Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Citizen juries
This week we ’re at the over diagnosis conference in Quebec Canada, Preventing overdiangosis is a forum to discuss the harms associated with using uncertain methods to look for disease in apparently healthy people - and is part of the BMJ’s too much medicine campaign.
One of the ways in which the public’ s attitudes and wishes around health is measured are citizen or community juries - set up in a similar way to a criminal jury - with an information gathering, and a deliberation phase - recently one of these citizen juries discussed, whether abortion should be allowed in Ireland (they decided “ye s”).We're joine...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Citizen juries
This week we’re at the over diagnosis conference in Quebec Canada, Preventing overdiangosis is a forum to discuss the harms associated with using uncertain methods to look for disease in apparently healthy people - and is part of the BMJ’s too much medicine campaign.
One of the ways in which the public’s attitudes and wishes around health is measured are citizen or community juries - set up in a similar way to a criminal jury - with an information gathering, and a deliberation phase - recently one of these citizen juries discussed, whether abortion should be allowed in Ireland (they decided “yes”).
We're joined...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Are there ways in which workplace bullying can be prevented?
The Cochrane Work Group prepares reviews of a wide variety of topics related to ways in which workers ’ health and safety, and wellbeing could be improved. These were added to in January 2017 with a review of interventions intended to prevent bullying in the workplace. The lead author, Patricia Gillen from Ulster University in Northern Ireland tells us what they found in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Early additional food and fluids for healthy breastfed full-term infants
It is generally recommended that babies should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, but most are given some additional fluids or foods during this period. In August 2016, Hazel Smith from Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Dublin and Genevieve Becker from BEST services in Galway in Ireland updated the Cochrane Review of the randomised trials and we asked Hazel to tell us about their current findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Epilepsy in pregnancy
In every 1000 pregnancies, between two and five infants are born to women with epilepsy. For such women, pregnancy can be a time of anxiety over maternal and fetal wellbeing.
In 96% of pregnancies they will deliver a healthy child. However, some women will experience an increase in seizure frequency, which can be harmful for the mother or fetus, and evidence comes from observational study and registry data suggests some antiepileptic drugs are associated with an increased risk of congenital and neurodevelopmental abnormalities.
Michael Kinney, specialist registrar in neurology, and James Morrow, principal investigator of...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 21, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Managing multimorbidity in primary care
Multimorbidity presents a number of different challenges, for the patients living with the conditions, but also for the health professionals caring for them in systems that often are not designed with these more complex needs in mind.
Emma Wallace, general practice lecturer, and Susan Smith, a professor of general practice at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical School join us to discuss how to work within the system, and what their dream scenario for care would be.
Read the full clinical review:http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h176 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - January 23, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Managing multimorbidity in primary care
Multimorbidity presents a number of different challenges, for the patients living with the conditions, but also for the health professionals caring for them in systems that often are not designed with these more complex needs in mind.
Emma Wallace, general practice lecturer, and Susan Smith, a professor of general practice at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical School join us to discuss how to work within the system, and what their dream scenario for care would be.
Read the full clinical review:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h176 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - January 23, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Spotlight: breast cancer action
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT
MARISSA LEVESQUE
Young Adult Suvivor, Breast Cancer
ANGELA WALL PHD
Communications Manager
Breast Cancer Action
KIM IRISH JD
Program Manager
Breast Cancer Action
CAITLIN CARMODY
Membership Coordinator
Breast Cancer Action (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - October 11, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
Pink nausea
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT
ERIN ELOISE TULBERG
Young Adult Survivor, Breast Cancer
BARBARA A. BRENNER, J.D.
Executive Director
Breast Cancer Action
KIMBERLY IRISH
Program Manager
Breast Cancer Action
ANGELA WALL
Communictions Manager
Breast Cancer Action (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - October 26, 2010 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
ASFH Is Thygeson ’s Caused By HSV?
Guest: Paul Connell, MD MSc MRCOphthRoyal Victoria Eye and Ear HospitalDublin, Ireland (Source: As Seen From Here)
Source: As Seen From Here - July 29, 2007 Category: Opthalmology Authors: JYoungMD at gmail.com Source Type: podcasts
Refractive Lens Exchange
Paper Discussed: Horgan N, Condon PI, Beatty S
Refractive lens exchange in high myopia: long term follow up
British Journal of Ophthalmology, June 2005, 89(6) p670-2
Guests: Noel Horgan, MD
Specialist Registrar
Matter Hospital
Dublin, Ireland
Jonathan Talamo, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Marc Odrich, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Columbia University School of Medicine
New York, NY (Source: As Seen From Here)
Source: As Seen From Here - July 10, 2005 Category: Opthalmology Authors: JYoungMD at gmail.com Source Type: podcasts
