Health Report - Full program podcast

Travel bans, coronavirus and intensive care, and tracking the virus

The intersection of human societies, agricultural and wild animals ensures that new diseases — sometimes devastatingly infectious — spring up again and again.

To fight coronavirus, look to pandemics past

Coronacast is a daily podcast that's all about answering your coronavirus questions, hosted by Dr Norman Swan and Tegan Taylor. On the show today — what's going on in Italy and what are the chances mass quarantine will work? Does air travel increase the risk of getting infected? And how does the COVID-19 testing process work?

Coronavirus — what's going on in Italy?

Polycystic ovary syndrome, women's health and religious freedom, and building better cancer treatments

Containing coronavirus in Australia, anti-psychotics in aged care, opioids for chronic pain and left-digit bias

New coronavirus outbreaks have sprung up outside of China

A coronavirus tipping point, antibiotics in pregnancy, broken legs and heart health risks

A $25,000 checkup, wheat sensitivity, rogue cells and 'Trexit'

Lung cancer killed about 9,000 Australians last year

Soccer headers and memory, unplanned hospital admissions, chronic illness and school and lung cancer screening

Your questions on the novel coronavirus, answered

Coronavirus — how bad is it and how do we stop it?

How does early life deprivation influence brain development?

Extreme deprivation in early life and brain development, and ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment

Does bushfire smoke affect a young child's health?

Babies and bushfire smoke, reducing pre-term births, AI and brain tumours, and paying for plasma donations

Sudden deafness may be more common than we think

Faecal incontinence and sudden deafness

Holiday season got you feeling unfit? We're here to help.

Training your brain and body

New technologies allow for personalised medicine

Personalised medicine — hope or hype?

Gene therapies have revolutionised some aspects of medicine, but they can come at a high price

Gene editing our way to better health?

The Health Report appeals to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts. One audio file of each program for continuous listening.

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Health Report - Full program podcast

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