Does stopping smoking improve mental health?
Alongside its many reviews of interventions to help people quit smoking, the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group published a new review in March 2021 which looks at the effects of quitting smoking on mental health. Co-author, Dr Amanda Farley from the University of Birmingham in the UK tells us about the importance of the review and its findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What are the benefits and risks of using a tourniquet in knee replacement surgery?
The Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group has produced more than 200 reviews of a very wide range of interventions for patients with musculoskeletal problems. In this podcast, senior author Peter Wall, talks with Imran Ahmed, Trainee Orthopaedic Surgeon and NIHR Doctoral Researcher at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in the UK about their December 2020 review of the effects of using a tourniquet in knee replacement surgery. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions
A repository with millions of data points will track immunity and variant spread.To answer the big questions in the pandemic, researchers need access to data. But while a wealth has been collected, much of it isn’t collated or accessible to the people who need it.This week sees the launch of Global.health, a database that aims to collate an enormous amount of anonymized information about individual COVID-19 cases.On this week’s Coronapod we discuss how this database could help answer the biggest questions facing scientists right now, from variants to vaccines – could data change the game?News: Massive Google-funded C...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 26, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions
A repository with millions of data points will track immunity and variant spread.To answer the big questions in the pandemic, researchers need access to data. But while a wealth has been collected, much of it isn’t collated or accessible to the people who need it.This week sees the launch of Global.health, a database that aims to collate an enormous amount of anonymized information about individual COVID-19 cases.On this week’s Coronapod we discuss how this database could help answer the biggest questions facing scientists right now, from variants to vaccines – could data change the game?News: Massive Google-funded C...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 26, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Can symptoms and medical examination accurately diagnose COVID-19?
Cochrane is preparing a special series of reviews to help decision makers deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, and we are keeping these up to date as new evidence becomes available. One of these reviews examines the accuracy of using signs and symptoms to diagnose whether someone has the disease. It was first published in June 2020 and has been updated in February 2021. Here ’s the lead author, Thomas Struyf from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
How accurate are tests (Xpert Ultra and Xpert MTB/RIF) for diagnosing tuberculosis outside the lungs (extrapulmonary tuberculosis) and rifampicin resistance?
More than 140 Cochrane Reviews investigate the accuracy of diagnostic tests, covering a very wide range of conditions. One of these reviews, on a test used to detect tuberculosis, was updated in January 2021. The first author, Mikashmi Kohli from McGill University in Montreal Canada, tells us about the updating of the review and what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Can symptoms and medical examination accurately diagnose COVID-19?
Cochrane is preparing a special series of reviews to help decision makers deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, and we are keeping these up to date as new evidence becomes available. One of these reviews examines the accuracy of using signs and symptoms to diagnose whether someone has the disease. It was first published in June 2020 and has been updated in February 2021. Here ’s the lead author, Thomas Struyf from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
How accurate are tests (Xpert Ultra and Xpert MTB/RIF) for diagnosing tuberculosis outside the lungs (extrapulmonary tuberculosis) and rifampicin resistance?
More than 140 Cochrane Reviews investigate the accuracy of diagnostic tests, covering a very wide range of conditions. One of these reviews, on a test used to detect tuberculosis, was updated in January 2021. The first author, Mikashmi Kohli from McGill University in Montreal Canada, tells us about the updating of the review and what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Vitamins and minerals for subfertility in women
Up to one in four couples planning a baby may have difficulty conceiving. Several interventions are available that might help and Cochrane has reviewed many of these. In August 2020, our review of antioxidants for female subfertility was updated and we asked one of the authors, Dr Rebecca Mackenzie-Proctor from the Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand to tell us about the rationale for the review and the latest evidence. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Remotely delivered information, training and support for informal caregivers of people with dementia
Alongside many Cochrane reviews of treatments for people with dementia, there are some that look at the effects of interventions that might help the people who care for them. These were added to in January 2021 with a new review of interventions designed to be delivered remotely. Here ’s one of the authors, Jenny McCleery from the Oxford Health NHS Trust in England, to tell us about the findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What are the benefits and risks of giving corticosteroids to pregnant women at risk of premature birth?
One of the earliest Cochrane Reviews studied the effects of steroids for women at risk of a pre-term delivery, and built on an even earlier review. The Cochrane Review has been updated several times and the most recent version was published in December 2020. Two of the authors discuss the latest evidence in this podcast, starting with Emma McGoldrick from the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, who ’s talking with Fiona Stewart from the Department of Women's and Children's Health at The University of Liverpool. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
