Inside Health

by BBC Radio 4

Series that demystifies health issues, separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice.

Assisted Dying: What might the final moments be like?
Apr 15, 2025 – 28:14
Dementia: Your questions answered and lion's mane mushrooms in the lab
Apr 8, 2025 – 28:16
Assisted dying: How can we be certain someone wants to die?
Apr 8, 2025 – 28:18
Assisted dying: Who’s eligible under the proposed bill?
Apr 1, 2025 – 27:58
How did the Covid-19 pandemic change medicine?
Mar 25, 2025 – 27:54
Why do we lose our hearing with age?
Mar 18, 2025 – 28:11
Will wearables revolutionise healthcare? Cardiff Science Festival special
Mar 11, 2025 – 28:00
Allergies: How to support young people as they grow up
Mar 4, 2025 – 28:23
How shoes affect our bodies and a focus on genital herpes
Feb 25, 2025 – 28:01
Bird flu update after UK farm worker infected and your questions on urinary problems
Feb 11, 2025 – 27:51
Raw milk: What are the risks and why are people talking about it?
Feb 4, 2025 – 28:01
Can you really boost your immune system?
Jan 28, 2025 – 28:05
Mould and Indoor Air Pollution: How Concerned Should You Be?
Jan 27, 2025 – 28:45
Can supervised toothbrushing fix the children's dental crisis?
Nov 19, 2024 – 28:05
Olympian Sir Chris Hoy wants more tests for prostate cancer - should it happen?
Nov 12, 2024 – 27:53
What next for Alzheimer's treatment?
Nov 5, 2024 – 27:44
Focus on the breath
Oct 29, 2024 – 28:03
How does embarrassment affect your health?
Oct 22, 2024 – 28:28
Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases
Oct 16, 2024 – 28:01
Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks
Aug 27, 2024 – 28:03
Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies
Aug 20, 2024 – 28:05
What should we do about vaping?
Aug 13, 2024 – 27:57
Can diet and exercise ever replace statins?
Aug 6, 2024 – 28:17
How can we age well?
Jul 30, 2024 – 27:51
Is watching sport good for you?
Jul 23, 2024 – 27:54
What does alcohol do to the body and brain?
May 7, 2024 – 27:45
Are more young people getting cancer?
Apr 30, 2024 – 27:39
Can insomnia be fixed?
Apr 23, 2024 – 27:53
We go on a tick hunt
Apr 16, 2024 – 27:53
Is intermittent fasting good for you?
Apr 9, 2024 – 27:57
Can noise harm our health?
Apr 2, 2024 – 27:52
Coffee, nap, rave, repeat...
Feb 13, 2024 – 28:52
Why recovering from long Covid is a lot like training for the Olympics
Feb 6, 2024 – 28:32
A guide to the perimenopause
Jan 30, 2024 – 28:49
Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us?
Jan 23, 2024 – 28:29
Bladder, bowels and sex: Learning to live after my mountain accident
Jan 16, 2024 – 27:47
Living in a Bacterial World
Jan 9, 2024 – 27:50
How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?
Nov 8, 2023 – 28:18
What's stopping us from exercising in older age?
Oct 24, 2023 – 28:14
Inside a sexual assault referral centre
Oct 10, 2023 – 28:33
Migraines and Headaches
Oct 3, 2023 – 30:17
When does sitting become bad for health?
Sep 26, 2023 – 27:52
Why is syphilis making a comeback?
Sep 19, 2023 – 28:42
On the trail of a new street drug
Aug 15, 2023 – 28:57
What difference could new Alzheimer’s disease drugs make?
Aug 8, 2023 – 28:37
Could weight-loss drugs treat addiction?
Aug 2, 2023 – 29:03
What happened to mpox?
Jul 25, 2023 – 28:24
How fast should you eat your food?
Jul 18, 2023 – 28:30
How hot is too hot for human health?
Jul 11, 2023 – 28:40
Did Covid turn us into teeth grinders?
Mar 21, 2023 – 28:08

Recent Reviews

malfoxley

Great show!

Dr. Porter, host of the podcast, highlights all aspects of health, wellness and more in this can’t miss podcast! The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone that listens!
EricaBushwell

Awesome podcast!

The host of the Inside Health podcast, highlights all aspects of health, wellness and more in this can’t miss podcast! The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone that listens!
brainzmatter

Used to be very good

I can’t even listen to this episode—the description is so full of pseudo medicine—in a time when the medical world is trying so hard to combat Covid misinformation, this is a travesty. It seems to consist of testimonials—which are NOT evidence, and Claudia Hammond should know better. I may tune in to see what Dr Margaret McCartney says as she has always been very science-based, but I am saturated with medical nonsense with Trump and all. Touch is one thing—mumbo-jumbo and what amounts to laying-on-of-hands is another—good journalists need to do better.
NancyS1

High blood pressure show January 2019

Please, please, please do more shows on high blood pressure. This podcast was very helpful but I would like to hear more about drugs that are most effective, side effects and the latest thinking on this silent killer as the world population ages and high BP becomes a problem for 25% of the world. There are no other podcasts covering this important topic and I’m sure you’ll find a large audience.
Mikehillslasveg

Stem Cells

Can we dedicate a whole show to the future of stem cells?
cartoonPirate

Would be flawless without McCartney

This is definitely a very interesting podcast in healthcare category. It would have been a lot better if GP M.McCartney had showed some respect and would stopp interrupting people who are contributing to advanced technologies in healthcare. It’s alright to be conservative and express opposed ideas but she needs to respect some of the guests. What is she protecting? If she listened to herself on the podcast, she’d probably realise she is not what she claims to be.
Edward912

Excellent

Very informative. Thank you for this brilliant podcast.
clif0079

Great ;)

A well spoken and articulate medical podcast. Highly recommend!
incognito82

Very imformative. Great program.

I learn so much about medical issues from this program. Very easy to follow. Great program.