Talk Evidence - eating less, drinking less, drug approval data
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Carl talks about evidence that restricting your diet might improve health at a population level (1.50)
Helen talks about the data on a drop in alcohol consumption amongst Scots (7.04)
A listener questions the team about their take on Tramadol (13.45)
Helen talks about the problems wi th the trials we use to regulate drugs (18.00)
And Carl explains why drug sho...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - eating less, drinking less, drug approval data
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Carl talks about evidence that restricting your diet might improve health at a population level (1.50)
Helen talks about the data on a drop in alcohol consumption amongst Scots (7.04)
A listener questions the team about their take on Tramadol (13.45)
Helen talks about the problems with the trials we use to regulate drugs (18.00)
And Carl explains why drug short...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
On the 1st of May, 2018 Scotland was the first country to try a new way of reducing alcohol consumption in its population. It introduced a minimum unit prices for alcohol.
Now new research just published on BMJ.com is looking at the effect of that price increase - and measuring how well it has achieved the goal of reducing drinking in... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
On the 1st of May, 2018 Scotland was the first country to try a new way of reducing alcohol consumption in its population. It introduced a minimum unit prices for alcohol.
Now new research just published on BMJ.com is looking at the effect of that price increase - and measuring how well it has achieved the goal of reducing drinking in Scots.
Peter Anderson, professor of alcohol studies at Newcastle University explains how well the result matched the expectation, an d if the result targeted just lower earners, or all high volume drinkers.
Read the full research:https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5274 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
On the 1st of May, 2018 Scotland was the first country to try a new way of reducing alcohol consumption in its population. It introduced a minimum unit prices for alcohol.
Now new research just published on BMJ.com is looking at the effect of that price increase - and measuring how well it has achieved the goal of reducing drinking in Scots.
Peter Anderson, professor of alcohol studies at Newcastle University explains how well the result matched the expectation, and if the result targeted just lower earners, or all high volume drinkers.
Read the full research:
https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5274 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
A framework convention for alcohol control?
TH Lam (University of Hong Kong) discusses a proposal for an international framework convention for alcohol control, given the totality of recent evidence that there is no safe limit for alcohol consumption. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - April 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Which talking therapies work for people who use drugs and also have alcohol problems?
The Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group studies interventions to help people who have problems with alcohol or who use illicit drugs. In December 2018, these came together in an updated review on psychosocial interventions for people who use drugs and also have alcohol problems. Jan Klimas, from the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use in Vancouver, Canada tells us about the latest evidence in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Drivers' blood alcohol and road-traffic accidents
James Lewsey (University of Glasgow, UK) discusses the impact of a legal change in Scotland in 2014, concerning the lowering of the legal limit for blood alcohol concentration of car drivers and its relation to the frequency of road-traffic accidents. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - December 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening and Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Interview with Susan J. Curry, PhD, author of Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
ICU Ventilation Strategies, Deprescribing in Older Adults, Naloxone Availability, Alcohol Screening Guideline, and more
Editor's Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the November 13, 2018 issue (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Screening and Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
Interview with Susan J. Curry, PhD, author of Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
ICU Ventilation Strategies, Deprescribing in Older Adults, Naloxone Availability, Alcohol Screening Guideline, and more
Editor's Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the November 13, 2018 issue (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
UK children are drinking less and the importance of a publicly provided NHS
Brits have a reputation as Europe ’s boozers - and for good reason, with alcohol consumption higher than much of the rest of the continent. That reputation is extended to our young people too - but is it still deserved? Joanna Inchley, senior research fellow at the University of St Andrews, explains new research on decreasing dri nking -... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
