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Inside Health: Prescription Charges; Acute Kidney Injury; MMR vaccine; Meningitis in Students

Prescription Charges; Acute Kidney Injury; MMR vaccine; Meningitis in Students

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Prescription Charges; Acute Kidney Injury; MMR vaccine; Meningitis in Students

Prescription charges; Acute Kidney Injury; would making MMR mandatory improve uptake? Margaret McCartney examines the evidence. And protecting students against meningitis.

Why aren't prescription charges free across the whole of the UK? Acute Kidney Injury has shot up the NHS agenda in the last decade. Mark Porter visits Derby Royal Hospital to find out why kidney problems are so common and discovers what's been done to prevent damage to an organ many of us take for granted. Plus the World Health Organisation has removed the UK's measles free status because too few children are being immunised.  Could making the vaccine mandatory be the answer? Margaret McCartney examines the evidence. And as the academic term gets underway Inside Health learns of a novel method to help with the prevention of meningitis amongst university students who are at risk of the disease.

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