Are corticosteroids (anti-inflammatory medicines) given orally or by injection an effective treatment for people with COVID-19?
Cochrane has produced several reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2021, we published the first version of a living systematic review on systemic corticosteroids and, in this podcast, the first authors, Mirko Griesel of the University of Leipzig Medical Center and Carina Wagner of the University Hospital in Cologne, Germany, talk about the evidence they ’ve found and the potential effects of these drugs. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism
On this week’s show: The best of our online stories, what we know about the effects of cannabinoids, and the last in our series of books on race and science
First, Online News Editor David Grimm brings the top online stories of the year—from headless slugs to Dyson spheres. You can find out the other top stories and the most popular online story of the year here.
Then, Tibor Harkany, a professor of molecular neuroscience at the Medical University of Vienna’s Center for Brain Research, talks with host Sarah Crespi about the state of marijuana research. Pot has been legalized in many places, and many peop...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - December 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism
On this week’s show: The best of our online stories, what we know about the effects of cannabinoids, and the last in our series of books on race and science
First, Online News Editor David Grimm brings the top online stories of the year—from headless slugs to Dyson spheres. You can find out the other top stories and the most popular online story of the year here.
Then, Tibor Harkany, a professor of molecular neuroscience at the Medical University of Vienna’s Center for Brain Research, talks with host Sarah Crespi about the state of marijuana research. Pot has been legalized in many places, and many people take cann...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - December 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
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Source: Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library - December 21, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: dtrainrafik3 Tags: 65 Source Type: podcasts
The effects of primary-level workers on people with mental disorders and distress in low- and middle-income countries
In many settings where access to health care is limited, governments are looking for effective and efficient ways to deliver routine health services. To help with this, the Cochrane EPOC Group is producing a series of reviews on task shifting the delivery of care to healthcare providers with lower levels of training. In August 2021, they published an update to the 2013 Cochrane Review of the effects of engaging community ‐based primary-level workers in helping people with mental health disorders or distress in low and middle-income countries. We asked one of the main authors, Weng Yee Chin from the University of Hong Kon...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation
There are many Cochrane Reviews of ways to help smokers to quit. One of these, on research into interventions that might help in reducing any subsequent weight gain was updated in October 2021. Annika Theodoulou from the University of Oxford in the UK worked on the update and tells us what they found in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Can music interventions benefit people with cancer?
Music therapy is used for a variety of conditions and several Cochrane Reviews examine its effects. A team of music therapists with expertise in the use of music therapy with medical patients updated their review for cancer patients in October 2021. Joke Bradt from the department of Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA tells us what they found in this Evidence Pod. She conducted the review with Cheryl Dileo from Temple University in Philadelphia, Katherine Myers-Coffman from Molloy College in Rockville Center, and Jacelyn Biondo, postdoctoral fellow in the department of Creative Arts Therapies ...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Exercise for treatment of chronic low back pain
Chronic low back pain is a very common health problem and there are many relevant reviews in the Cochrane Library. A new review, of nearly 250 studies of the effects of exercise, was added to the Library in September 2021. Toby Lasserson, Deputy Editor in Chief of the Library spoke with lead author, Jill Hayden from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada about the review and its findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Remdesivir to treat people with COVID-19
Cochrane is producing a series of living reviews relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and, in August 2021, we published the first version of our review on remdesivir. We asked one of the authors, Felicitas Grundeis from the University of Leipzig Medical Center in Germany to tell us about the need for the review and its results. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
CAR T-cell therapy for people with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma which returns after treatment or no longer responds to treatment
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is a fast-growing cancer of the lymphatic system. A new Cochrane Review from September 2021 looks at the evidence on the effects of one treatment, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for people whose disease relapses or does not respond to other treatments. We asked the lead author, Moritz Ernst from the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne in Germany to tell us what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and overdiagnosis.
In this month ’s Talk evidence, we’re going back to our roots and avoiding covid - so sit back and listen to Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross discuss a new nutrition study to prevent fractures in older adults by eating dairy, and a meta-analysis which helps you choose pain relief medications for management of ost eoarthritis.
We’ll hear from Steven Woloshin about the virtual Overdiagnosis conference, and why he’s so excited about a new category in the National Library of Medicine.
Finally, we have a study on urinary retention and risk of cancer that has been over 25 years in the making.
Reading list;
Effect of di...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and overdiagnosis.
In this month’s Talk evidence, we’re going back to our roots and avoiding covid - so sit back and listen to Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross discuss a new nutrition study to prevent fractures in older adults by eating dairy, and a meta-analysis which helps you choose pain relief medications for management of osteoarthritis.
We’ll hear from Steven Woloshin about the virtual Overdiagnosis conference, and why he’s so excited about a new category in the National Library of Medicine.
Finally, we have a study on urinary retention and risk of cancer that has been over 25 years in the making.
Reading list;
Effect of dieta...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss fossilized footprints left on a lake shore in North America sometime before the end of Last Glacial Maximum —possibly the earliest evidence for humans on the continent. Read the research. Next, Paolo Cherubini, a senior scientist in the dendrosciences research group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, discusses using tree rings to date and authenticate 17th and 18th c entury violins worth millions of dollars. Finally, in this month’s installment of the series of book interviews on race and science, guest host A...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 29, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
