Blood pressure targets in people with cardiovascular disease
Many people with heart or vascular problems also have high blood pressure, and the latest update of the Cochrane Review of using blood pressure targets in their treatment was published in November 2022. Here ' s lead author, Luis Carlos Saiz from the Navarre Health Service in Pamplona Spain, to tell us about the review and its latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Opioid maintenance medicines for the treatment of dependence on opioid pain medicines
Some patients who take pharmaceutical opioids to treat pain become dependent on them and might need to switch to medications such as opioid agonists. In September 2022, an updated Cochrane Review brought together the relevant evidence and, in this podcast, Addiction Psychiatrist Shalini Arunogiri from Monash University and Turning Point in Melbourne talks with lead author, Suzanne Nielsen (or Suzi) from the Monash Addiction Research Centre in Australia. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - December 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Which medicines, taken by mouth or injected, work best to treat a skin condition called plaque psoriasis?
The Cochrane Skin Group has produced some of the largest Cochrane reviews, providing a “one stop shop” for people interested in a wide range of interventions for a particular skin condition. One such example is the review of systemic medicines to treat psoriasis, which was updated for the fourth time in May 2022. We asked two of the authors, Laurence Le Cleach, head of the French satellite of the Cochrane Skin group and dermatologist at Henri Mondor hospital, AP-HP in France and Emilie Sbidian, a dermatologist working at the same hospital, to describe the findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Hydroxyurea (also known as hydroxycarbamide) for people with sickle cell disease
Several Cochrane Reviews evaluate treatments for sickle cell disease, which can cause a huge burden for patients and their families. The review on the effects of hydroxyurea was updated in September 2022 by Angela Rankine-Mullings from the Sickle Cell Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research at The University of the West Indies in Jamaica and Sarah Nevitt, from the Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool in UK. We asked Angela to outline the need for the review and its latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What is the accuracy of different combinations of ultrasound imaging and blood tests to diagnose ovarian cancer in women before and after the menopause?
Hundreds of Cochrane reviews have been published over the last 25 years relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of cancers, including ovarian cancer. In a new review from July 2022, Clare Davenport, from the University of Birmingham in the UK, and colleagues examined the evidence on the use of multiple tests to detect it and she tells us what they found in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Do school-based physical activity interventions increase moderate to vigorous physical activity and improve physical fitness among children and adolescents?
Identifying ways to help people be physically active should help improve their health and well-being, and prevent premature deaths. There are several relevant Cochrane reviews and one published in September 2021 looks at school-based programs. Here ' s the review ' s first author, Sarah Neil-Sztramko, from McMaster University in Canada to tell us about the importance of the review and its findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
On this week’s show: Rising waters and intense storms make siting high-performance computer centers a challenge, and matching up spider silk DNA with spider silk properties
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First up on the podcast this week, News Intern Jacklin Kwan talks with host Sarah Crespi about how and where to build high-performance computing facilities as climate change brings extreme conditions to current locations.
Spiders are creeping into the show this week. Kazuharu Arakawa, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Bioscience at Keio University, discusses his Science Advances paper on collecting spider silks and the genes...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 13, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
On this week’s show: Rising waters and intense storms make siting high-performance computer centers a challenge, and matching up spider silk DNA with spider silk properties
(Main Text)
First up on the podcast this week, News Intern Jacklin Kwan talks with host Sarah Crespi about how and where to build high-performance computing facilities as climate change brings extreme conditions to current locations.
Spiders are creeping into the show this week. Kazuharu Arakawa, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Bioscience at Keio University, discusses his Science Advances paper on collecting spider silks and the genes...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 13, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Periodic change of body position under phototherapy in term and preterm neonates with hyperbilirubinaemia
Some new-born babies suffer from jaundice and there are several Cochrane reviews of possible ways to treat it, including the use of phototherapy. These reviews were added to in March 2022 with a new review of the effects of changing the baby ’s position under the phototherapy. Lead author, Anu Thukral from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences tells us about the findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Virtual library of LSD-like drugs could reveal new antidepressants
In this episode:00:46 A virtual chemical library uncovers potential antidepressantsCertain psychedelic drugs are of interest to researchers due to their promising antidepressant effects. To help speed up the discovery of molecules with useful properties, researchers have built a virtual library of 75 million compounds related to these drugs. This approach yielded two molecules that showed antidepressant properties in mice, but without the hallucinogenic activity of psychedelic drugs.Research article: Kaplan et al.Research Briefing: Bespoke library docking for 5-HT2A receptor agonists with antidepressant activity08:25 ...
Source: Nature Podcast - October 5, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Mental health support in the community for refugee children and adolescents in high-income countries
The Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group has published more than 200 reviews and, in May 2022, they added a new review of community ‐based interventions for improving the mental health of refugee children and adolescents in high‐income countries. One of the authors, Noortje Uphoff who works with the Group at the University of York in the UK, tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Which combinations of medicines are best for the prevention and treatment of anaemia in people with cancer?
Cochrane has produced several systematic reviews of interventions that might help people suffering from anaemia. In this podcast, Claire Iannizzi talks with lead author Anne Adams, both from the University Hospital Cologne in Germany, about a review of intravenous, oral or no iron in combination with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for cancer patients with anaemia, which was published for the first time in June 2022. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - September 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Control interventions in randomised trials for people with a mental health disorder
The Cochrane Methodology Review Group produces reviews that examine the methods used in research and, in April 2022, we published a new review of the effects of having different types of control group in trials among people with mental health disorders. Here ' s lead author, Erlend Faltinsen from Cochrane Denmark, to tell us about the review and its findings (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - September 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
How accurate are rapid antigen tests for diagnosing COVID-19?
Several of the Cochrane reviews in our collection for COVID-19 relate to diagnosis and the second update for one of these, on the use of rapid point-of-care antigen tests was published in July 2022. Here ' s lead author Jacqueline Dinnes from the University of Birmingham in the UK to tell us what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - September 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Rho kinase inhibitors for primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension
Glaucoma is a common eye condition and a major cause of blindness. There are several Cochrane reviews of ways to treat it and these were added to in June 2022 with a new review of a class of drugs called rho kinase inhibitors. We asked lead author, Josefine Freiberg from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark to tell us about the evidence in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - September 2, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
