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DTB PodcastSupporting obesity treatment, major bleeds with anticoagulants and SSRIs, equity in COPD care
In this podcast recorded in early October, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) talk about the November issue of DTB. They provide an overview of the editorial that discusses the need to support people taking drugs to help with weight loss: "Providing the drug is only one part of the process and if the other elements are not available to support people with obesity the full benefits of these expensive treatments will not be realised" - https://dtb.bmj.com/content/62/11/162. They talk about the results of an observational study that assessed the risk of major bleeds with...
2024-10-3024 min
Sharp ScratchRewind: Behind the scenes at The BMJMaybe you've been following BMJ Student for a really long time, or maybe you're new to following us. Perhaps you only know about Sharp Scratch, or you've written and worked with us before. However much you know about BMJ Student, we hope this episode from our archives will be a look behind the scenes at what it means to work at The BMJ.
This episode from 2023 brings together four former editorial scholars, ready to talk all about their experiences of working at The BMJ, as well as how you can get involved via the Editorial Sc...
2024-04-1948 min
BMJ ConsultoriaBMJ Entrevista com Paulo André Moraes Lima e Fabi GadelhaNeste Dia Internacional do Orgulho LGBTQIAP+, nossos consultores Tito Sá e Guilherme Gomes conversam sobre direitos e representatividade de pessoas LGBTQIAP+ em diferentes frentes governamentais e na sociedade. Para esse bate-papo, convidamos Paulo André Moraes Lima e Fabi Gadelha, ambos ativistas e profissionais que atuam na defesa dos direitos da população não-heteronormativa.
Paulo Lima é diplomata e chefe do Setor Consular da embaixada do Brasil no México, formado em cinema pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) e mestre em Comunicação e Cultura pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Nosso convidado é membro do Grupo de Ação LG...
2023-06-2848 min
BJSM PodcastIt’s BJSM Concussion in Sport Month! Highlights from the 6th International Consensus on Concussion in Sport — Kathryn Schneider and Jon Patricios. EP#532In this BJSM Podcast, Brooke Patterson hosts Kathryn Schneider and Jon Patricios. This your one-stop-shop for the updates from the 6th International Concussion in Sport Consensus Statement. They summarise findings from 10 systematic reviews and five years of work on topics related to concussion prevention, assessment, management, return to learn and sport, later in life health risks, and retirement decisions. The rigour of the consensus process is very clear—with careful consideration of all stakeholders, medical ethics, all age groups and sports (including para-sport).
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/11/695
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/11/712
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2023-06-1545 min
BMJ ConsultoriaBMJ’s Interview with Marek HanuschIn this BMJ Interview, we brought a special guest. Our chat is with Marek Hanusch, Lead Economist and Program Leader at the World Bank’s Practice Group for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions.
Recently, Marek led the preparation of the study “A Balancing Act for Brazil’s Amazonian States: An Economic Memorandum” released by the World Bank. The document brings economic strategies for the population living in the Legal Amazon. This area encompasses nine states in the Amazon basin, in which about 36% of the population live in poverty.
Marek holds a doctorate from the University of Oxfor...
2023-05-3035 min
Sharp ScratchBehind the scenes at The BMJMaybe you’ve been following BMJ Student for a really long time, or maybe you’re new to following us. Perhaps you only know about Sharp Scratch, or you’ve written and worked with us before. However much you know about BMJ Student, we hope today’s episode will be a look behind the scenes at what it means to work at The BMJ.
Today we’ve got four current/former Editorial Scholars ready to talk all about our experiences working at The BMJ, as well as how you can get involved via the Clegg Scholarship, the Editorial Scholarship, Sharp Scratch, a...
2023-02-1648 minBMJ talk medicineBehind the scenes at The BMJMaybe you’ve been following BMJ Student for a really long time, or maybe you’re new to following us. Perhaps you only know about Sharp Scratch, or you’ve written and worked with us before. However much you know about BMJ Student, we hope today’s episode will be a look behind the scenes at what it means to work at The BMJ.
Today we’ve got four current/former Editorial Scholars ready to talk all about our experiences working at The BMJ, as well as how you can get involved via the Clegg Scholarship, the Editorial Scholarship, Sharp Scratch, a...
2023-02-1648 minSharp ScratchBehind the scenes at The BMJMaybe you’ve been following BMJ Student for a really long time, or maybe you’re new to following us. Perhaps you only know about Sharp Scratch, or you’ve written and worked with us before. However much you know about BMJ Student, we hope today’s episode will be a look behind the scenes at what it means to work at The BMJ.
Today we’ve got four current/former Editorial Scholars ready to talk all about our experiences working at The BMJ, as well as how you can get involved via the Clegg Scholarship, the Editorial Scholarship, Sharp Scratch, a...
2023-02-1648 min
Deep Breath InReproductive coercion and narrative medicine with Annabel Sowemimo and John LaunerReproductive coercion may feel like something that we don’t see very often in general practice, but a 2022 poll carried out for BBC Radio 4 of 1,060 UK women between the ages of 18 and 44 found that half of them had experienced some form of reproductive coercion. This week, we speak to returning guest Annabel Sowemimo about the various forms that reproductive coercion can take, and who might be at risk of experiencing it. We discuss how we, as GPs, can identify these patients, and, once we’ve done so, how we might be able to help them. Later on, we talk to our...
