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Medical Minute with Jeremy Kenton 06 02 20
Jan 13, 2025
Medical Minute with Jeremy Kenton 06 02 20 Hear it live on Dougie's show every Thursday at 14:40 CET
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I'm Jeremy Kenton opioid painkillers do
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not work for 9 out of 10 people with
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chronic pain health experts of now being
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warning 5.6 million people in the UK are
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on opioids every day but with the effect
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especially for those with long-term
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debilitating pain being relatively
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ineffective various studies by pain
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experts show that these medications are
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virtually ineffective and there are
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calls for reducing the prescription of
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opioids by GPS because their
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ineffectiveness and also their risk of
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addiction and of course coronavirus is
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still very much in the news now with the
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total number of deaths in China of 563
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and one death in the Philippines but we
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had to put this in perspective in that
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in January throughout the world there
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have already been over 25,000 deaths
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from normal flu and whereas the
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mortality rate for flu is high the
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mortality rate is showing for
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coronavirus at only 3% and today there
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has been confirmation of a child case a
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newborn baby
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at the age of 30 hours was tested for
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coronavirus and showed to be positive
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but but that once again in perspective
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the child was born to a corona virus
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positive mother the number of cases
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through world now is showing is
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Australia at 14 Belgium one Cambodia one
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Canada five in them one France six
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Germany 12 mostly in the Bavarian region
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Hongkong 21 with one death India three
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cases Italy two cases Japan 25 on the
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Japanese islands but with 20 confirmed
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cases on board a cruise ship which is
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now in quarantine Macau ten Malaysia
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12 Nepal one the Philippines three with
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one death Russia two cases Singapore 28
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cases
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south korea 23 spain 1k sri lanka one
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case sweden one case taiwan 13 cases
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thailand 25 cases the USA five cases the
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UK two cases vietnam ten cases and the
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total number of deaths so far at 563 in
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china with over 28,000 confirmed cases
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in china but once again to put things in
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perspective the overall number of cases
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throughout the world all linked directly
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to people who have traveled to these
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parent countries from the china
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especially the Wolfhound district but to
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put it in perspective flu is far more of
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a risk
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and finally alcohol-related NHS
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admissions have risen by sixty percent
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in the last ten years last year alone
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2019 saw 1.3 million people admitted to
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hospital with alcoholism as a primary or
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secondary diagnosis and half of these
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cases aged between 55 and 74 are often
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related to drinking home alone and
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linked to depression and loneliness and
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there is a strong link between isolation
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being unable to cope and health experts
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are calling for an increase in taxation
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on alcohol
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