The Recommended Dose podcast launches

The Recommended Dose launches today with one of the world ’s most influential doctors, BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee calling for a move away from drug company-funded science – towards a more independent evaluation of medicines.Multi-award-winning journalist and health researcher Dr  Ray Moynihan today launched a compelling new podcast series produced by Cochrane Australia.‘This new series tackles the big questions in health and offers new insights  evidence and ideas from some of the world’s most fascinating and prolific researchers, writers and thinkers,’ says Ray. ‘Its aim is to promote a more questioning approach to health care.’Episode one ofThe Recommended Dose kicks off with theBritish Medical Journal ’s erudite and exceptional editor,Dr  Fiona Godlee. In a wide-ranging and candid interview, she chats to Ray about theBMJ' s ongoing and often controversial campaigns to change medicine - and broader society - for the better. She looks to a future that addresses the distorting influence of industry funding on health evidence and outcomes.‘In an ideal world - and it ' s a world we ’d like to be moving towards - we wouldn ' t have this irreducible conflict of interest in research that is affecting people ' s health, ’Dr Godlee tellsThe Recommended Dose. ‘People who dream of a better future say, well why couldn ' t we have a pot into which industry, if they want to market their drugs or license them, put a proportion of their profits and that mo...
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