Health Report
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.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
Health Report 2009-11-16
Published: 2009-11-15 09:00:00Health care reform World renowned health researcher and physician, Professor Elliott Fisher, is a leading health care reform commentator who visited Australia recently to speak at a forum of the Hospital Alliance for Research Collaboration. In this program he discusses his ideas about health care reform in the US and Australia.
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Health Report 2009-11-09
Published: 2009-11-08 09:00:00Caesarean sections - part two Nicky Phillips has made this two part feature about caesarean sections. In this second program we take a look at some of the consequences of the operation and we'll meet two mothers who developed serious complications from their caesars.
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Health Report 2009-11-02
Published: 2009-11-01 09:00:00Caesarean sections - part one of a two part feature Caesarean sections are on the rise. In Australia one in three babies are born this way, and once a mother has one caesarean she's got at least a 50% chance of having another one in a following pregnancy. The rising rates have got some people very worried. There can be serious consequences of caesareans, for both mother and baby, and they're not talking about it. In the first of a two part special Nicky Phillips looks at what factors are driving our caesarean rates.
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Health Report 2009-10-26
Published: 2009-10-25 10:00:00Cancer and the use of complementary and alternative medicine Researchers at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne have investigated the use of complementary and alternative medicine amongst cancer patients, with the aim to develop guidelines for oncology health professionals. New ways of treating cancer Scientists at Oxford University are investigating new approaches to treating common cancers. These new therapies come from better understanding of how tumours grow new blood vessels and manage the low levels of oxygen present in tumours. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Inflammatory bowel disease, which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is a chronic condition that can lead to colorectal cancer when left untreated. Dr Sunanda Kane, a gastroenterologist from the Mayo Clinic, has researched this area of medicine and she is particularly interested in women who have IBD.
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