2023-02-0446 minBMJ talk medicineReproductive coercion and narrative medicine with Annabel Sowemimo and John LaunerReproductive coercion may feel like something that we don’t see very often in general practice, but a 2022 poll carried out for BBC Radio 4 of 1,060 UK women between the ages of 18 and 44 found that half of them had experienced some form of reproductive coercion. This week, we speak to returning guest Annabel Sowemimo about the various forms that reproductive coercion can take, and who might be at risk of experiencing it. We discuss how we, as GPs, can identify these patients, and, once we’ve done so, how we might be able to help them. Later on, we talk to our...
2023-02-0446 min
Deep Breath InReproductive coercion and narrative medicine with Annabel Sowemimo and John LaunerReproductive coercion may feel like something that we don’t see very often in general practice, but a 2022 poll carried out for BBC Radio 4 of 1,060 UK women between the ages of 18 and 44 found that half of them had experienced some form of reproductive coercion. This week, we speak to returning guest Annabel Sowemimo about the various forms that reproductive coercion can take, and who might be at risk of experiencing it. We discuss how we, as GPs, can identify these patients, and, once we’ve done so, how we might be able to help them. Later on, we talk to our...
2023-02-0446 min
Talk EvidenceTalk Evidence - excess deaths, the ONS, and the healthcare crisisIn this week's episode, we're focusing on covid and the ongoing crisis in the NHS.
Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco and Joseph Ross cast their evidence seeking eyes over research into outcomes as well as the workload of doctors.
Firstly, Joe tells us about a new big data study into longer term outcomes after mild covid-19, how those ongoing symptoms relate to long covid, and how often they resolve themselves.
Juan looks back to his homeland to see what Argentina which was very early to offer children vaccinations against covid-19. He tells us how a new study design can help understand...
2023-01-2752 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectivenessIn this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat.
They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now.
We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs.
And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and m...
2022-08-2442 min
BMJ talk medicineTalk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectivenessIn this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat.
They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now.
We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs.
And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and m...
2022-08-2442 minThe BMJ PodcastTalk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectivenessIn this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat.
They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now.
We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs.
And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and m...
2022-08-2442 min
Medicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectivenessIn this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat.
They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now.
We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs.
And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and m...
2022-08-2442 minBMJ talk medicineTalk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woesIn this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in the world of evidence.
Firstly, last week they went to the first EBM Live conference for two years - and report back on what happened when the evidence community got back together.
We have two research papers looking at knees and shoulders, and finding out about the balance of risks and benefits.
In covid news, we're still finding new symptoms associated with infection, 2.5 years after the pandemic started. We'll also hear how complex it...
2022-07-3137 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woesIn this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in the world of evidence.
Firstly, last week they went to the first EBM Live conference for two years - and report back on what happened when the evidence community got back together.
We have two research papers looking at knees and shoulders, and finding out about the balance of risks and benefits.
In covid news, we're still finding new symptoms associated with infection, 2.5 years after the pandemic started. We'll also hear how complex it...
2022-07-3137 minMedicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woesIn this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in the world of evidence.
Firstly, last week they went to the first EBM Live conference for two years - and report back on what happened when the evidence community got back together.
We have two research papers looking at knees and shoulders, and finding out about the balance of risks and benefits.
In covid news, we're still finding new symptoms associated with infection, 2.5 years after the pandemic started. We'll also hear how complex it...
2022-07-3137 min
The BMJ PodcastTalk Evidence - political persuasion and mortality, too much medicineIn this week's episode, Helen Macdonald is joined by Joseph Ross, US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM.
They begin by discussing a review of obesity interventions in primary care, and Joe wonders if GPs are really the best people to tackle the issue.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069719
Cervical screening in the UK now includes HPV testing, and they look at research which examines whether this could mean longer periods between screening tests.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-068776
They all enjoy a new State of the Art Review into...
2022-06-1741 minBMJ talk medicineTalk Evidence - political persuasion and mortality, too much medicineIn this week's episode, Helen Macdonald is joined by Joseph Ross, US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM.
They begin by discussing a review of obesity interventions in primary care, and Joe wonders if GPs are really the best people to tackle the issue.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069719
Cervical screening in the UK now includes HPV testing, and they look at research which examines whether this could mean longer periods between screening tests.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-068776
They all enjoy a new State of the Art Review into...
2022-06-1741 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence - political persuasion and mortality, too much medicineIn this week's episode, Helen Macdonald is joined by Joseph Ross, US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM.
They begin by discussing a review of obesity interventions in primary care, and Joe wonders if GPs are really the best people to tackle the issue.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069719
Cervical screening in the UK now includes HPV testing, and they look at research which examines whether this could mean longer periods between screening tests.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-068776
They all enjoy a new State of the Art Review into...
2022-06-1741 minMedicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence - political persuasion and mortality, too much medicineIn this week's episode, Helen Macdonald is joined by Joseph Ross, US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM.
They begin by discussing a review of obesity interventions in primary care, and Joe wonders if GPs are really the best people to tackle the issue.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069719
Cervical screening in the UK now includes HPV testing, and they look at research which examines whether this could mean longer periods between screening tests.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-068776
They all enjoy a new State of the Art Review into...
