4 - Fighting, Gene Therapy for Huntington鈥檚 Disease, Plants
Stephen Bailey comes out swinging for fighting, Professor Ed Wild rewrites the future for Huntington's and Professor Alessandra Devoto digs into the healing power of plants.
Joining Kiri Pritchard-McLean this week is comedian Stephen Bailey who explains how fighting transformed his confidence. Professor Ed Wild shares a groundbreaking gene therapy that can treat Huntington's disease for the first time, and Professor Alessandra Devoto explores how plants like basil could help unlock future treatments for liver fibrosis.
Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by a funny and fascinating panel of comedians, doctors, scientists, experts and historians to celebrate medicine's inspiring past, present and future.
Each week Kiri challenges a panel of experts and a comedian to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each guest champions anything from world-changing science or an obscure invention to an everyday treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure.
Whether it鈥檚 groundbreaking surgery, seaweed underwear, AI glasses to help people with dementia, horse therapy, sports, revolutionary gene therapy for Huntington鈥檚 disease or yesterday鈥檚 rubbish becoming tomorrow鈥檚 medicines - it鈥檚 always something worth celebrating.
Hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Featuring: Stephen Bailey, Professor Alessandra Devoto and Professor Ed Wild
Written by 鈥奅dward Easton, Jordan Gray, Frances Keyton, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Ben Rowse and Rhys Thorne
Producer: Tashi Radha
Executive Producer: Ben Worsfield
Theme tune composed by Andrew Jones
A Large Time production for 麻豆社 Radio 4
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Best Medicine
Kiri Pritchard-McLean dissects funny and fascinating medicine with experts and comedians.