Synopsis
The Health Report appeals to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts. One audio file of each program for continuous listening.
Episodes
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![Coronavirus — Indigenous communities, CPAP treatment and deep cleaning]()
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![Coronavirus — quarantine health, fever clinics and ibuprofen]()
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![Travel bans, coronavirus and intensive care, and tracking the virus]()
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![To fight coronavirus, look to pandemics past]()
To fight coronavirus, look to pandemics past
11/03/2020 Duration: 33minThe intersection of human societies, agricultural and wild animals ensures that new diseases — sometimes devastatingly infectious — spring up again and again.
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![Coronavirus — whats going on in Italy?]()
Coronavirus — what's going on in Italy?
10/03/2020 Duration: 28minCoronacast is a daily podcast that's all about answering your coronavirus questions, hosted by Dr Norman Swan and Tegan Taylor. On the show today — what's going on in Italy and what are the chances mass quarantine will work? Does air travel increase the risk of getting infected? And how does the COVID-19 testing process work?
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![Polycystic ovary syndrome, womens health and religious freedom, and building better cancer treatments]()
Polycystic ovary syndrome, women's health and religious freedom, and building better cancer treatments
09/03/2020 Duration: 28min -
![A coronavirus tipping point, antibiotics in pregnancy, broken legs and heart health risks]()
A coronavirus tipping point, antibiotics in pregnancy, broken legs and heart health risks
24/02/2020 Duration: 28min -
![A $25,000 checkup, wheat sensitivity, rogue cells and Trexit]()
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![Coronavirus — how bad is it and how do we stop it?]()
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![Extreme deprivation in early life and brain development, and ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment]()
Extreme deprivation in early life and brain development, and ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
27/01/2020 Duration: 28min -
![Babies and bushfire smoke, reducing pre-term births, AI and brain tumours, and paying for plasma donations]()
Babies and bushfire smoke, reducing pre-term births, AI and brain tumours, and paying for plasma donations
20/01/2020 Duration: 30min -
![Faecal incontinence and sudden deafness]()
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![Training your brain and body]()
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![Personalised medicine — hope or hype?]()
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![Gene editing our way to better health?]()
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![New frontiers in allergy, cancer and the immune system]()
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![Brain fluid leaks, heart troubles, environmental health in the Kimberley and defining health poverty]()
Brain fluid leaks, heart troubles, environmental health in the Kimberley and defining health poverty
09/12/2019 Duration: 29min -
![Bushfires and air quality, a deadly fungal infection and sex differences in cancer]()
Bushfires and air quality, a deadly fungal infection and sex differences in cancer
02/12/2019 Duration: 28min
