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	Podcast:		Health Check
	Episode:		Do You Use Your Phone in the Night?
	Category:		Health
	Duration:		00:27:52
	Publish Date:		2019-02-06 15:00:00
	Description:		Epidemiologists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have been investigating whether phones in the bedroom might affect people’s health by keeping them awake, waking them up or affecting the quality of their sleep. Inspired by the BBC Loneliness Experiment, which had many thousands of participants, researchers turned to Radio Denmark to help gather their data. They had a fantastic response and 25,000 Radio Denmark listeners took part in this SleepSmart study. Naja Hulvej Rod, Professor of Stress Epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen, came into the Health Check studio to tell Claudia about the results. Because haemophilia is one of the most expensive conditions to treat, where you are born affects survival rates. Life expectancies in Western Europe and North America have crept up from approximately 20 years in the 1950s to approaching normal today. In the Western world, hemophiliacs can lead relatively normal lives and even if they get a cut, it can be well managed, due mainly to the availability of preventative transfusions of clotting factors a few times a week. This means they can lead relatively normal lives and even if they get a cut, it can be well managed. However 60 per cent of an estimated 475,000 haemophiliacs globally are undiagnosed and around three quarters of them have little or no access to these medicines because they are completely unaffordable. In Kenya, a lack of knowledge and resources to treat haemophilia perpetuates myths and stigma, while the crippling cost of treatment or physically disabling effects of untreated bleeds keeps sufferers hidden. But a small band of haemophilia champions are fighting to bring about big change. Hannah McNeish reports from Muranga, a small town in central Kenya. It has long been known that people who exercise a lot have a lower risk of developing dementia later in life. But now new research suggests that aerobic exercise e.g. running, cycling and swimming, could also improve executive function in younger people. The research was conducted by Yaakov Stern, Professor of Neuropsychology at Columbia University Medical Centre, and has recently been published in the journal Neurology. (Photo caption: A young man checking his smartphone in bed - credit: Getty Images) Health Check was presented by Claudia Hammond with comments from family doctor Ann Robinson. Producer: Helena Selby
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