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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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01:02:31

Doctors and vets working together for antibiotic...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/07/13

Doctors and the farming industry are often blamed for overuse of antibiotics that spurs the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance - but the professions are using different methods to combat resistance and reduce overuse. In this roundtable, we bring medics and vets together to discuss the problem - where antibiotic resistance arises, how resistance genes propagate through the environment and between countries, and what non-drug approaches can be used to reduce the need for

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00:17:49

What does the public think of the NHS?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/07/12

It’s been quite a year for the NHS - it just turned 70, had a winter crisis like never before, got over junior doctor strikes, but then was hit by a series of scandals about breast screening, and now opiate prescriptions. At the same time, we’ve seen demonstrations in favour of the service and even widespread public backing for more money. So how do all of these things mix into the way in which the British public view the NHS? In this podcast, Ben Page - chief exec of Ipsos MORI, the polling

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00:16:16

Your recommended dose of Ray Moynihan

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/06/28

Ray Moynihan is a senior research assistant at Bond University, a journalist, champion of rolling back too much medicine, and host of a new series “The Recommended Dose” from Cochrane Australia. In the series, Ray has talked to some of the people who shape the medical evidence that underpin healthcare around the world - the series aim is to elucidating their worldview, and how their thinking shapes their work. Over the next couple of months, we’ll be co-publishing the series - so keep an ear out

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00:28:59

Evidence in a humanitarian emergency

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/06/25

At evidence live this year, one of the sessions was about the work of Evidence Aid - and their attempt to bring high quality evidence to the frontline of a humanitarian crisis. In that situation, it’s very difficult to know what will work - a conflict, or even immediately post-conflict situation is characterised by chaos - and merely doing something is vital. But though each situation is unique, sharing what’s worked elsewhere can be key to maximising the help given to vulnerable people.

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00:32:24

When an investigative journalist calls

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/06/22

At Evidence Live this year, the focus of the conference was on communication of evidence - both academically, and to the public. And part of that is the role that investigative journalism has to play in that. At the BMJ we’ve used investigative journalistic techniques to try and expose wrong doing on the part of government and industry - always in collaboration with clinicians and researchers. To explain a bit more about the world of journalism and campaigning, we're joined by to Shelley Jofre -

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00:28:57

Darknet Opioids

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/06/15

When tackling societal problems - like the opioid epidemic in the US - there are two ways of approaching it. One is to reduce demand - by organising treatment programmes, or reducing the underlying reasons why people may become addicted in the first place - but that’s hard. So governments often turn to the other route - reducing supply - and that’s what the US government did in 2014 when it rescheduled oxycodone combination products from schedule 3 to schedual 2 - essentially making it harder for

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00:48:05

Ashish Jha tries to see the world as it is.

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/06/08

There’s a lot going on in the world at the moment - Ebola’s back, Puerto Rico is without power and the official estimations of death following the hurricane are being challenged. The WHO’s just met to decide what to do about it all, as well as sorting out universal healthcare, access to medicines, eradicating polio, etc etc. To make sense of that a little, we grabbed Ashish Jha - Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute to shed some light into how decisions about global health are made, and

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00:16:41

New antivirals for Hepatitis C - what does the...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/05/12

There’s been a lot of attention given to the new antirviral drugs which target Hepatitis C - partly because of the burden of infection of the disease, and the lack of a treatment that can be made easily accessible to around the world, and partly because of the incredible cost of a course of treatment. But a new article on BMJ talks about the uncertainly of that treatment - do we know that the drugs actually clear a HepC infection, and that this will lead to a corresponding decrease in mortality and

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00:19:47

Big Metadata

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/05/04

We’re in an era of big data - and hospitals and GPs are generating an inordinate amount of it that has potential to improve everyone’s health. But only if it’s used properly. New research published on www.bmj.com this week describes another set of information, about that data, that the authors believe could be just as important as the data itself. Griffin weber, and Isaac Kohane, from the Department of Biomedical informatics at Harvard medical school join us to discuss. Read the full

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00:35:18

Can we regulate intellectual interests like financial...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/04/13

We talk about financial conflicts of interest a lot atThe BMJ - and have take taken the decision that our educational content should be without them. We also talk a lot about non-financial conflicts of interest, but the choppy waters of those are much more difficult to navigate. In this podcast, we discuss whether we should, or if we could even could, make people’s intellectual positions transparent. Arguing that it’s important to tackle this issue, are Wendy Lipworth and Ian Kerridge from