2022-06-1741 min
BMJ ConsultoriaBMJ Entrevista – Juliana PiresUm dos principais mecanismos de proteção adotados pelos países são as barreiras comerciais. Elas se configuram de diversas formas como leis, regulamentos ou práticas governamentais que impõem restrições ao comércio exterior. Além de servirem como mecanismos de proteção aos produtores locais, eles também auxiliam na regulamentação do comércio internacional realizado pelo país.
Atualmente, o Brasil adotou alguns modelos como o Acordo sobre Barreiras Técnicas ao Comércio (TBT) e exigências técnicas, sanitárias e fitossanitárias. Além disso, existem mecanismos estabelecidos pela Organ...
2022-04-191h 00
BMJ ConsultoriaBMJ Entrevista Marina BarkiAs organizações mundiais têm metas ambiciosas de sustentabilidade para os próximos anos e com isso as finanças verdes vêm ganhando destaque entre as empresas.
Para comentar o assunto, convidamos para o BMJ Entrevista profissional de Relações Públicas com mais de 15 anos de experiência em relações institucionais e governamentais , Marina Barki. Ao longo de sua carreira, nossa convidada trabalhou na Embaixada Britânica e esteve à frente da estratégia de política doméstica do Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCDO).
Atualmente, Marina lidera a agenda de relações com stakeholders da...
2022-03-0841 min
EMJ PodcastPrimary Survey - the January 2022 issue in 30 minutes!Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, and Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, talk through the highlights of the January 2022 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/1
Details of the papers mentioned in the podcast:
Frequent attendance at the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/3
Heterogeneity of reasons for attendance in frequent attenders of emergency departments and its relationship to future attendance:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/10
Non-urgent emergency department attendances in children: a retrospective observational analysis:
https://emj.bmj...
2022-01-0730 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey - the highlights of December 2021Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the December 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/867
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Evaluation of a state law on opioid-prescribing behaviour and the void affecting codeine-containing antitussive syrup - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/889
We Need to Talk About Codeine: an Implementation Study to reduce the number of Emergency Department patients discharged on high-strength co-codamol using the Behaviour Change Wheel - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/895
Feasibility and usefulness of rapid 2-channel-EEG-monitoring (point-of-care EEG...
2021-11-2512 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomesThis week our regular panelists, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross, are joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine - to take a primary care focussed look at what's been happening in the world of evidence.
On this week’s episode.
As kids go back to school, winter bugs surge and pressure mounts on health services we look at two trials which aimed to use reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in nursing homes and primary care
Juan brings us an update on prescribing medicinal cannabis for pain, based on a recent BMJ rapid recommendation ar...
2021-09-2929 minMedicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomesThis week our regular panelists, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross, are joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine - to take a primary care focussed look at what's been happening in the world of evidence.
On this week’s episode.
As kids go back to school, winter bugs surge and pressure mounts on health services we look at two trials which aimed to use reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in nursing homes and primary care
Juan brings us an update on prescribing medicinal cannabis for pain, based on a recent BMJ rapid recommendation ar...
2021-09-2929 min
The BMJ PodcastTalk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementiaIn this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19.
They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
This week, the team bring you updates on;
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring.
Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - how big is the...
2021-05-1447 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementiaIn this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19.
They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
This week, the team bring you updates on;
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring.
Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - how big is the...
2021-05-1447 minMedicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementiaIn this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19.
They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
This week, the team bring you updates on;
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring.
Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - how big is the...
2021-05-1447 minMedicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin updateThe evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale.
This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're not ready to recommend it's use in treatment, and prophylactic anticoagulation treatment.
We hear about two papers from the UK and Switzerland which look at children and covid, and we pick up on varients of concern and long covid.
Reading list.
Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19...
2021-04-0232 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin updateThe evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale.
This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're not ready to recommend it's use in treatment, and prophylactic anticoagulation treatment.
We hear about two papers from the UK and Switzerland which look at children and covid, and we pick up on varients of concern and long covid.
Reading list.
Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19...
2021-04-0232 minThe BMJ PodcastTalk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin updateThe evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale.
This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're not ready to recommend it's use in treatment, and prophylactic anticoagulation treatment.
We hear about two papers from the UK and Switzerland which look at children and covid, and we pick up on varients of concern and long covid.
Reading list.
Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19...
2021-04-0232 min
The BMJ PodcastThe BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interestJeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus
2021-02-1933 minMedicine and Science from The BMJThe BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interestJeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus
2021-02-1933 minThe BMJ PodcastThe BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were preparedIt’s been just over a year since the WHO declared the pandemic a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” - if you cast your mind back to then, the news was full of reassurances about how prepared the UK and the USA were for a pandemic.
Now a year later, with the benefit of hindsight, that confidence was wildly overstated - but why was that, what is the gap between that theoretical readiness, and reality.
In this podcast we're joined by talking to Tom Frieden - former director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, under President Obama, and wh...
2021-02-0237 minMedicine and Science from The BMJThe BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were preparedIt’s been just over a year since the WHO declared the pandemic a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” - if you cast your mind back to then, the news was full of reassurances about how prepared the UK and the USA were for a pandemic.
