Helena Burke
speaker
710 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Helena Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
How German charity is tackling drownings.
She would tell the child that it's very important.
also in this podcast.
The story of a blind man who's become a champion of the boxing ring.
And cats rolling down hills in barrels and bringing religion to Martians.
The true story of an unusual space program comes to the stage.
We start with a truly remarkable surgical breakthrough.
He's a little miracle, isn't he?
There's your smile.
That's five-month-old Theo and his mum Maisie Savage, who underwent pioneering surgery while he was still in the womb.
Twenty weeks into the pregnancy, Maisie and her partner Josh French were told parts of Theo's bowels and intestines were growing outside his body, a potentially life-threatening condition.
But, as you may have heard on the Global News podcast, the couple from London were offered the chance to travel to Texas, where surgeons had been developing a way to fix the problem before birth.
Dr Michael Belfour, who performed the operation, believes the technique could be used to treat many other medical issues.
I do think that fetal surgery is coming into its own now, so this kind of operation will become more common.
We're certainly waiting for the final results of this trial, but the initial results are really encouraging.
Clearly, you will need
specialized fetal centers.
But the technique that we pioneered at Texas Children's Hospital is now being used all over the world for spinal bifida surgery.
And I think once we prove that this is a new surgery that can be done in the same way, it will spread rapidly.
It is such an amazing joy to me.
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