Childhood leukaemia, the benefits of having a pet and why eating tomatoes could help keep you safe in the sun are all featured in this programme. We discuss heart attack rates after the smoking ban, osteoporosis genes and cancer drugs that could be linked to brain damage. Polyclinics feature in the ethics section and a talking first aid kit is todays gadget. All this and the latest health news too... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 22 Childhood leukaemia, the benefits of having a pet and why eating tomatoes could help keep you safe in the sun are all featured in this programme. We discuss heart attack rates after the smoking ban, osteoporosis genes and cancer drugs that could be linked to brain damage. Polyclinics feature in the ethics section and a talking first aid kit is todays gadget. All this and the latest health news too... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 21 In today’s programme- eating fish may boot intelligence in pregnancy, vitamin D may prevent diabetes and religion may be link ed to a happier life according to new studies. Short man syndrome may really exist and new ways to target genes for gene therapy are discussed . A further study finds no evidence of a link between MMR and autism. All that and much more… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 21 In today’s programme- eating fish may boot intelligence in pregnancy, vitamin D may prevent diabetes and religion may be link ed to a happier life according to new studies. Short man syndrome may really exist and new ways to target genes for gene therapy are discussed . A further study finds no evidence of a link between MMR and autism. All that and much more… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 20 GP practices are to open in supermarkets, concerns are raised about long term care costs and TV adverts are to tackle organ donor shortages. The research section includes 2 new treatments for diabetes- one from the skin of an exotic frog, the other from black tea. We also examine links between snoring and heart disease and one again concerns about mobile phones and cancer are the news. All this and much much more.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 20 GP practices are to open in supermarkets, concerns are raised about long term care costs and TV adverts are to tackle organ donor shortages. The research section includes 2 new treatments for diabetes- one from the skin of an exotic frog, the other from black tea. We also examine links between snoring and heart disease and one again concerns about mobile phones and cancer are the news. All this and much much more.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 19 In the news, a new single flu jab is being tested which may treat all types of flu including a potential bird flu pandemic. Men are to be screened for abdominal aneurysms, and a new case of vCJD in the UK raises question about another wave of the disease. In the research section, vitamin D and heart disease is explored, the real health effects of exercise, diet, smoking and alcohol disclosed, and we discuss the latest study about what’s bad for you during pregnancy.... and the coffee shop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 19 In the news, a new single flu jab is being tested which may treat all types of flu including a potential bird flu pandemic. Men are to be screened for abdominal aneurysms, and a new case of vCJD in the UK raises question about another wave of the disease. In the research section, vitamin D and heart disease is explored, the real health effects of exercise, diet, smoking and alcohol disclosed, and we discuss the latest study about what’s bad for you during pregnancy.... and the coffee shop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 18 The research this week includes how Vit D may prevent aging. We discuss whether chickpox vaccine should be added to the MMR vaccine, and how a new gene carried by half the population may predispose to obesity. Organic milk may help babies eczema, and a cannabis derived compound may halt spread of cancer cells. Further a gene called DHH gene may explain the link between smoking in pregnancy and infertility in the male offspring. We also have an interview with Frank Swain from Voice of Young ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 18 The research this week includes how Vit D may prevent aging. We discuss whether chickpox vaccine should be added to the MMR vaccine, and how a new gene carried by half the population may predispose to obesity. Organic milk may help babies eczema, and a cannabis derived compound may halt spread of cancer cells. Further a gene called DHH gene may explain the link between smoking in pregnancy and infertility in the male offspring. We also have an interview with Frank Swain from Voice of Young ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 17 In Episode 17, cholesterol is topical again- with new studies looking at the benefits of screening toddlers for high cholesterol, and a paper showing that statins, drugs used to treat cholesterol, may be have longer lasting benefits than first thought. Other research suggests that mobile phones are indeed safe but tailored herbal medicine has no benefit according to a new review. The common cold virus may be the next big thing in the fight against cancer and housework may cause asthma….Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 17 In Episode 17, cholesterol is topical again- with new studies looking at the benefits of screening toddlers for high cholesterol, and a paper showing that statins, drugs used to treat cholesterol, may Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 16 In episode 16, we'll be whipping around the world in the news round up, and then looking at the research; oxidation may be the new buzz in blood pressure research, off the shelf stem cell kits may soon help heart disease patients, and calcium supplements may prevent fracture in old people. Further, pollution may increase your risk of asthma, but only if your genes make you vulnerable. A new link between obesity and infertility is explained and research that suggests that waiting to cutting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 16 In episode 16, we'll be whipping around the world in the news round up, and then looking at the research; oxidation may be the new buzz in blood pressure research, off the shelf stem cell kits may soo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 15 This week we discuss how scorpion venom may help surgery for cancer. New research suggests that eating grapefruit may increase the risk of breast cancer and curry decrease the risk of Alzheimers. We d Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 15 This week we discuss how scorpion venom may help surgery for cancer. New research suggests that eating grapefruit may increase the risk of breast cancer and curry decrease the risk of Alzheimers. We discuss the benefits of resistance training for the heart and concerns that cancer may be higher nearer power plants. In our ethics section we look at the proposed ‘opt out’ scheme for organ donation. All that and much more......... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 14 In the news this week, NICE is challenged over is decision about alzheimers drugs, the hazards of parental smoking are revealed, the ongoing fiasco over doctors recruitment is discussed, and health of Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 13 Bird flu re-emerges in Vietnam, the first period free bill control pill is launched, concerns over a cancer epidemic are expressed as the UK faces an aging obese population. In the research section we Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 12 Todays news section discusses the new much criticised selection scheme for junior doctors, examines new obesity drugs, and screening for breast cancer suceptabilty genes in embryos. We discuss the lac Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 11 In the news this week alzheimers disease is on the rise, a doctor is convicted of euthanasia, a meningitis outbreak has killed thousands in Africa and Chinese food is drawing criticism from nutrition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 10 Anti-oxidants and chocolate are on the menu today as is fish…well, if you’re pregnant. We discuss a cure for blindness in the gadget section and developments in the diabetes field. Also featured is re Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 9 Features include how Folic Acid may boost cognition and how caffeine may or may not affect pregnancy. We discuss the effects of living near a busy road, how fibre may help reduce breast cancer and tel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 8 Happy New Year!! We discuss new hope for HIV positive mothers, look at the high risk of death in newly released prisoners, discusses why we shouldn’t add milk to our cup of tea, and look why making sn Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 7 Welcome back for the final Dr Pod of 2006.! This weeks programme looks at the falling rates of breast cancer rates and the role of dietary fat in preventing cancer recurrence. We look at 25 years of Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 6 Welcome back for another Dr Pod. This week we're talking about HIV, breast cancer imaging techniques, smoking and ecstacy and problems related to weight cycling. We have a gadget that may help snorin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 5 This podcast has a definite gadgety feel, with internet, wireless technology, medical chipping and 3-D pain software featuring. We’ll explain a bit more about ‘chimeric embryos’- controversial genetic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 2 Welcome back for series 2 episode 2 of Dr Pod. This week, we have 2 guest presenters- Moray Nairn and Sean Macbride- Stewart who join Dr Pod in a blitz of the topic journal research. Food science, ne Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Pod S2 Episode 1 Welcome back for Series 2 of Dr Pod!! Bigger, better and brasher than before. We'll be looking at perspectives of HIV around the world in our news section and vitamins, fruit flies, cold meat, asthma Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website