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The BMJ Podcast

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.

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00:28:33

Safeguarding LGBT+ young people

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/02/15

Recent years have seen political and social progress for people who identify as LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender; the “+” indicating inclusion of other minority sexual and gender identities). Yet international evidence shows ongoing health and social inequalities in this group, many of which emerge during adolescence and represent unique safeguarding risks. In this podcast, Kate Addlington, psychiatry trainee and associate editor at The BMJ is joined by Ginger Drage, expert patient

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00:21:04

Should we be screening for AF?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/02/14

Current evidence is sufficient to justify a national screening programme, argues Mark Lown clinical lecturer at the University of Southampton, but Patrick Moran, senior research fellow in health economics at Trinity College Dublin, thinks there are too many unanswered questions and evidence from randomised trials is needed to avoid overdiagnosis Read the full debate: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l43

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00:36:29

Chronic Rhinosinusitis

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/02/08

Patients who experience chronic rhinosinusitis may way for a considerable period of time before presenting, because they believe the condition to be trivial. In this podcast, Alam Hannan, ENT Consultant at the Royal Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in London, explains why that belief is not founded, and describes which treatments can be effective at providing relief.

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00:29:21

Assisted dying: should doctors help patients to die?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/02/04

The Royal College of Physicians will survey all its members in February on this most controversial question. It says that it will move from opposition to neutrality on assisted dying unless 60% vote otherwise. The BMJ explores several conflicting views. From Canada, palliative care doctor Sandy Buchman explains why he sees medical aid in dying as a compassionate treatment that fully respects patient autonomy. The Canadian Medical Association is neutral on the issue, and Jeff Blackmer, its vice

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01:06:32

HIV - everything you wanted to know about PeP and PreP

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/02/01

We have had two articles published recently on bmj.com, looking at drug prevention of HIV; PeP - Post-exposure Prophylaxis and PreP - Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, neither prevent the virus from entering the body, but they do prevent the infection from taking hold. There are lots of questions that doctors have about these - what are the risk profiles of patients who should be offered the treatments? How can they be prescribed? What are the side effects? And if you're in England, where PreP is not yet

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00:16:08

Goran Henriks - How an 80 year old woman called...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/01/25

Jönköping has been at the centre of the healthcare quality improvement movement for years - but how did a forested region of Sweden, situated between it's main cities, come to embrace the philosophy of improvement so fervently? Goran Henriks, chief executive of learning and innovation at Qulturum in Jönköping joins us to explain. He also tells us about Esther, and why she figures so centrally in their planning.

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00:36:23

Talk evidence - TIAs, aging in Japan and women in...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/01/23

In this EBM round-up, Carl Heneghan, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are back to give you an update Dual vs single therapy for prevention of TIA or minor stroke - how does the advice that dual work better translate in the UK? Carl explains why Japan can teach us to get active and, how GPs can use that information to "drop a decade" in aging. Finally, Helen took some time to relax over Christmas - until she read a story in the Christmas edition about gender discrimination in medicine, and it

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00:22:57

Terence Stephenson - looking back at chairing the GMC

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/01/18

Terence Stephenson is a consultant paediatrician who became been chair of the General Medical Council in 2015. His 4 year tenure has now come to an end, but during his time with the regulator the medical profession faced a number of challenges - the case of Hadiza Bawa Garba and a growing recruitment crisis in the NHS - the GMC is the gatekeeper for foreign doctors who who wish to work here. As the rules on EU doctors change, the GMC’s regulatory practice may have to change too. In this podcast,

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00:24:49

How Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/01/09

Susan Greenhalg is a research professor of chinese society in Harvard’s department of anthropology - not a natural fit for a medical journal you may think, but recently she has been looking at the influence of Coca Cola on obesity policy in China. She has written up her investigation in an article published on bmj.com this week, and joins us in the podcast to talk about why a communist country would embrace a message from an icon of capitalism, and what attitudes toward financial conflicts of

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00:35:32

Coding at Christmas

The BMJ Podcast ·

2019/01/04

For many of you Christmas is over and, you’re back to work. Admin piled up over christmas? Feeling resentful for all those forms, and the weird codes they make you put in them? In this podcast I hope we can explain why that’s important, with 17th century death, the esoteria of reed codes, and why the WHO cares about spaceship accidents. Consumption, flux, and dropsy: counting deaths in 17th century London https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5014 Christmas guide to clinical

