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Dr Pod S2 Episode 24
Updated: 2008-09-16 21:24:02
Description: Clumsiness, ear infections and even thinking too hard have all been associated with childhood obesity.. listen on to find out why . New treatments for Asthma are discussed whilst research suggest that sweatiness may determine your likelihood of asthm...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 26
Updated: 2009-06-08 21:37:41
Description: Welcome back to Dr Pod. A brief round up of the medical news and research for June. Swine Flu, alzheimers research, homeopathy treatments for the third world, new treatments for melanoma, genetics in testicular cancer and much more.......more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 21
Updated: 2008-04-11 12:43:54
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 22
Updated: 2008-06-19 21:12:46
Description: 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 l...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 23
Updated: 2008-08-14 09:02:15
Description: This week, we discuss new treatments for HIV, obese schools and statin use in kids. New IVF embryo tests could improve fertility chances, howeve new research suggests that common treatments for unexplained infertility may be not be helpful. Garlic m...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 25
Updated: 2008-11-09 22:14:15
Description: New strategies to tackle obesity, 'preggie' brain, stress responses in anti-social behaviour disorder, genes that may lead to baldness, the role of fatherly contact on intelligence and how jam and jelly may halt the spread of cancer are just some of...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 25
Updated: 2008-11-09 22:14:15
Description: New strategies to tackle obesity, 'preggie' brain, stress responses in anti-social behaviour disorder, genes that may lead to baldness, the role of fatherly contact on intelligence and how jam and jelly may halt the spread of cancer are just some of...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 20
Updated: 2008-03-05 22:45:33
Description: 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 f...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 21
Updated: 2008-04-11 12:43:54
Description: 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 t...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 22
Updated: 2008-06-19 21:12:46
Description: 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 l...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 23
Updated: 2008-08-14 09:02:15
Description: This week, we discuss new treatments for HIV, obese schools and statin use in kids. New IVF embryo tests could improve fertility chances, howeve new research suggests that common treatments for unexplained infertility may be not be helpful. Garlic m...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 24
Updated: 2008-09-16 21:24:02
Description: Clumsiness, ear infections and even thinking too hard have all been associated with childhood obesity.. listen on to find out why . New treatments for Asthma are discussed whilst research suggest that sweatiness may determine your likelihood of asthm...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 21
Updated: 2008-04-11 12:43:54
Description: 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 t...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 20
Updated: 2008-03-05 22:45:33
Description: 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 f...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 19
Updated: 2008-01-31 00:11:54
Description: 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 dis...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 15
Updated: 2007-08-02 22:08:21
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 16
Updated: 2007-09-10 08:57:13
Description: 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 supplem...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 17
Updated: 2007-10-15 17:06:36
Description: 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 though...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 18
Updated: 2007-12-02 09:00:41
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 16
Updated: 2007-09-10 08:57:13
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 17
Updated: 2007-10-15 17:06:36
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 15
Updated: 2007-08-02 22:08:21
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 14
Updated: 2007-07-02 19:10:56
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 13
Updated: 2007-05-29 18:14:29
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 12
Updated: 2007-04-30 22:22:52
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 11
Updated: 2007-03-26 20:24:47
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 10
Updated: 2007-03-02 21:34:06
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 9
Updated: 2007-02-01 22:06:38
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 8
Updated: 2007-01-13 21:21:49
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 7
Updated: 2006-12-20 22:30:45
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 6
Updated: 2006-12-05 22:34:19
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 5
Updated: 2006-11-19 22:26:16
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 2
Updated: 2006-10-01 21:50:28
Description: 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...more...

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Dr Pod S2 Episode 1
Updated: 2006-09-15 09:34:20
Description: 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...more...

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