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HealthHits

Dr Tom Fisher

The Health Education and Interest Podcast. A podcast for common health problems. How they develop and how to treat them. As well as exploring health through history.

HealthHits Podcast Guide

Listen to HealthHits, a Science & Medicine podcast by Dr Tom Fisher. Stream 17 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

17 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

17 episodes

Episode 17: Vitamin D

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. Every year, GPs in the UK see hundreds of thousands of exhausted patients, and for some of the...

11:25Jul 23, 2017

Episode 16: Shingles

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. In the last episode we covered chickenpox, that common viral infection, usually caught in chil...

12:21Jun 25, 2017

Episode 15: Chickenpox

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. This week we talk all about that miserable rite of passage that all children in the UK go thro...

16:49May 29, 2017

Episode 14: Hay Fever

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. As Spring and Summer approach the dreaded Hay Fever that affects so many of us raises its head...

17:02May 14, 2017

Episode 13: Florence Nightingale

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. May 12th is International Nurses Day and so we celebrate the mother of modern nursing, who was...

16:22May 3, 2017

Episode 12: Alcohol

This week we are talking about alcohol or ethanol. What it is, where it comes from, and how we use and abuse it. We cover how alcohol is bro...

19:36Apr 24, 2017

Episode 11: Plague

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. This episode is all about Plague. The bacterial infection that caused The Black Death across M...

12:28Apr 3, 2017

Episode 10: Eczema

I'm your host Tom Fisher. I'm a doctor, a trainer, and when researching these podcasts I'm often a student too. Today's episode covers eczem...

10:35Mar 27, 2017

Episode 9: Sepsis

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. This time we are covering the mysterious but often deadly condition of sepsis. Its not an infe...

09:37Mar 20, 2017

Episode 8: Hair Loss

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. This time we'll be learning about hair, why we have it and why we lose it. We'll look at the i...

18:06Mar 13, 2017

Episode 7: VX Nerve Agent

This week's episode doesn't cover the unusual or the bizarre, it covers the truly terrifying. Yes we're talking about the invisible and dead...

12:10Mar 6, 2017

Episode 6: Headache

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. This time we'll be learning about headache, including migraine and the worse type of pain a hu...

13:35Feb 26, 2017

Episode 5: MRI

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. Today we'll be learning about MRI, the magnetic resonance imaging scanners that allow us to se...

12:02Feb 19, 2017

Episode 4: Heart Attack

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. Today we'll be learning about heart attack, how the heart works and some of the pioneers of mo...

14:44Feb 9, 2017

Episode 3: Flu

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. Today we'll be learning about flu, the flu vaccine and talking about a doctor who is credited...

09:27Feb 1, 2017

Episode 2: Blood Pressure

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. Today's episode is all about blood pressure, specifically high blood pressure or hypertension....

09:02Feb 1, 2017

Episode 1: Asthma

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. Today's episode is all about asthma. The podcast covers common medical issues, how they develo...

09:27Feb 1, 2017

Questions About HealthHits

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What is HealthHits about?

HealthHits is listed as a Science & Medicine show. The show language is listed as English.

How many HealthHits episodes are listed?

This page lists 17 episodes for HealthHits.

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Where can I listen to HealthHits?

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What type of podcast is HealthHits?

HealthHits is listed as a Science & Medicine show by Dr Tom Fisher.

How many episodes are available?

This page lists 17 episodes for HealthHits where feed data is available.