How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill?

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 11:29 a.m.

As the nights draw in and the spluttering sounds of coughs and colds seem to be all around us, presenter James Gallagher is getting ahead this year and stocking up his medicine cabinet. He gets some help from Inside Health\u2019s resident GP Margaret McCartney and virologist Lindsay Broadbent from the University of Surrey to take look at a few of the nation\u2019s best-loved remedies and find out what they will actually do to help him when he, inevitably, gets ill.

Presenter: James Gallagher

Speakers:\nDr Margaret McCartney, GP and expert in evidence-based medicine\nDr Lindsay Broadbent, Lecturer in Virology at the University of Surrey\nReshma Malde, Superintendent Pharmacist, John Bell & Croyden

Producer: Tom Bonnett