The ethics of placebo
In a clinical trial, we usually think of risk in terms of the new active compound - will it have unwanted effects. However, two analyses in The BMJ are concerned about the risk associated with the control arm.
Robin Emsley is a professor of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, he and colleagues have written about the risk... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The ethics of placebo
In a clinical trial, we usually think of risk in terms of the new active compound - will it have unwanted effects. However, two analyses in The BMJ are concerned about the risk associated with the control arm.
Robin Emsley is a professor of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, he and colleagues have written about the risk associated with forgoing treatment in patients with schizophrenia.
Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4728
Jonathan Mendel, lecturer in human geography at the University of Dundee, and Ben Goldacre, senior clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford, ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 16, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 8 September 2016
This week, solving ethical dilemmas Star Trek style, farming festivals boost yield, and three scientists on their sci-fi inspirations. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 7, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 8 September 2016
This week, solving ethical dilemmas Star Trek style, farming festivals boost yield, and three scientists on their sci-fi inspirations. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 7, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 8 September 2016
This week, solving ethical dilemmas Star Trek style, farming festivals boost yield, and three scientists on their sci-fi inspirations.
For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 7, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity
"I say to all Australian doctors - young, old, the political and the apolitical - that on this depends not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity. "
Following the leaked emails published in The Guardian newspaper, alleging abuse of asylum seekers detained by the Australian government on the Pacific island of Nauru,... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 30, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity
"I say to all Australian doctors - young, old, the political and the apolitical - that on this depends not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity. "
Following the leaked emails published in The Guardian newspaper, alleging abuse of asylum seekers detained by the Australian government on the Pacific island of Nauru, David Berger joins us again to say it is time that doctors take a stand and march to protest against this treatment.
Read his ful l editorial:
http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4606
Listen to the head to head debating if doctors should boycott working at the detention centres...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 30, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity
"I say to all Australian doctors - young, old, the political and the apolitical - that on this depends not just our ethical credibility as a profession, but our shared humanity. "
Following the leaked emails published in The Guardian newspaper, alleging abuse of asylum seekers detained by the Australian government on the Pacific island of Nauru, David Berger joins us again to say it is time that doctors take a stand and march to protest against this treatment.
Read his full editorial:
http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4606
Listen to the head to head debating if doctors should boycott working at the detention centres: ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 30, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Dr. Gurr Talks with Dr. Robert Reiner about Virtual Reality Therapy
Dr. Howard Gurr Talks with Dr. Robert Reiner about Virtual reality Therapy(VRT). Dr. Reiner has been using VRT for many years in his practice in New York City.
Here is Dr. Reiner's bio:
Robert H. Reiner Ph.D., BCN, BCB, Executive Director and founder of Behavioral Associates (BA), has been practicing psychology since 1981. After receiving his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, he went on to get his Ph. D. in clinical psychology at the University of Alabama and serve his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital. He currently serves on the faculty for the Department of Psychiatry at New York Univers...
Source: The Shrink Is In - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts
"The information we get can be harmfull"; Informed consent is not a panacea
Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us.
But Minna Johansson, GP trainee and PhD student at the University of Gothenburg, argues that preventive medicine and expanding disease definitions have changed the ethical premises of informed choice and our good intentions may... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
”The information we get can be harmfull”; Informed consent is not a panacea
Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us.
But Minna Johansson, GP trainee and PhD student at the University of Gothenburg, argues that preventive medicine and expanding disease definitions have changed the ethical premises of informed choice and our good intentions may inadvertently advance overmedicalisation.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2230 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Placebo Research Update with Fabrizio Benedetti (BSP 127)
I have just posted a new interview with Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti, one of the world's leading researchers of the neurobiology of placebos. Dr. Benedetti emphasized that there is no such thing as THE placebo effect, because there are multiple placebo EFFECTS with widely varying mechanisms. For example, in pain relief there are at least two different mechanisms: one involving endogenous opioids while the other involves endogenous cannaboids (marijuana-like compounds).We also talked about some his latest research into placebo effects in the context of high altitude headaches. Here again, multiple pathways have been discovered. W...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 1, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
