Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
On the 1st of May, 2018 Scotland was the first country to try a new way of reducing alcohol consumption in its population. It introduced a minimum unit prices for alcohol.
Now new research just published on BMJ.com is looking at the effect of that price increase - and measuring how well it has achieved the goal of reducing drinking in... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
On the 1st of May, 2018 Scotland was the first country to try a new way of reducing alcohol consumption in its population. It introduced a minimum unit prices for alcohol.
Now new research just published on BMJ.com is looking at the effect of that price increase - and measuring how well it has achieved the goal of reducing drinking in Scots.
Peter Anderson, professor of alcohol studies at Newcastle University explains how well the result matched the expectation, an d if the result targeted just lower earners, or all high volume drinkers.
Read the full research:https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5274 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Minimum unit pricing in Scotland
On the 1st of May, 2018 Scotland was the first country to try a new way of reducing alcohol consumption in its population. It introduced a minimum unit prices for alcohol.
Now new research just published on BMJ.com is looking at the effect of that price increase - and measuring how well it has achieved the goal of reducing drinking in Scots.
Peter Anderson, professor of alcohol studies at Newcastle University explains how well the result matched the expectation, and if the result targeted just lower earners, or all high volume drinkers.
Read the full research:
https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5274 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Routine scale and polish for periodontal health in adults
Many adults in high-income countries will have had a ‘scale and polish’ when they go to the dentist, and some will be offered this routinely. But, is it worthwhile? The latest evidence is in the third update of the Cochrane Review, published in December 2018 and lead author, Thomas Lamont from the University of Dundee in Scotland tells us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Drivers' blood alcohol and road-traffic accidents
James Lewsey (University of Glasgow, UK) discusses the impact of a legal change in Scotland in 2014, concerning the lowering of the legal limit for blood alcohol concentration of car drivers and its relation to the frequency of road-traffic accidents. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - December 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Update from the Scottish Cancer Medicines Outcome Programme
Kelly Baillie, of the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, UK, presents the key findings from the Cancer Medicines Outcome Programme, a collaboration between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Uni...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 10/15/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - October 15, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
ASFH Infectious Uveitis
Guest: John Forrester, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Source: As Seen From Here)
Source: As Seen From Here - June 1, 2018 Category: Opthalmology Authors: JYoungMD at gmail.com Source Type: podcasts
Harry Burns - the social determinants of Scotland
Harry Burns was a surgeon, who gave up his career in that discipline to become a public health doctor. Eventually that lead to him being the last Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and now he ’s professor of global public health at the University of Strathclyde.
Scotland has always had a separate NHS, but since devolution, the parliament there has... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Harry Burns - the social determinants of Scotland
Harry Burns was a surgeon, who gave up his career in that discipline to become a public health doctor. Eventually that lead to him being the last Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and now he’s professor of global public health at the University of Strathclyde.
Scotland has always had a separate NHS, but since devolution, the parliament there has had much more autonomy in running the country - and Harry has seemed to manage to convince them that improving health means improving the social determinants of health.
In this conversation we talk about that link, how his philosophy has affected policy up there, some of the e...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Services for reducing duration of hospital care in people with acute stroke
The Cochrane Stroke Group has produced nearly 200 systematic reviews over the last two decades and many of these have been updated multiple times. Among these is a review of the effects of early discharge services, which was published first in 2001. It was updated in July 2017 and lead author and one of the Co-ordinating Editors for Cochrane Stroke, Peter Langhorne from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, describes these latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Next steps for an innovative electronic holistic care needs assessment tool in Scotland for cancer patients
Following the promising results of initial investigations into the use of an electronic healthcare assessment tool in the delivery of supportive care to lung cancer patients, the tool is going to cont...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 02/22/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - February 22, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Promising POUT: perioperative chemotherapy for upper tract urothelial cancer
The UK was well represented at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium 2018, held in San Francisco, CA. In this video, Robert Jones, PhD, of the University of Glasgow & Beatson West of Scotland Cancer...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 02/19/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - February 19, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
