Answers to Medicine Questions

Why is the number needed so high?

Listener Alice has already been infected with the coronavirus. What happens if she is exposed to it again?

Do we all have the same number of nerve endings, regardless of body size?

Do we really need an appendix?

Everyone has gut bacteria that keep them healthy. How do babies get them if they're born by caesarian section?

Or is the idea all smoke and mirrors?

Would this protect communities where the coronavirus hasn't yet established?

Are the victims younger? Or have they maybe developed antibodies?

Listener Lorna had this query about her own cancer treatment...

Does a bigger dog have a bigger brain?

Will it sterilise the sponge?

What are the tried and true methods?

How does somthing like that get going?

Why was cyanide Agatha Christie's poison of choice?

Why don't we use MRIs to diagnose depression?

Why do some people sneeze when they eat dark chocolate?

DNA mutates all that time, so what's to stop it affecting an important part of our biology?

Do hairs grow out grey, or do hairs that had colour eventually turn grey?

How does cancer evade the immune system?

Why are we focused on pigs?

How long can we keep hearts alive outside of the body?

What actually is a calorie...

What makes our own cells safe from antibiotics?