Healthcare, Reinvented: How Dramatic Medical Breakthroughs Are Quietly Changing Your Life (Professor Sir John Bell)
5/28/202653 min
This week, John Burn-Murdoch sits in for Amol to speak to Professor Sir John Bell, one of Britain’s leading medical scientists, about the huge (and often undiscussed) medical breakthroughs changing how we live, age and die. Medical advances have already added 12 years to average life expectancy in the UK in the last 50 years. But the next revolution may be even more radical: earlier cancer detection, personalised vaccines, obesity drugs, AI-driven prevention and treatments that could keep us healthier for longer. But with the science and technology moving this fast, can the health service, the economy, and the public keep up?
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First 90 secondsJohn Burn-Murdoch· Host0:00
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Amol Rajan· Host1:06
I am back, or at least I will be very, very soon. Look, just before you hear this episode, which was fronted not by me, but by the brilliant John Burn-Murdoch from the Financial Times, one of the preeminent data journalists of our age, I wanted to tell you about a guest we've got coming up on Radical called Ben Cohen. He's a rather famous Ben because he opened an ice cream shop