Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and optimised for iPhone 5. Available for Android 2.3 and above on Google Play. Free www.azumio.com/apps/heart-rate This popular heart rate app needs no external hardware, such as a heart rate monitor, to record your pulse, track your heart rate and optimise any exercise training. The app is quick and easy to use, thanks to the clear onscreen interface. Once opened, users simply place a finger gently on the camera lens of their phone. The app measures the change in fingertip colour as vessels distend and contract after each heartbeat. As the measurement is being taken, the screen shows a real-time photoplethysmogram volumetric graph and the app beeps with the pulse. Developer Azumio Inc describes the app as ‘the most accurate heart rate monitor application’, and many millions of users have downloaded it. Results are displayed in an easy to understand graphic with the opportunity to store, share or discard the recordings. I recommend it to everyone who undertakes physical exercise on a regular basis. Oliver McGurk is a medical science undergraduate at the University of Birmingham
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PICK OF THE WEEK
HORIZON – IS YOUR BRAIN MALE OR FEMALE?
Monday September 29, BBC 2, 9-10pm Alice Roberts (pictured), professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, joins presenter Michael Mosley to find out if male and female brains are wired differently. The neural networks in male and female brains appear to follow different patterns that may help to explain typical forms of our behaviour. Are we born with these differences, or are they shaped by the world around us? MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30
Inside Out
Inside Health
BBC 1, 7.30-8pm Reporter Mark Jordan joins paramedics in London to discover why the survival rates for cardiac arrest are so variable across the capital.
BBC Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Mark Porter continues his quest to demystify health issues.
Inside the Ebola Lock-Down BBC Radio 4, 8-8.30pm Investigative journalist Tim Mansel travels to Sierra Leone to see the preparations for a three-day lockdown to counter Ebola virus disease.
The Life Scientific BBC Radio 4, 9.30-10pm Professor of explosive chemistry Jackie Akhavan talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ethical issues of working on explosives used in war. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1
Junior Paramedics
999 – What’s Your Emergency?
BBC 3, 8-9pm This series follows nine student paramedics on their first placement with the East Midlands Ambulance Service. Now in their second week of training, the pressure increases.
Channel 4, 11.05pm-Midnight Paramedics in Blackpool deal with incidents involving the town’s visitors.
Born Asleep
BBC 3, 9-10pm Midwives are called in to help first-time fathers-to-be. Teenager Gary is hooked on gaming, while marine Martin is struggling to connect with his partner’s baby bump.
BBC 1, 8.30-9pm More than 4,000 babies are stillborn in the UK every year – one of the worst rates in the developed world. Panorama’s Paul Kenyon meets the clinicians who say they could save hundreds of lives a year, with inexpensive and simple interventions.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2
Don’t Drop the Baby
One Born Every Minute USA
Horizon – Is your Brain Male or Female?
Channel 4, 12.50-1.45am In a Columbus, Ohio, maternity unit, a mother-to-be considers changing her decision to have a natural birth.
BBC 2, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week
Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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Find more online Book club discounts
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Read reviews online
The Nursing Standard website has an online archive of book reviews: http://rcnpublishing.com/page/ns/ resources/book-reviews
The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio BBC
Instant Heart Rate app
PICK OF THE WEEK
HORIZON – IS YOUR BRAIN MALE OR FEMALE?
Monday September 29, BBC 2, 9-10pm Alice Roberts (pictured), professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, joins presenter Michael Mosley to find out if male and female brains are wired differently. The neural networks in male and female brains appear to follow different patterns that may help to explain typical forms of our behaviour. Are we born with these differences, or are they shaped by the world around us? MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30
Inside Out
Inside Health
BBC 1, 7.30-8pm Reporter Mark Jordan joins paramedics in London to discover why the survival rates for cardiac arrest are so variable across the capital.
BBC Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Mark Porter continues his quest to demystify health issues.
Inside the Ebola Lock-Down BBC Radio 4, 8-8.30pm Investigative journalist Tim Mansel travels to Sierra Leone to see the preparations for a three-day lockdown to counter Ebola virus disease.
The Life Scientific BBC Radio 4, 9.30-10pm Professor of explosive chemistry Jackie Akhavan talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ethical issues of working on explosives used in war. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1
Junior Paramedics
999 – What’s Your Emergency?
BBC 3, 8-9pm This series follows nine student paramedics on their first placement with the East Midlands Ambulance Service. Now in their second week of training, the pressure increases.
Channel 4, 11.05pm-Midnight Paramedics in Blackpool deal with incidents involving the town’s visitors.
Born Asleep
BBC 3, 9-10pm Midwives are called in to help first-time fathers-to-be. Teenager Gary is hooked on gaming, while marine Martin is struggling to connect with his partner’s baby bump.
BBC 1, 8.30-9pm More than 4,000 babies are stillborn in the UK every year – one of the worst rates in the developed world. Panorama’s Paul Kenyon meets the clinicians who say they could save hundreds of lives a year, with inexpensive and simple interventions.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2
Don’t Drop the Baby
One Born Every Minute USA
Horizon – Is your Brain Male or Female?
Channel 4, 12.50-1.45am In a Columbus, Ohio, maternity unit, a mother-to-be considers changing her decision to have a natural birth.
BBC 2, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week
Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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