Now a year later, with the benefit of hindsight, that confidence was wildly overstated - but why was that, what is the gap between that theoretical readiness, and reality.
In this podcast we're joined by talking to Tom Frieden - former director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, under President Obama, and wh...
2021-02-0237 minThe BMJ PodcastThe BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden eraUS president elect Joe Biden wasted no time in appointing a special advisory board of experts to guide America out of its coronavirus crisis.
One of those experts is Celine Gounder, an infectious diseases epidemiologist who has worked on Ebola, tuberculosis, and HIV in Africa and South America. She’s a clinical assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University’s School of Medicine, as well as an active writer and podcast host, including of Epidemic
In this podcast she talks to Joanne Silberner about the ways in which the taskforce is helping prepare for action immediately afte...
2021-01-1928 minMedicine and Science from The BMJThe BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden eraUS president elect Joe Biden wasted no time in appointing a special advisory board of experts to guide America out of its coronavirus crisis.
One of those experts is Celine Gounder, an infectious diseases epidemiologist who has worked on Ebola, tuberculosis, and HIV in Africa and South America. She’s a clinical assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University’s School of Medicine, as well as an active writer and podcast host, including of Epidemic
In this podcast she talks to Joanne Silberner about the ways in which the taskforce is helping prepare for action immediately afte...
2021-01-1928 minThe BMJ PodcastThe BMJ Interview - Andrew Pollard on the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccineAndrew Pollard is Director of the Oxford Vaccines Group - who, along with Astra Zeneca, have developed an modified adenovirus vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.
In this interview we talk to him about the development of that vaccine - what he thinks about the UK government's plan to increase the interval between doses; if he worries about a mutating virus and vaccine escape; and how the university came to make a deal with a commercial company to provide cost-price vaccinations for the world.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus
2021-01-1444 minMedicine and Science from The BMJThe BMJ Interview - Andrew Pollard on the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccineAndrew Pollard is Director of the Oxford Vaccines Group - who, along with Astra Zeneca, have developed an modified adenovirus vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.
In this interview we talk to him about the development of that vaccine - what he thinks about the UK government's plan to increase the interval between doses; if he worries about a mutating virus and vaccine escape; and how the university came to make a deal with a commercial company to provide cost-price vaccinations for the world.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus
2021-01-1444 min
EMJ podcastPrimary Survey - the highlights of October 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the October 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/593
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Are we preaching to the choir? Where should studies on frequent users of EDs be published? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/595
Frequent attendances at emergency departments in England - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/597
A data linkage study of suspected seizures in the urgent and emergency care system in the UK - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/605
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2020-10-3011 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey - the highlights of October 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the October 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/593
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Are we preaching to the choir? Where should studies on frequent users of EDs be published? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/595
Frequent attendances at emergency departments in England - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/597
A data linkage study of suspected seizures in the urgent and emergency care system in the UK - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/605
...
2020-10-2911 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of July 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the July 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/395
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Updated framework on quality and safety in emergency medicine - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/437
Evaluating the sustained effectiveness of a multimodal intervention aimed at influencing PIVC insertion practices in the emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/444
Endotracheal intubation with barrier protection - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/398
Aerosol containment box to the rescue: extra protection...
2020-07-2209 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of June 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the June 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/321
Other links:
Suffocating in the eye of the storm: attempting to breathe at the epicentre of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/330
Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/335
Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/332
Early versus delayed emergency de...
2020-06-1508 minEMJ podcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of June 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the June 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/321
Other links:
Suffocating in the eye of the storm: attempting to breathe at the epicentre of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/330
Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/335
Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/332
Early versus delayed emergency de...
2020-06-1508 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of May 2020A bit later than usual, but here we are again!
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks with Professor Richard Body about the highlights of the May 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/249
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
SARS: experience from the emergency department, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore - emj.bmj.com/content/20/6/501
Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/265
End of life care in...
2020-05-2015 minTalk EvidenceTalk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescriptionThis edition of talk evidence was recorded before the big increase in covid-19 infections in the UK, and then delayed by some self isolation. We'll be back with more evidence on the pandemic very soon.
As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence).
in this episode
(1.01) Helen talks about variation in prescription of opioids - do 1% of clinician really prescribe the vast majority of the drug?
(8.45) Carl tells us that its time papers (in this case a...
2020-03-2054 min
The BMJ PodcastTalk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescriptionThis edition of talk evidence was recorded before the big increase in covid-19 infections in the UK, and then delayed by some self isolation. We'll be back with more evidence on the pandemic very soon.
As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence).
in this episode
(1.01) Helen talks about variation in prescription of opioids - do 1% of clinician really prescribe the vast majority of the drug?
(8.45) Carl tells us that its time papers (in this case a...
2020-03-2054 minMedicine and Science from The BMJTalk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescriptionThis edition of talk evidence was recorded before the big increase in covid-19 infections in the UK, and then delayed by some self isolation. We'll be back with more evidence on the pandemic very soon.
As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence).
in this episode
(1.01) Helen talks about variation in prescription of opioids - do 1% of clinician really prescribe the vast majority of the drug?
(8.45) Carl tells us that its time papers (in this case a...
2020-03-2054 min
EMJ podcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of March 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the March 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/117.
