Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists
Many surgeries have been cancelled during the pandemic, with good reason, as early data showed the increase in mortality associated with a coronavirus infection, but now waiting lists grow, and there are questions about how the NHS will pick up the slack.
In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to the full panel; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton.
They are joined by Mary Venn, research fellow, and honora...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research
The pandemic's unequal toll on the research community, and a newly discovered mitochondria-like symbiosis.In this episode:00:48 The pandemic's unequal toll on researchersAlthough 2020 saw a huge uptick in the numbers of research papers submitted, these increases were not evenly distributed among male and female scientists. We look at how this could widen existing disparities in science, and damage future career prospects.Editorial: COVID is amplifying the inadequacy of research-evaluation processes09:18 Research HighlightsHow a parasite can make viral infections more deadly, and the first known space hurricane.Research Hig...
Source: Nature Podcast - March 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
COVID, 2020 and a year of lost research
The pandemic's unequal toll on the research community, and a newly discovered mitochondria-like symbiosis.In this episode:00:48 The pandemic's unequal toll on researchersAlthough 2020 saw a huge uptick in the numbers of research papers submitted, these increases were not evenly distributed among male and female scientists. We look at how this could widen existing disparities in science, and damage future career prospects.Editorial: COVID is amplifying the inadequacy of research-evaluation processes09:18 Research HighlightsHow a parasite can make viral infections more deadly, and the first known space hurricane.Research Hig...
Source: Nature Podcast - March 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Will COVID-19 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Disease?
Interview with Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil, author of The Potential Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will SARS-CoV-2 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Infection? (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Funding of Pharmaceutical Innovation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interview with James C. Robinson, PhD, author of Funding of Pharmaceutical Innovation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network 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
Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus
What’s the endgame for the COVID-19 pandemic? Is a world without SARS-CoV-2 possible, or is the virus here to stay?A recent Nature survey suggests that the majority of experts expect the virus to become endemic, circulating in the world’s population for years to come.But what does this mean? On this week’s episode of Coronapod, we ask what a future with an ever-present virus could look like.News Feature: The coronavirus is here to stay — here’s what that means See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - February 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus
What’s the endgame for the COVID-19 pandemic? Is a world without SARS-CoV-2 possible, or is the virus here to stay?A recent Nature survey suggests that the majority of experts expect the virus to become endemic, circulating in the world’s population for years to come.But what does this mean? On this week’s episode of Coronapod, we ask what a future with an ever-present virus could look like.News Feature: The coronavirus is here to stay — here’s what that means
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - February 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
Jeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.www.bmj.com/coronavirus (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
Jeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse
In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton. This week our special guest is Rachel Clarke, author and palliative care specialist.The panel discuss how end of life care has changed in the pandemic, and how clinicians have become targets of abuse on social media, for speaking out about things like masks and hospital capacity. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
