Travellers ’ diarrhoea
Travellers’ diarrhoea is one of the most common illnesses in people who travel internationally, and depending on destination affects 20-60% of the more than 800 million travellers each year. In most cases the diarrhoea occurs in people who travel to areas with poor food and water hygiene.
Mike Brown, consultant in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explains the approach to the prevention and treatment of diarrhoea in travellers.
Read the full review:
http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1937 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 13, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Methodological gloss won't fix a rubbish evidence base
Information on the effectiveness and safety of healthcare should be valid, precise, up to date, clear, and freely available. Currently none of these criteria are fully satisfied, and Cochrane systematic reviews are not the solution.
Ian Roberts, co-director of the clinical trials unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joins... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 11, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Methodological gloss won't fix a rubbish evidence base
Information on the effectiveness and safety of healthcare should be valid, precise, up to date, clear, and freely available. Currently none of these criteria are fully satisfied, and Cochrane systematic reviews are not the solution.
Ian Roberts, co-director of the clinical trials unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joins... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 11, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Methodological gloss won ’t fix a rubbish evidence base
Information on the effectiveness and safety of healthcare should be valid, precise, up to date, clear, and freely available. Currently none of these criteria are fully satisfied, and Cochrane systematic reviews are not the solution.
Ian Roberts, co-director of the clinical trials unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joins us to describe what the Cochrane Injuries Group is doing to address some of these problems.
Read the full analysis article:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2463 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 11, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Investigating UTIs in older adults
UTIs are often diagnosed in secondary care, but often that diagnosis isn't accurate. In this podcast Gavin Barlow from the Department of infection and tropical medicine at Hull& East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust joins us to discuss when and how to test for the infection .
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Investigation of suspected urinary tract... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 22, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Investigating UTIs in older adults
UTIs are often diagnosed in secondary care, but often that diagnosis isn't accurate. In this podcast Gavin Barlow from the Department of infection and tropical medicine at Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust joins us to discuss when and how to test for the infection.
Read the full clinical review
Investigation of suspected urinary tract infection in older people http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3861 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 22, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Crash-2
In December 2012, a Cochrane Review brought together the results of clinical trials that had looked at the effects of blood-clot promoting drugs on patients who were bleeding. The review was dominated by the large, CRASH-2 trial. In this podcast, Mike Clarke speaks with Ian Roberts, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England, about both the trial and the review. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 19, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Paolo Tags: International Clinical Trials Day 2014 Source Type: podcasts
Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neuroogical and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries
Non-specialist health workers, and other professionals, such as teachers, may have an important role to play in delivering mental health care to people with mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Nadja van Ginneken from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England, and a team from India, the UK, Norway and South Africa, published a new Cochrane Review in November 2013 of how effective these non-specialist health workers are. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 22, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Cochrane Collaboration Tags: Issue 10 to 12, October to December 2013 Source Type: podcasts
Radical reforms
This week we ’re joined by Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the Loncon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He’s also research director of the European observatory on health systems and policies, a group that promotes evidence based healthcare policies in Europe.
We’ll be discussing the effect the squeeze in funding is... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Radical reforms
This week we’re joined by Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the Loncon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He’s also research director of the European observatory on health systems and policies, a group that promotes evidence based healthcare policies in Europe.
We’ll be discussing the effect the squeeze in funding is having on health care in Europe, and the various strategies different countries are using to save money. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
H7N9, and NHS standardised mortality rates
An epidemiological investigation on bmj.com discusses the first probable case of human to human transmission of novel avian influenza A (H7N9). The author of the accompanying editorial, James Rudge, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explains what this means for public health.
Also this week, we know that standardised... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 12, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