Predicting abusive head trauma in children https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/118 Validation of the PredAHT-2 prediction tool for abusive head trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/119 Association of clinically important traumatic brain injury and Glasgow Coma Scale scores in children with head injury https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/127 Biological mechanisms and individual variation in fibrinolysis after major trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/135 Prehospital critical care is associated with increased...
2020-03-1911 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of March 2020Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the March 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/117.
Predicting abusive head trauma in children https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/118 Validation of the PredAHT-2 prediction tool for abusive head trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/119 Association of clinically important traumatic brain injury and Glasgow Coma Scale scores in children with head injury https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/127 Biological mechanisms and individual variation in fibrinolysis after major trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/135 Prehospital critical care is associated with increased...
2020-03-1611 min
The BMJ PodcastBorn equal - the launch of The BMJ special issue on race in medicineLast week the BMJ published it’s first special edition into Racism in Medicine. The issues tacked ranged from differential attainment in medical school, to the physiological effects that experiencing everyday discrimination has.
The issue was guest edited by Victor Adebowale, the Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point, and Mala Rao, Professor of Public Health, at Imperial College London - and they, along with Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, Chand Nagpul Chair of council of the BMA, and the Olalade Obedare, medical student from Nottingham University Medical School, talked at the event.
www.bmj.com/ra...
2020-02-2128 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBorn equal - the launch of The BMJ special issue on race in medicineLast week the BMJ published it’s first special edition into Racism in Medicine. The issues tacked ranged from differential attainment in medical school, to the physiological effects that experiencing everyday discrimination has.
The issue was guest edited by Victor Adebowale, the Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point, and Mala Rao, Professor of Public Health, at Imperial College London - and they, along with Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, Chand Nagpul Chair of council of the BMA, and the Olalade Obedare, medical student from Nottingham University Medical School, talked at the event.
www.bmj.co...
2020-02-2128 min
BMJ talk medicineBMJ Emergency Medicine Award: the HECTOR projectThe Heartlands Elderly Care Trauma and Ongoing Recovery Programme is the BMJ 2018 award winner for Emergency Medicine.
Dr David Raven, the National Course director for the HECTOR project and emergency medicine consultant at the Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK, tells EMJ’s Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber what makes this project unique.
Read the paper on the EMJ website (https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/12/11/emermed-2019-209143) and on the February 2020 issue of the journal.
2020-01-1515 min
EMJ podcastBMJ Emergency Medicine Award: the HECTOR projectThe Heartlands Elderly Care Trauma and Ongoing Recovery Programme is the BMJ 2018 award winner for Emergency Medicine.
Dr David Raven, the National Course director for the HECTOR project and emergency medicine consultant at the Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK, tells EMJ’s Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber what makes this project unique.
Read the paper on the EMJ website (https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/12/11/emermed-2019-209143) and on the February 2020 issue of the journal.
2020-01-1515 minEMJ PodcastBMJ Emergency Medicine Award: the HECTOR projectThe Heartlands Elderly Care Trauma and Ongoing Recovery Programme is the BMJ 2018 award winner for Emergency Medicine.
Dr David Raven, the National Course director for the HECTOR project and emergency medicine consultant at the Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK, tells EMJ’s Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber what makes this project unique.
Read the paper on the EMJ website (https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/12/11/emermed-2019-209143) and on the February 2020 issue of the journal.
2020-01-0915 min
BMJ talk medicineEditors pick of education in 2019If you’re lucky enough to not be back at work, you might be feeling like you need to quickly refresh your medical knowledge - and this podcast the BMJ’s education editors take you on a whistlestop tour through the BMJ’s education articles of 2019.
Tom Nolan (GP in London) is joined by Navjoyt Ladher (GP in London), Anita Jain (GP in India) and Jenny Rasanathan (GP in Phnom Penh).
Our reading list:
Please don’t call me mum
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5373
Which emollients are effective and acceptable for eczema in children?
https://www.bmj.com/cont...
2020-01-0329 minMedicine and Science from The BMJEditors pick of education in 2019If you’re lucky enough to not be back at work, you might be feeling like you need to quickly refresh your medical knowledge - and this podcast the BMJ’s education editors take you on a whistlestop tour through the BMJ’s education articles of 2019.
Tom Nolan (GP in London) is joined by Navjoyt Ladher (GP in London), Anita Jain (GP in India) and Jenny Rasanathan (GP in Phnom Penh).
Our reading list:
Please don’t call me mum
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5373
Which emollients are effective and acceptable for eczema in children?
https://www.bmj.com/cont...
2020-01-0329 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of September 2019Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the September 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/517
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
The Panoramic Dental Radiograph for Emergency Physicians - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/565
Exploring the characteristics, acuity and management of adult ED patients at night-time - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/554
Evaluation of the criteria for trauma activation in the paediatric emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/529
Why are people increasingly attending the emergency department? A...
2019-08-2313 min
BMJ talk medicinePrimary Survey: the highlights of September 2019Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the September 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/517
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
The Panoramic Dental Radiograph for Emergency Physicians - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/565
Exploring the characteristics, acuity and management of adult ED patients at night-time - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/554
Evaluation of the criteria for trauma activation in the paediatric emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/529
Why are people increasingly attending the emergency department? A...
