Mental health in Ukraine
In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud speaks with Dr Orest Suvalo, a psychiatrist based in Ukraine who is coordinating a support centre that has been set up at Lviv central train station. They discuss the impact of the war on the mental health of the people he meets arriving into and passing through the station, on those with mental health and psychiatric diagnoses, as well as on Dr Suvalo himself as he continues to live and work in Ukraine. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Source Type: podcasts
COVID stimulus spending failed to deliver on climate promises
00:47 G20 nations fail to cut emissions in COVID stimulus packagesThe G20 economies spent $14 trillion dollars on recovery packages to escape the global recession driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many governments made pledges to deliver emissions reductions as part of these packages. This week, a team of researchers have analysed the spending to see if these promises were kept.Comment: G20’s US$14-trillion economic stimulus reneges on emissions pledges09:34 Research HighlightsAn artificial nerve cell triggers a Venus flytrap’s snap, and a fossil shows that pterosaurs in the Jurassic period were larger than previously t...
Source: Nature Podcast - March 2, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Methado, methadon ’t, methadone
Later this month sees the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. One of the topics that will be discussed there is harm reduction, and the political will to embrace it.In this podcast, we look at the effects of long term opiate substitution programmes in Muirhouse, Edinburgh. Local GP Roy Robertson discusses the research he conducted there. We also travel to Kiev in Ukraine, where Richard Hurley talks to NGOs and injecting drug users about local harm reduction programmes. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: an overview of reviews (Ukrainian version)
The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group has a collection of dozens of reviews relevant to smoking cessation. In May 2013, it has combined some of these into an overview. Igor Nagrebetskyi from the Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine, tells us more (in Ukrainian).This podcast also available in: read more (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 13, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Cochrane Collaboration Tags: Issues 4 to 6, April to June 2013 Source Type: podcasts
