Belinda Smith

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2,440 appearances 25 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Health Report · Could a sleep supplement help reduce chronic pain? · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

They'd like to do a bigger study, but there's also been suggestions to make the black triangle a little more obvious, maybe bigger, maybe colour it, I don't know, red or something a bit more eye-catching.

Pulsating red, I think it used to be.

Yeah, fluorescent orange.

And just to raise awareness that, yeah, if you do have a side effect and you're taking one of these new or repurposed medicines, that you should report that side effect.

Well, I got interested in the bacterium that causes Streptococcus pneumoniae, I think.

So there's something like 95 strains of this bacterium and the vaccines cover 20 or 21 strains.

It is a very serious moment and I wonder if there'll be many more moments like this coming up with more companies maybe withdrawing their drugs from Australia because of this policy that Trump's put in place.

And Norman, we did approach Invidior, which is the drug company that makes Sublocade, and they did confirm that it was a commercial decision to discontinue the marketing and sale of Sublocade in Australia.

We'll put their full statement in the show notes.

Gosh, and your sleep as well?

So what is it about having bad sleep that would make pain worse?

What chronic pain disorders seem to benefit the most from melatonin?

So you've found maybe a modest benefit, but there are still loads of questions to be answered.

What's next in terms of research to perhaps steer this towards a more like clinically relevant approach?

And on ABC Radio National, you're with The Health Report.

Norman, this next story is a bit of a personal one for me.

I'm in the process of being diagnosed with celiac disease or not.

So I had low iron last year and my GP, being a good GP, said, we need to figure out why your iron is so low.

And another blood test showed that I had the antibodies to gluten.

And so while I'm waiting for a gastroscopy to confirm or, you know...

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