2019-08-2313 minMedicine and Science from The BMJAssisted dying: should doctors help patients to die?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 president for international health, shares how that stance enabled it to represent all its members, including doctors with conscientious objections.
But many are...
2019-02-0429 min
EMJ podcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of February 2019Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/63
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
A simple clinical assessment is superior to systematic triage in prediction of mortality in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/66
A systematic review examining the impact of redirecting low-acuity patients seeking emergency department care: is the juice worth the squeeze? - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/97
From ED overcrowding to jail overcrowding: a cautionary tale of a Serial...
2019-01-3012 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of February 2019Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/63
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
A simple clinical assessment is superior to systematic triage in prediction of mortality in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/66
A systematic review examining the impact of redirecting low-acuity patients seeking emergency department care: is the juice worth the squeeze? - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/97
From ED overcrowding to jail overcrowding: a cautionary tale of a Serial...
2019-01-2912 min
EMJ podcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of June 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the June 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by Associate Editor, Edward Carlton.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/341
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Editor's choice: Comparison of qSOFA with current emergency department tools for screening of patients with sepsis for critical illness - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/350
Editor's choice: qSOFA, SIRS and NEWS for predicting inhospital mortality and ICU admission in emergency admissions treated as sepsis - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/345
Editor's choice: Sepsis-3 and...
2018-07-1809 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of June 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the June 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by Associate Editor, Edward Carlton.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/341
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Editor's choice: Comparison of qSOFA with current emergency department tools for screening of patients with sepsis for critical illness - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/350
Editor's choice: qSOFA, SIRS and NEWS for predicting inhospital mortality and ICU admission in emergency admissions treated as sepsis - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/345
Editor's choice: Sepsis-3 and...
2018-07-1709 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of May 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the May 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by our Associate Editor, Caroline Leech.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/279
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Editor's choice: Lack of efficacy in a randomised trial of a brief intervention to reduce drug use and increase drug treatment services utilisation among adult emergency department patients over a 12-month period - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/282
Absence of a quick fix does not mean ‘do nothing:’ time to address drug use...
2018-06-2912 minEMJ PodcastMarch 2018: celebrating 50 years of Emergency Medicine in the UKRichard Body, EMJ Deputy Editor, and Simon Carley, EMJ Associate Editor, talk through the highlights of the March 2018 edition of the journal, celebrating 50 years of the UK's Emergency Medicine.
It is a special podcast presenting a collection of amazing articles that tell the story of where we have come from, where we are and where we are going. It's not all opinion though. We have some fantastic papers this month including an RCT on the use of ice to reduce the pain of laceration repair (Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: a...
2018-02-1618 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of February 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Simon himself.
Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/73
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Understanding cardiac troponin part 1: avoiding troponinitis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/120
Calculating the proportion of avoidable attendances at UK emergency departments: analysis of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Sentinel Site Survey data -
http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/114
Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of se...
2018-01-3016 min
EMJ podcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of February 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Simon himself.
Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/73
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Understanding cardiac troponin part 1: avoiding troponinitis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/120
Calculating the proportion of avoidable attendances at UK emergency departments: analysis of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Sentinel Site Survey data -
http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/114
Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of se...
2018-01-3016 minEMJ PodcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of January 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the January 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Ellen Webber (Editor-in-Chief, University of California, San Francisco, USA).
Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/1.
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Impact of Physician Navigators on productivity indicators in the ED - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/5
Tackling the demand for emergency department services: there are no silver bullets - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/3
Emergency consultants value medical scribes and most prefer to work with them...
2018-01-1115 min
EMJ podcastPrimary Survey: the highlights of January 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the January 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Ellen Webber (Editor-in-Chief, University of California, San Francisco, USA).
Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/1.
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Impact of Physician Navigators on productivity indicators in the ED - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/5
Tackling the demand for emergency department services: there are no silver bullets - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/3
Emergency consultants value medical scribes and most prefer to work with them...
2018-01-1115 minBJSM PodcastWould school rugby be better if collisions and tackles were banned? Prof Allyson PollockAllyson M Pollock is professor of public health and Director of Institute of Health and Society in the Medical Faculty of Newcastle University. She is a public health doctor and has been researching injuries and rugby injuries for more than ten years.
She takes what she describes as the ‘child’s perspective’ and asks – Do children know the risks of playing school rugby? Do all schools have appropriate risk mitigation? She reminds us that the health benefits of physical activity are well proven – but if one critically reviews the literature those benefits have not been proven for school rugby. This is a contr...
2017-10-2717 min
BJSMWould school rugby be better if collisions and tackles were banned? Prof Allyson PollockAllyson M Pollock is professor of public health and Director of Institute of Health and Society in the Medical Faculty of Newcastle University. She is a public health doctor and has been researching injuries and rugby injuries for more than ten years.
She takes what she describes as the ‘child’s perspective’ and asks – Do children know the risks of playing school rugby? Do all schools have appropriate risk mitigation? She reminds us that the health benefits of physical activity are well proven – but if one critically reviews the literature those benefits have not been proven for school rugby. This is a contr...
2017-10-2717 min
EMJ podcastAugust 2017's Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the August 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/491
Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:
Clinical relevance of pharmacist intervention in an emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/495
Developing a decision rule to optimise clinical pharmacist resources for medication reconciliation in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/502
Emergency medicine pharmacists on an international scale - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/492
‘Major trauma’: now two separate diseases? - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/494
Traumatic brain inju...
