ID Week 2013: Hot Topics Preview
Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, offers his recommendations for the most exciting sessions coming up at ID Week: antibiotic resistance, emerging infections, hep C, MERS virus, and more. (Source: Medscape HIV AIDS Podcast)
Source: Medscape HIV AIDS Podcast - September 20, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Methado, methadon’t, methadone
Later this month sees the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. One of the topics that will be discussed there is harm reduction, and the political will to embrace it.In this podcast, we look at the effects of long term opiate substitution programmes in Muirhouse, Edinburgh. Local GP Roy Robertson discusses the research he conducted there.... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Methado, methadon ’t, methadone
Later this month sees the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. One of the topics that will be discussed there is harm reduction, and the political will to embrace it.In this podcast, we look at the effects of long term opiate substitution programmes in Muirhouse, Edinburgh. Local GP Roy Robertson discusses the research he conducted there. We also travel to Kiev in Ukraine, where Richard Hurley talks to NGOs and injecting drug users about local harm reduction programmes. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The bridge
This week the print BMJ has a cluster of articles on suicide – one of which talks about the efficacy of physical barriers to prevent suicide from bridges. In the podcast, we’ll hear from Kevin Hines the survivor of such an attempt, and Alys Cole-King, a psychiatrist who wants to break down the stigma of suicide.
We’ll also hear from Gordon Smith, one of the authors of a study looking at a link between the time when a mother gives birth – whether it’s in the normal working week, or out of hours - and the risk of neonatal death.
Finally Richard Hurley tells us about AIDS 2010, the 25 000 delegate conference in Vien...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
30 years of AIDS
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. Bertrand Audoin, from the International AIDS Society, brings us up to date with the latest developments in the fight against the disease.
Also this week, Francesco Capuccio from Warwick University explains the importance of sleep as a “health commodity” and the problems... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
30 years of AIDS
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. Bertrand Audoin, from the International AIDS Society, brings us up to date with the latest developments in the fight against the disease.
Also this week, Francesco Capuccio from Warwick University explains the importance of sleep as a “health commodity” and the problems with its sacrifice, in our increasingly busy lives. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
AIDS at 30
To mark World AIDS Day, the WHO has issued a report outlining policy successes and failures in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Yves Souteyrand, the co-ordinator of the report, joins us to discuss its findings and how to combat the disease in the future.
Alan White, professor of men's health at Leeds Metropolitan University and the author... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
AIDS at 30
To mark World AIDS Day, the WHO has issued a report outlining policy successes and failures in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Yves Souteyrand, the co-ordinator of the report, joins us to discuss its findings and how to combat the disease in the future.
Alan White, professor of men's health at Leeds Metropolitan University and the author of a new European report into men's health, explains why we need to look at men differently.
Finally, renowned surgeon Atul Gawande launches the BMJ's 2011 Christmas appeal, in aid of charity Lifebox, by describing how a cheap reliable pulse oximeter costing £160 should be availa...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Dolutegravir: A New Option in HIV Therapy
Dr. Paul Sax discusses the newest drug approved for the treatment of HIV and how it fits into the current therapeutic landscape. (Source: Medscape HIV AIDS Podcast)
Source: Medscape HIV AIDS Podcast - August 13, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
The BMJ Awards: Medical Team of the Year
The BMJ Awards were held last Thursday. Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor in chief, announced that the Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) was named Medical Team of the Year.
BRINOS (brinos.org.uk) started out in 1988 by setting up joint British and Nepalese surgical camps to treat ear disease among patients living outside the reach of hospitals in the capital of Kathmandu. A national survey in 1991 found that among the 19m people in Nepal, 2.7m were deaf and 1.5m had abnormal ear drums indicative of ear disease. BRINOS has performed more than 4000 major ear operations at 49 surgical day camps since its first expedition in...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 6, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Surgical outcome data
Last week saw the start of a campaign to publish patient death rates for individual surgeons. Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, talks to BMJ editor in chief Fiona Godlee about the initiative and the background to it.
Also, the WHO has launched its Guidelines and Global Progress in HIV/AIDs report. Anne Gulland interviews... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 5, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Surgical outcome data
Last week saw the start of a campaign to publish patient death rates for individual surgeons. Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, talks to BMJ editor in chief Fiona Godlee about the initiative and the background to it.
Also, the WHO has launched its Guidelines and Global Progress in HIV/AIDs report. Anne Gulland interviews Gottfried Hirnschall, a Director of the WHO’s HIV/AIDS Department, and his his scientist colleague, Philippa Easterbrook. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 5, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 244: Back in the CVVR
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove
Guests: Dan Barouch and Jeff Teigler
This episode of TWiV was recorded before an audience at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where Vincent and Alan spoke with Dan and Jeff about AIDS vaccines.
Links for this episode:
Human study of adenovirus 26 HIV-1 envelope vaccine (J Inf Dis)
Seroepidemiology of adenovirus serotypes (Vaccine)
SIV infection associated with expansion of gut virome (Cell, TWiV #204)
Global approach to HIV-1 vaccine development (Immunol Rev)
Innate cytokine responses to adenovi...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 5, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
