Elective ventilation and the future of medical professionalism
Is elective ventilation an acceptable way to increase organs available for transplant? Duncan Jarvies discusses the ethics with Dominic Wilkinson (associate professor of neonatal medicine and bioethics, and consultant neonatologist, at the University of Adelaide).
And Harriet Vickers talks to Iona Heath (president of the Royal College of General Practitioners) and David Haslam (president of the British Medical Association) about how the NHS reforms fundamentally threaten medical professionalism. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Are statins still safe?
Keith Fox, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, and Rory Collins, co-director of the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, discuss the safety of statins, and how clever prescribing can overcome worries about myopathy. Also this week, Tony Delamothe, BMJ deputy editor, explains why the... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Are statins still safe?
Keith Fox, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, and Rory Collins, co-director of the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, discuss the safety of statins, and how clever prescribing can overcome worries about myopathy. Also this week, Tony Delamothe, BMJ deputy editor, explains why the sudden interest in atrial fibrillation is making him queasy. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Stayin' Alive, in the cardboard city
A head to head article this week asks: "Does celebrity involvement in public health campaigns deliver long term benefit? ”. The British Heart Foundation’s Hands Only CPR campaign, featuring Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones, seems to be having positive effects. Maura Gillespie, head of policy and advocacy at the BHF, explains why.
Also this week, care... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Stayin ’ Alive, in the cardboard city
A head to head article this week asks: "Does celebrity involvement in public health campaigns deliver long term benefit?”. The British Heart Foundation’s Hands Only CPR campaign, featuring Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones, seems to be having positive effects. Maura Gillespie, head of policy and advocacy at the BHF, explains why.
Also this week, care for the homeless is often fragmented and transient. A team at University College Hospital in London is trying to unite the disparate agencies involved to ensure long term medical and social care for these vulnerable people. They tell us how their pilot service has improved outc...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Smoking in Japan
Deborah Cohen explains how a joint BMJ and Daily Telegraph investigation helped uncover problems with device regulation in Europe. Previous research has shown smoking reduces life expectancy by about a decade, but only by four years if you are Japanese. Sarah Darby, from the University of Oxford, explains why her new research shows they are actually just as unhealthy as their British counterparts. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The BMJ Awards: Medical Team of the Year
The BMJ Awards were held last Thursday. Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor in chief, announced that the Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) was named Medical Team of the Year.
BRINOS (brinos.org.uk) started out in 1988 by setting up joint British and Nepalese surgical camps to treat ear disease among patients living outside the reach of hospitals... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 6, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The BMJ Awards: Medical Team of the Year
The BMJ Awards were held last Thursday. Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor in chief, announced that the Britain Nepal Otology Service (BRINOS) was named Medical Team of the Year.
BRINOS (brinos.org.uk) started out in 1988 by setting up joint British and Nepalese surgical camps to treat ear disease among patients living outside the reach of hospitals in the capital of Kathmandu. A national survey in 1991 found that among the 19m people in Nepal, 2.7m were deaf and 1.5m had abnormal ear drums indicative of ear disease. BRINOS has performed more than 4000 major ear operations at 49 surgical day camps since its first expedition in...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 6, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Sexual dysfunction in first-episode psychosis
The high prevalence of sexual dysfunction in people with psychosis has often been attributed solely to the side-effects of antipsychotic medication, and less is known about the rates of sexual dysfunction in prodromal and first-episode psychosis. In this podcast, Dr Oliver Howes and Dr Tiago Reis Marques discuss the findings of their recent study into this area, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - November 20, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts
ASFH Macular Folds
Guest: Roger Wong, MD
Vitreoretinal Service
Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust
Ophthalmology Department
St. Thomas' Hospital
London, United Kingdom (Source: As Seen From Here)
Source: As Seen From Here - June 3, 2012 Category: Opthalmology Authors: JYoungMD at gmail.com Source Type: podcasts
ASFH When Anti-VEGF Agents Fail
Guset: Alexandros N. Stangos, MD, FEBO
Senior Medical Retina Fellow
St. Paul's Eye Unit
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom (Source: As Seen From Here)
Source: As Seen From Here - December 17, 2010 Category: Opthalmology Authors: JYoungMD at gmail.com Source Type: podcasts
Social intervention for British Pakistani women with depression
The mental health needs of people require input at different levels: biological, psychological and social. Whilst a lot of attention is being paid to biological and psychological interventions, social interventions at a community level is still in its infancy. Dr Nusrat Husain and his colleagues have conducted a randomised control trial looking at social interventions for British Pakistani women with depression. In this podcast he talks about the study design, the findings and the way forward for social intervention. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - November 11, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts
ASFH Floppy Eyelid Syndrome: the solution
Guest: Daniel Ezra, MA, MRCOphth
Fellow and Lecturer in oculoplastics and orbital surgery
Moorfields Eye Hospital
University college London
Biomedical research centre for Ophthalmology
London, England
United Kingdom (Source: As Seen From Here)
Source: As Seen From Here - July 5, 2010 Category: Opthalmology Authors: JYoungMD at gmail.com Source Type: podcasts