2017-08-1417 minEMJ PodcastAugust 2017’s Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the August 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/491
Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:
Clinical relevance of pharmacist intervention in an emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/495
Developing a decision rule to optimise clinical pharmacist resources for medication reconciliation in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/502
Emergency medicine pharmacists on an international scale - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/492
‘Major trauma’: now two separate diseases? - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/494
Traumatic brain inju...
2017-08-1017 minEMJ PodcastJuly 2017’s Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the July 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/427
Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:
The key to resilient individuals is to build resilient and adaptive systems - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/428
Emergency medicine: what keeps me, what might lose me? A narrative study of consultant views in Wales - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/436
The psychological health and well-being of emergency medicine consultants in the UK - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/430
...
2017-07-1312 minMedicine and Science from The BMJEducation round up - NovemberThe 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 new monthly audio round-up The BMJ’s clinical editors discuss what they have learned, and how they may alter their practice.
In our second audio edition, GPs Sophie Cook and Helen Macdonald, surgical trainee Jessamy Baganel, and internalist and methodologist Reed Siemieniuk, talk about the evidence for vitamin D supplements.
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6201
The new Rapid Recommendation series in the BMJ
http://www.bmj.co...
2016-12-0736 min
EMJ podcastNovember 2016's Primary SurveySimon Carley is on his own once more, talking through the highlights of the November 2016's EMJ.
Here are links to the discussed highlights:
Diagnostic accuracy of PAT-POPS and ManChEWS for admissions of children from the emergency department - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/756.full
Related editorial: Paediatric early warning systems (PEWS) in the ED - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/754.extract
Early warning scores: a health warning - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/812.abstract
Engaging the public in healthcare decision-making: results from a Citizens’ Jury on emergency care services - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/782.full
ED healthcare professionals an...
2016-11-0812 minEMJ PodcastNovember 2016’s Primary SurveySimon Carley is on his own once more, talking through the highlights of the November 2016's EMJ.
Here are links to the discussed highlights:
Diagnostic accuracy of PAT-POPS and ManChEWS for admissions of children from the emergency department - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/756.full
Related editorial: Paediatric early warning systems (PEWS) in the ED - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/754.extract
Early warning scores: a health warning - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/812.abstract
Engaging the public in healthcare decision-making: results from a Citizens’ Jury on emergency care services - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/11/782.full
ED healthcare professionals an...
2016-11-0712 min
2016-05-0714 min
BMJ Podcast fourteenBMJ roundtable: How to fix out of hours careThe BMJ recently held a discussion between experts in the fields of general practice, emergency medicine, and paediatrics about the state of out of hours care in the UK, and crucially offered their vision for a better service.
Are children a special case, can urgent care ‘hubs’ be a silver bullet, is NHS 111 up to the job of triaging patients, do there enough clinicians involved in out of hours care, and are other countries doing a better job?
The state of out of hours care can best be described as ‘patchy,’ with some, even most, people receiving good and timely care alt...
2016-04-2723 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBMJ roundtable: How to fix out of hours careThe BMJ recently held a discussion between experts in the fields of general practice, emergency medicine, and paediatrics about the state of out of hours care in the UK, and crucially offered their vision for a better service.
Are children a special case, can urgent care ‘hubs’ be a silver bullet, is NHS 111 up to the job of triaging patients, do there enough clinicians involved in out of hours care, and are other countries doing a better job?
The state of out of hours care can best be described as ‘patchy,’ with some, even most, people receiving good and timely care alt...
2016-04-2723 minMedicine and Science from The BMJbmj.com at 20The BMJ website is 20 years old this week - the first general medical journal online. Launch editor Tony Delamothe discusses with fellow digital pioneers Richard Smith and John Sack how the internet transformed doctors’ reading habits and the journal’s international reach. David Payne reports
www.bmj.com/twenty
2015-05-2220 min
The BMJ PodcastThe BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trialsThe movement to make data from clinical trials widely accessible has achieved enormous success, and it is now time for medical journals to play their part. From 1 July The BMJ will extend its requirements for data sharing to apply to all submitted clinical trials, not just those that test drugs or devices.
The BMJ's Elizabeth Loder explains what this means for authors, and how we expect researchers to make their data available.
Read the full editorial:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2373
2015-05-2211 minMedicine and Science from The BMJThe BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trialsThe movement to make data from clinical trials widely accessible has achieved enormous success, and it is now time for medical journals to play their part. From 1 July The BMJ will extend its requirements for data sharing to apply to all submitted clinical trials, not just those that test drugs or devices.
The BMJ's Elizabeth Loder explains what this means for authors, and how we expect researchers to make their data available.
Read the full editorial:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2373
2015-05-2211 minBJSM PodcastAseem Malhotra on the impact of diet on heart disease #Don’tFearTheFatDr Aseem Malhotra is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist who has been the central catalyst in igniting the debate around the harms of excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom. He has achieved this via writing commentaries in the BMJ, appearances on majors new channels including BBC, Sky News, ITV & Channel 4 and the regular columns he writes for the Guardian Newspaper about heart disease and other health topics –
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/aseem-malhotra.
