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Inside Health: Blood pressure pills and cancer, Aortic aneurysm repair, Sinks and hospital infection

Blood pressure pills and cancer, Aortic aneurysm repair, Sinks and hospital infection

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Blood pressure pills and cancer, Aortic aneurysm repair, Sinks and hospital infection

Blood pressure pills and cancer, aortic aneurysm repair, sinks and hospital infection

The programme gets some clarity behind recent headlines that link cancer to pills for high blood pressure. Plus, how sinks could be causing hospital infections.

Clarity behind recent headlines linking cancer to pills for high blood pressure; Margaret McCartney unpicks the numbers. And the aorta is the largest artery in the body so should it burst due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm, results can be catastrophic. Now Surgeons are concerned that restricting the use of the latest keyhole techniques to repair aneurysms would be a backward step and harm patients.  Plus how sinks could be causing hospital infections.

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