The Happy Pod: The 'privilege' of helping brain tumour patients
This episode of The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service highlights uplifting global stories of medical innovation, human kindness, and youthful achievement, centered on a rapid brain tumour diagnostic test, a life-saving kidney donation sparked by social media, and a six-year-old girl br
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