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Inside Health: A&E in winter, Fruit juice, Opioid drugs and chronic pain, No evidence, Obesity

06/01/2015

A&E in winter, Fruit juice, Opioid drugs and chronic pain, No evidence, Obesity

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, A&E in winter, Fruit juice, Opioid drugs and chronic pain, No evidence, Obesity

Should fruit juice be dropped from 5-a-day? A&E in winter; Mark visits a busy pain clinic.

Should fruit juice be dropped from five-a-day recommendations? A&E in winter, Mark Porter visits a busy pain clinic, and GP Margaret McCartney outlines her New Year resolutions.

Should fruit juice be dropped from the 5 a day fruit and vegetable recommendations?

A&E in a mild winter - why has the NHS been stretched to near breaking point over the festive period?

Dr Mark Porter visits a busy pain clinic to find out why prescribed opioid painkillers for long term non-cancer pain often do more harm than good.

And resident sceptic and GP Dr Margaret McCartney outlines her New Year resolutions.

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