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In this episode, the team explore the new era of personal medicine. With people taking ever bigger roles in their own health care, for the first time you can be in the driving seat when it comes to... medicine. Maggie Philbin explores the rise of online diagnosis tools, putting them to the test against a real doctor, and also reports on the revolution in personally tailored medicine that is giving new life to young asthma sufferers; Jem Stansfield tests out the very latest in self-monitoring gadgets as he investigates the world of self-tracking; while Liz Bonnin finds out how a rare genetic condition that causes blindness can be corrected by a new technique that actually alters your genes.
In this episode, the team explore the new era of personal medicine. With people taking ever bigger roles in their own health care, for the first time you can be in the driving seat when it comes to... medicine. Maggie Philbin explores the rise of online diagnosis tools, putting them to the test against a real doctor, and also reports on the revolution in personally tailored medicine that is giving new life to young asthma sufferers; Jem Stansfield tests out the very latest in self-monitoring gadgets as he investigates the world of self-tracking; while Liz Bonnin finds out how a rare genetic condition that causes blindness can be corrected by a new technique that actually alters your genes.
| Series: | Bang goes the theory; Series 7 |
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| Episode | 7 |
| First transmission date: | 22-04-2013 |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 00:30:00 |
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| Producer: | Paul King |
| Presenters: | Liz Bonnin; Maggie Philbin; Jem Stansfield |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lwxj1 OU Website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/bang-goes-the-theory-series-7-episode-7 |
| Master spool number: | HDS135275 |
| Production number: | FKAP881J |
| Videofinder number: | 83939 |
| Available to public: | no |