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00:41:32

Women in medicine at Christmas

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/12/21

2018 will go down in history as a year of reckoning as the year that that some men’s behaviour came back to bite them. The continuing impact of #MeToo across the world has prompted another round of thinking about women’s experiences in medicine, which can be seen this year’s christmas journal In this podcast, Esther Choo and Eleni Lenos, join us to discuss their research into mother's experiences of being doctors - and how discrimination is still rife against them. Also Sarah Lowry, from the Royal

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00:34:52

Christmas Food 2018

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/12/16

the Christmas BMJ season is upon us - if you’re to go to our website now, you’ll see that it’s been a bumper year. In the podcast, we’re going to be bringing you a select few - we’ll be looking at motherhood. Trying to figure out what 17th Century causes of death were, and - as it’s christmas - in this pod we’ll be looking at food. We talk to Frances Mason and Amanda Farley, from the University of Birmingham, about their RCT examining the “Effectiveness of a brief behavioural intervention to

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00:35:44

Talk Evidence - Devices and facebook vaccines

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/12/12

In the second of our EBM round-ups, Carl Heneghan, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Deborah Cohen, investigative journalist and scourge of device manufacturers. We're giving our verdict on the sensitivity and specificity of ketone testing for hyperemesis, and the advice to drinking more water to prevent recurrent UTIs in women. Deb joins us to talk about the massive, international, investigation into failing regulation for implantable devices - and shares some of the stories

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00:45:57

Making multisectoral collaboration work

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/12/07

A new collection of articles published by The BMJ includes twelve country case studies, each an evaluation of multisectoral collaboration in action at scale on women’s, children’s, and adolescent’s health. Collectively these twelve studies inform an overarching synthesis and accompanying commentaries, drawing together lessons learned in achieving effective multisectoral collaboration. In this podcast, Wendy Graham, professor of obstetric epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

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00:32:02

Trojan Milk

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/12/06

Infant formula manufacturers were made pariah in the 70s, because of their marketing practices - this lead to “The Code”, adopted by the WHO, which set out clear guidelines about what those practices should be. Now an investigation on bmj.com by Chris Van Tulleken, honorary senior lecturer at University College London, examines the practices associated with the marketing of specialist milk formula for children with cow’s milk protein allergy, and asks whether doctors organisations should be

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00:49:02

The bone crushing nausea of hyperemesis

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/12/01

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy affects around 70% of pregnancies. It is mild for around 40% of women, moderate for 46%, and severe for 14%. By contrast, hyperemesis gravidarum is a complication of pregnancy rather than a normal part of it and occurs in around 1.5% of pregnancies. The psychosocial burden of HG can be heavy for women and their families. In this podcast, Caitlin Dean Phd Candidate, Gillian Ostrowski, general practitioner, Rebecca C Painter, consultant obstetrician join us to

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00:45:55

God is in Operating Room 4

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/11/27

Healthy self confidence has an important role in surgery, but what came first - the surgeon or the ego? In this conversation, Christopher Myers, Yemeng Lu-Myers, and Amir Ghaferi join us to talk about the (very few) surgeons who behave badly in theatre, and why that behaviour has persisted, and can be detrimental. Read their full analysis: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4537

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00:27:56

Carers need a voice in the NHS

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/11/23

Until recently, The BMJ had a campaign of patient partnership - now we have a patient and public partnership campaign. The reason for that change is that medicine has an effect beyond the individual being treated - and this podcast interview is a very good example of that. Anya De Iong, patient editor for The BMJ, talks to Christine Morgan - independent chair of the Greater Manchester Carers Strategic Group. Christine has a mission to bring the needs of carers into thinking and planning about the

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00:25:55

Acceptable, tolerable, manageable - but not to...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/11/19

You’ll have read in a clinical trial “Most patients had an acceptable adverse-event profile.” Or that a drug “has a manageable and mostly reversible safety profile.” And that “the tolerability was good overall.” In this podcast, Bishal Gyawali (@oncology_bg) joins us to describe what events those terms were actually describing in cancer drug trials, and how they reduce the readers appreciation of the adverse effects of these novel drugs. Read the full

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00:41:05

Talk evidence - Vitamin D, Oxygen and ethics

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/11/16

Welcome to this, trial run, of a new kind of BMJ podcast - here we’re going to be focusing on all things EBM. Duncan Jarvies, Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan - and occasional guests- will be back every month to discuss what's been happening in the world of evidence. We'll bring you our Verdict on what you should start or stop doing, geek out about stats, and rant about the unevidence based world in which we live. This week we talk about: Vitamin

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