BBC Radio 4 - Medical Matters
Medical Matters
The latest medical information and advice from Radio 4's health programmes. In Inside Health Dr Mark Porter takes an in-depth look at a different topic each week, speaking to doctors, patients and researchers about the latest treatments. In All in the Mind, psychologist, Claudia Hammond examines how we think and why we behave as we do.
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MedMatters: All In The Mind: 15 May 12: Bonuses
Bonuses; Street Therapy & Insanity Defence
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MedMatters: All In The Mind: 08 May 12: Claudia visits HMP Grendon, the only prison in Europe that runs as a therapeutic community
Claudia Hammond visits HMP Grendon, the only prison in Europe which operates wholly as a therapeutic community. More than nine out of ten prisoners at Grendon are serving indeterminate sentences for murder or serious violent offences. Inmates have to apply for a place and once approved undergo intensive group therapy three times a week for well over a year. Claudia talks to inmates, therapists and prison staff to find out how the prison operates and how its unique environment aims to reduce reoffending rates.
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MedMatters: All In The Mind: 01 May 12: Mental health services and NHS reform and the psychology of online dating
What will happen to mental health services under the changes to the NHS next year? And what can psychological science tell us about online dating?
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MedMatters: Inside Health:Depression,Choir,Heart,Drinks
Dr Mark Porter finds out if it's true that a blood test can identify depression. The benefits of choir singing. Mark investigates how a new treatment for heart failure can transform patients overnight. And do special muscle-building drinks live up to the marketing hype?
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MedMatters: Inside Health: Whooping Cough,Maternal deaths
Why whooping cough is making a comeback. Two radically different approaches for people who suffer from severe blushing - from a psychologist and a surgeon. Concern about changes to the way maternal deaths are investigated. Intestinal transit times. And Margaret McCartney doesn't like it when doctors use euphemisms for our genitals.