The Happy Pod: The 'privilege' of helping brain tumour patients artwork
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The Happy Pod: The 'privilege' of helping brain tumour patients

Sep 26, 2026 · 25 min

A rapid new test for brain tumours is taking diagnosis time from weeks to hours. It means patients are spared weeks of uncertainty and can start treatment sooner. The Happy Pod speaks to the doctors behind this breakthrough, who say it's a "privilege" to be developing something that can help people. Also, a baby has been born on one of the most remote and northernly Scottish islands for the first…