• Headlines on health

  • Auteur(s): SBS
  • Podcast

Headlines on health

Auteur(s): SBS
Écouter gratuitement

  • Résumé

  • Follow the latest news about health and wellness, with this collection of reports and interviews from the SBS News team. Hear the story behind the headline.
    Copyright 2025, Special Broadcasting Services
    Voir plus Voir moins
Hygiene & Healthy Living Politique Troubles et maladies
Voir plus Voir moins
Épisodes
  • New blood test could revolutionise dementia diagnoses

    New blood test could revolutionise dementia diagnoses
    Feb 1 2025
    A new blood test is being trialed in the UK to detect the early signs of dementia. It is hoped it could identify patients sooner, so they can potentially benefit from drugs that slow the progression of the disease. With more than 400,000 Australians identified by the Government as living with dementia - and a forecast that those numbers could go up to 900,000 by 2050 - that could be a significant breakthrough.
    Voir plus Voir moins
    5 min
  • INTERVIEW: How a plan to lose weight left Sarah sick and hospitalised

    INTERVIEW: How a plan to lose weight left Sarah sick and hospitalised
    Jan 18 2025
    Sarah Cox was told by her doctor to lose weight because her BMI, or Body Mass Index, was too high. But the consequences of her doctor's weight loss plan left the 35-year-old sick and hospitalised, as she battled an eating disorder for two-and-a-half years. Now, there is renewed scrutiny of the use of B-M-I as a measure of an individual's health. The tool has been used by doctors for more than 50 years to measure an individual's body fat, after it was first created in the 1830s by a Belgian mathematician [[Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet]] who was not a doctor or a health practitioner. More evidence has since emerged about its efficacy - and a group of experts from around the globe are proposing new definitions of obesity that consider a spectrum for how excess fat may or may not impact an individual's health. In this episode of Weekend One on One Catriona Stirrat speaks to Sarah Cox about how her doctor's reliance on BMI led to the frightening deterioration of her mental and physical health - and the changes she is calling for when it comes to improving health care for people with larger bodies.
    Voir plus Voir moins
    14 min
  • New treatment brings hope for patients diagnosed with rare cancer

    New treatment brings hope for patients diagnosed with rare cancer
    Jan 16 2025
    Around 100,000 Australians live with myelofibrosis, which is a rare form of blood cancer. Treating the condition is difficult - anaemia is a common side effect. But an Australian-developed drug - just approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration - is helping patients overcome some of the cancer's worst symptoms.
    Voir plus Voir moins
    4 min

Ce que les auditeurs disent de Headlines on health

Moyenne des évaluations de clients

Évaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.

Évaluations sur Audible.ca

Évaluations sur Amazon.ca
Il n'y a pas encore de critiques pour ce titre.