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Series that demystifies health issues, bringing clarity to conflicting advice.

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

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Inside Health: 'SARS-like' virus, reflux heartburn, corrective baby helmets

25/09/2012

'SARS-like' virus, reflux heartburn, corrective baby helmets

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, 'SARS-like' virus, reflux heartburn, corrective baby helmets

Dr Mark Porter asks whether headlines identifying a 'SARS-like' virus may cause panic.

Dr Mark Porter asks whether headlines identifying a 'SARS-like' virus may cause unnecessary alarm, and should you be worried about the shape of your baby's head?

In Inside Health this week Dr Mark Porter asks whether headlines identifying a 'SARS Like' virus may cause unnecessary alarm. While this new virus and SARS are both members of the same family, virologist John Oxford explains that they are more like cousins that behave differently. 

And should you be worried about the shape of your baby's head? Lots of parents are. Margaret McCartney questions the growing trend for corrective helmets to treat so called 'flat head syndrome'.

Plus Mark Porter visits the first NHS hospital to offer a new approach to treating heartburn.

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