Keyhole (laparoscopic) surgery through the abdomen for treating urinary incontinence in women
Cochrane Incontinence has produced more than 40 systematic reviews of interventions that might help people suffering from incontinence. In this podcast, one of the group ’s researchers, Fiona Stewart, talks with author Wael Agur, a subspecialist and lead urogynaecologist for NHS Ayrshire& Arran, UK, about the December 2019 update for one of these, looking at the effects of a type of surgery called laparoscopic colposuspension. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?
Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins Sarah to talk about a recent Science paper describing the results of a large study on a blood test for multiple types of cancer. The trial ’s results suggest such a blood test combined with follow-up scans may help detect cancers early, but there is a danger of too many false positives. And postdoctoral researcher Timo Reinhold of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research joins Sarah to talk about his paper on how the Sun is a lot less variable in its magnetic activity compared with similar stars—what does it mean that our Sun is a little bit boring? This week’s episode was ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?
Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins Sarah to talk about a recent Science paper describing the results of a large study on a blood test for multiple types of cancer. The trial’s results suggest such a blood test combined with follow-up scans may help detect cancers early, but there is a danger of too many false positives.
And postdoctoral researcher Timo Reinhold of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research joins Sarah to talk about his paper on how the Sun is a lot less variable in its magnetic activity compared with similar stars—what does it mean that our Sun is a little bit boring?
This ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?
Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins Sarah to talk about a recent Science paper describing the results of a large study on a blood test for multiple types of cancer. The trial’s results suggest such a blood test combined with follow-up scans may help detect cancers early, but there is a danger of too many false positives.
And postdoctoral researcher Timo Reinhold of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research joins Sarah to talk about his paper on how the Sun is a lot less variable in its magnetic activity compared with similar stars—what does it mean that our Sun is a little bit boring?
This week’s episode...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?
Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins Sarah to talk about a recent Science paper describing the results of a large study on a blood test for multiple types of cancer. The trial ’s results suggest such a blood test combined with follow-up scans may help detect cancers early, but there is a danger of too many false positives.
And postdoctoral researcher Timo Reinhold of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research joins Sarah to talk about his paper on how the Sun i s a lot less variable in its magnetic activity compared with similar stars—what does it mean that our Sun is a little bit boring?
This week’s episode w...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
JAMA Internal Medicine : Effect of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women 75 Years and Older
Interview with Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH, author of Effect of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women 75 Years and Older: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial, and Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH, author of The Life and Death of Mammograms in Patients 75 Years and Older—To Screen or Not to Screen? (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - April 20, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Yvonne Coghill is trying to fix racism in the NHS
In this week's special episode of Sharp Scratch, we've got something a little different for you! Last week the panel talked microaggressions, so this week we're hearing from an expert guest who is leading the work the NHS is doing to combat inequality in healthcare.
If you like this special edition, let us know on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter using #SharpScratch
This week's special guest:
Yvonne Coghill, CBE is the director of Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) at NHS England and NHS Improvement. Yvonne has over 20 years’ experience in nursing, before taking up operational and strategic leadership posts.
Duri...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Is vitamin D supplementation beneficial or harmful for women during pregnancy?
Many pregnant women have Vitamin D deficiency, and might consider taking oral supplements to counter this. In July 2019, Cristina Palacios from Florida International University in the USA, and colleagues, updated their Cochrane Review of the evidence. She tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
JAMA Cardiology : Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course
Interview with Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, author of Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course, and Nanette K. Wenger, MD, author of Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes for Women—Biology, Bias, or Both? (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - January 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Talking up your research - Sex makes a difference
As editors, we feel like we ’re spending a lot of time taking the superlatives out from articles - amazing, novel, important… But new research on BMJ.com suggests that we might not be doing that great a job, and that for some reason, papers authored by men tend to have more of them - because men put more in, or maybe a bia s against woman writing in that way.
Marc Lerchenmueller, assistant professor at the University of Mannheim joins us to talk about how they did the research, and what it means for women's careers.
Read the full articlehttps://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talking up your research - Sex makes a difference
As editors, we feel like we’re spending a lot of time taking the superlatives out from articles - amazing, novel, important… But new research on BMJ.com suggests that we might not be doing that great a job, and that for some reason, papers authored by men tend to have more of them - because men put more in, or maybe a bias against woman writing in that way.
Marc Lerchenmueller, assistant professor at the University of Mannheim joins us to talk about how they did the research, and what it means for women's careers.
Read the full article
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