He is the Science Director of the campaign group “Action On Sugar” and has been appointed as Consultant Clinical Associate tot the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Aseem...
2015-02-1318 minBJSM PodcastProf Jiri Dvorak on anti-doping in sports; Athlete Biological Passport and 10 years in a freezer.This 12-minute podcast relates to a special 2013 Consensus Meeting on Anti-Doping in Sports & its summary in BJSM’s Special Issue on Anti-Doping (May 2014).
On November 29, 2013, FIFA hosted a meeting of representatives from key Anti-Doping stakeholders. Represented were sports physicians, athletes, legal experts, biomedical scientists, as well as leadership of international sports federations, the IOC and the Word Anti-Doping Agency. To take a ‘giant leap' forward in the battle to ensure a level playing field in sport the group addressed two key questions. (1) ‘Are we doing the right thing?’ and (2) ‘What contemporary methods can move beyond the simple testing strategy that was begun...
2014-04-0912 min
BMJ Podcast fourteenBMJ podcast: Treating erectile dysfunctionRead the full article: http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g129
Erectile dysfunction is a common problem, and novel treatments mean that patient’s options have widened. In this podcast Asif Muneer, consultant urological surgeon and andrologist at University College Hospital in London, explains the aetiology, treatment, and prognosis for the condition.
2014-01-2717 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBMJ podcast: Treating erectile dysfunctionRead the full article: http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g129
Erectile dysfunction is a common problem, and novel treatments mean that patient’s options have widened. In this podcast Asif Muneer, consultant urological surgeon and andrologist at University College Hospital in London, explains the aetiology, treatment, and prognosis for the condition.
2014-01-2717 min
BMJ Podcast fourteenBMJ podcast - high risk devices for rare conditionsTwo articles on bmj.com look at high risk devices for rare conditions, and how the US Food and Drug Administration regulates them.
Joining us to discuss the problems are Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and Aaron Kesselheim, assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard School of Public health.
Read the articles
Presumed safe no more: lessons from the Wingspan saga on regulation of devices
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g93
Assessment of US pathway for approving medical devices for rare conditions http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g217
2014-01-2413 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBMJ podcast - high risk devices for rare conditionsTwo articles on bmj.com look at high risk devices for rare conditions, and how the US Food and Drug Administration regulates them.
Joining us to discuss the problems are Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and Aaron Kesselheim, assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard School of Public health.
Read the articles
Presumed safe no more: lessons from the Wingspan saga on regulation of devices
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g93
Assessment of US pathway for approving medical devices for rare conditions http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g217
2014-01-2413 min
Lupus Science and Medicine podcastBMJ and the Lupus Foundation of America announce the first open access lupus scientific journalSandra Raymond, president and CEO of the Lupus Foundation of America, talks about why the foundation wanted to create Lupus Science and Medicine, and what she hopes the journal will achieve.For more information on the journal, see http://journals.bmj.com/site/lupus/index.html.
2013-10-2305 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making PatientsAt BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the background, practical challenges, and how to engage patients with their health
The participants were:
Fiona Godlee , editor in chief, BMJ
Angela Coulter , director of global initiatives, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Albert Mulley , co-founder, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, and director, Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science
Glyn Elwyn, research professor with an interest in shared decision making, Cardiff University
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2013-08-2835 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making PracticalitiesAt BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the background, practical challenges, and how to engage patients with their health
The participants were:
Fiona Godlee , editor in chief, BMJ
Angela Coulter , director of global initiatives, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Albert Mulley , co-founder, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, and director, Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science
Glyn Elwyn, research professor with an interest in shared decision making, Cardiff University
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2013-08-2823 minMedicine and Science from The BMJBMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making BackgroundAt BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the background, practical challenges, and how to engage patients with their health
The participants were:
Fiona Godlee , editor in chief, BMJ
Angela Coulter , director of global initiatives, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Albert Mulley , co-founder, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, and director, Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science
Glyn Elwyn, research professor with an interest in shared decision making, Cardiff University
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2013-08-2826 min
BMJ Podcast thirteenThe BMJ Awards: Medical Team of the YearThe BMJ Awards were held last Thursday. Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor in chief, announced that the Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) was named Medical Team of the Year.
BRINOS (brinos.org.uk) started out in 1988 by setting up joint British and Nepalese surgical camps to treat ear disease among patients living outside the reach of hospitals in the capital of Kathmandu. A national survey in 1991 found that among the 19m people in Nepal, 2.7m were deaf and 1.5m had abnormal ear drums indicative of ear disease. BRINOS has performed more than 4000 major ear operations at 49 surgical day camps since...
2013-08-0609 minMedicine and Science from The BMJThe BMJ Awards: Medical Team of the YearThe BMJ Awards were held last Thursday. Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor in chief, announced that the Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) was named Medical Team of the Year.
BRINOS (brinos.org.uk) started out in 1988 by setting up joint British and Nepalese surgical camps to treat ear disease among patients living outside the reach of hospitals in the capital of Kathmandu. A national survey in 1991 found that among the 19m people in Nepal, 2.7m were deaf and 1.5m had abnormal ear drums indicative of ear disease. BRINOS has performed more than 4000 major ear operations at 49 surgical...
2013-08-0609 min