2025-09-27
27 分钟This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, and in this edition...
I actually feel quite emotional
because people with Huntington's disease are desperate for some kind of treatment that works.
Scientists and patients talk of their joy at the discovery of the first-ever treatment for the devastating inherited disease,
Huntington's.
Also, we speak to a teacher trying to change her pupils' lives with a happiness project.
Math is very important, writing and reading is very important,
but what I want for my students when they grow up is I want them to be happy.
The simple steps bringing a sense of community to a vast housing complex in Mumbai.
All my life I never had friends, but talking to these women is broadened my perspective.
and really made a huge change in how I look at my life.
And... A new way to add poetry to your life.
We start with a medical breakthrough,
the first successful treatment for the devastating brain condition Huntingdon's.
This is an inherited disease caused by an altered gene being passed from a parent to a child.
It results in damage to certain parts of the brain and resembles a combination of dementia,
Parkinson's and motor neurone disease.
As you may have heard in our Global News podcast,
scientists have found a way to slow its progression by 75%.