Norman Swan
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4,170 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Lauren, the next news story revolves around dementia and a blood test that we've covered previously on the health report quite recently, actually.
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patient.
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Just to be clear, we're talking about the phosphorylated tau protein.
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That's the one that we've been covered on the health report recently.
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And it's part of, as you say, that holistic, the history, other investigations.
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It's a part of the diagnostic picture.
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And I think it's important you've just said that.
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you know, people get quite nervous, understandably, about cognitive impairment, dementia.
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So this is really targeting a very vulnerable group of people.
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And I saw in the discussion about this paper, someone, one of the experts said, like a lot of stuff on social media, and this is a very loose kind of description of the quote, but the excitement can outpace the evidence.
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And we see this so often, Lauren, where there's something new that comes out in the medical field and, you know, the researchers, the health professionals, the entire profession says, with caution, this is the only time it can be used.
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But you see people just run with it on social media and it can potentially cause harm.
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So I think it's a very important story.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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On ABC Radio National, you're with The Health Report.
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Lauren, several weeks ago, we did a story looking at GLP-1 or weight loss medications being prescribed by telehealth clinics in people with a pre-existing eating disorder.
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And it was really a story.
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We had Kate, a case study who very generously shared her experience.
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She had a pre-existing diagnosis of anorexia nervosa.
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