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Inside Health: Covid waves, Gene therapy for haemophilia B, New uses for old drugs

Covid waves, Gene therapy for haemophilia B, New uses for old drugs

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Covid waves, Gene therapy for haemophilia B, New uses for old drugs

Smitha Mundasad asks what Covid will be like in the future, and  new uses for old drugs.

Smitha Mundasad asks what Covid will be like in the future. Will we keep having waves of infection? Side effects of drugs can be useful and give clues to new uses.

Smitha Mundasad asks whether we will see waves of Covid – with infections going up and down and then up and down again - forever more. We speak to Elliot whose life has been transformed after a single shot of gene therapy to treat the inherited blood disorder haemophilia B. And Dr Margaret McCartney discusses the accidental discovery of Viagra and how sometimes researchers find new, surprising uses for old medicines.

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