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00:18:56

How to stop generic drug price hikes (or at least...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/03/23

Ravi Gupta, is a resident in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore - and as he said has seen the influence of sudden price hikes on his patients - between 2010 and 2015 more than 300 drugs in the U.S. have seen sudden increases of over %100. Ravi and his co-authors have suggested, and tested the feasibility of, a possible answer to those price hikes - a small tweak that should protect patients from the possibility that they’ll suddenly be unable to afford their essential medication. Read

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00:27:48

Katherine Cowan - Reaching A Priority

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/03/02

Its now widely agreed that one of the key ways of reducing the current high level of "waste " in biomedical research is to focus it more squarely on addressing the questions that matter to patients - and the people and medical staff that care for them. In this interview, Tessa Richards - the BMJ's patient partnership editor, talks to Katherine Cowan, independent consultant and a senior advisor the the James Lind Alliance, which has pioneered patient involvement with their research priority

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00:43:30

SDGs - How many lives are at stake?

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/02/17

In a new analysis John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen, from the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, and Gavin Yamey from Duke University, have set out to analyse the potential for lives saved by the goals set in the Sustainable Development Goals In this conversation I talked to Gavin and John about the numbers, which countries have to accelerate their development to meet those goals - and we also address some of the criticisms of the SDGs - that they’re too wide

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00:21:00

The tone of the debate around assisted dying

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/02/08

Bobbie Farsides is professor of clinical and biomedical ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She’s been described as one of the few people that is acceptable to “both sides” of the assisted dying debate. This week she joins us to talk about the way in which the debate on euthanasia has played out in the UK - and hear why she thinks it’s now time for all individual doctors to make up their own mind, and not let either camp own the argument for them. Read her commentary on the

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00:39:02

Education round-up - January 2018

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/01/22

The BMJ publishes a variety of education articles, to help doctors improve their practice. Often authors join us in our podcast to give tips on putting their recommendations into practice. In this audio round-up The BMJ’s clinical editors discuss what they have learned, and how they may alter their practice. Kate Addlington, associate editor and trainee psychiatrist is joined by Cat Chatfield, quality editor and GP. They discuss acute respiratory distress

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00:38:51

Winter pressures - "You run the risk of dropping the...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/01/10

Winter pressures on NHS services have kicked in a little bit earlier than usual. So here to discuss that, and also the issue of how local NHS leaders can support staff in times of extreme pressure. Discussing that with Rebecca Coombes, The BMJ’s head of news and views, are Matthew Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute and general medicine at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Joe Harrison, CEO of Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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00:43:36

Suspect, investigate, and diagnose acute respiratory...

The BMJ Podcast ·

2018/01/03

Acute respiratory distress syndrome was first described in 1967 and has become a defining condition in critical care. Around 40% of patients with ARDS will die, and survivors experience long term sequelae. No drug treatments exist for ARDS, however good supportive management reduces harm and improves outcome. In this podcast, John Laffey, professor of anaesthesiology at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto and Brian Kavanagh, clinician-scientist, intensive care medicine at the University of Toronto take

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00:25:19

Taking the temperature of 37°C

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/12/13

Average body temperature is 37°C, right? That was the conclusion of Carl Wunderlich in his magnum opus, The Course of Temperature in Diseases - Wunderlich published that in 1868, following his extensive collection of body temperature readings - and 37°C stuck. But, it’s not as simple as that Philip Mackowiak, emeritus professor of medicine, and now history of medicine scholar in residence, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, has been interested in temperature for a long time. He

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00:43:20

Early detection of eating disorders

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/12/10

Assessing young people with possible eating disorders can be complex for a variety of reasons. Building a therapeutic relationship with a young person with a possible eating disorder and their family is key to enabling a thorough assessment and ongoing management, but it introduces difficult issues regarding confidentiality and risk. In this podcast we talk with the authors of two practice articles, which give advice on spotting and treating eating disorders in young people. In a linked podcast,

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00:16:13

Money for editors

The BMJ Podcast ·

2017/10/27

As journal editors, we’re aware of the fact that we have a role to play in scientific discourse - that’s why The BMJ has been so keen to talk about the way in which scientific knowledge is constructed, through our Evidence Manifesto. We also know that money has influence in the scientific literature - which is why we have a zero tolerance policy for financial conflicts of interest in our educational content. Where do journal editors fit into this? The first step into investigating that is to

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