Medicine and Science from The BMJ
Episodes
China
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens. We’ll be finding out from Scott Roze...
Regulation, regulation, regulation
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A BMJ investigation this week raises concerns about the ability of the US Food and Drug Administration to monitor the safety of medical devices throug...
Risky business 2010
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week the podcast’s all about risk, as we bring you two reports from Risky Business, the conference where speakers from a wide range of hazardou...
Refer, or not to refer...
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dulcie McBride, a consultant in public health at University College London, joins us to talk about the UK’s practice variation in referrin...
A tale of two cycles
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Jack Wennberg, author of the Dartmoth Atlas of Healthcare. He and Fiona Godlee discuss his work, and what the UK can learn...
Christmas 2010
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s cracker of a show… Firstly, could how you park your car indicate your choice of specialty? Secondly, how a team of scientists manag...
And that was 2010
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In the final BMJ podcast of 2010, David Payne asks the Independent’s Jeremy Laurance about the year past, and BMJ authors how they feel going into t...
Sting in the tale
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we find out the best way to treat a Mesobuthus tamulus (indian red scorpion) sting. We also discuss the current state of healthcare in Iraq;...
Dowsing for data
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast we hear from Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration about the problem of publication bias – and a tool that could help...
Andrew Lansley’s apples and oranges
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Lansley said this week his NHS reforms are needed because the UK’s health outcomes are amongst the poorest in Europe. However John Appleby, c...
Judging the nudging
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast Theresa Marteau, director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, wonders if a nudge is eno...
Overusing oxygen
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast Andrew Farmer from the National Institute of Health Research, Health Technology Assessment programme (NIHR HTA), tackles unce...
Diabetes
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we find out about diabetes. Mabel Chew, our Sydney based associate editor, discovers why it’s important not to miss the diagnosis of type ...
A hearty drink
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast we find out from Susan Brien and Paul Ronksley about the cardioprotective effects of alcohol. Also, Annabel Ferriman tells us...
Food for thought
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Between March 2010 and March 2011 the cost of maize and wheat doubled. This is just the latest in a series of price hikes in food staples. In an edito...
Watching waiting times
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Johan Sundstrom explains how blood pressure in adolescents effects mortality in adults. And John Appleby, chief economist o...
30 years of AIDS
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. Bertrand Audoin, from the International AIDS Society, brings us up to date ...
From Fukushima
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As the world’s attention turns to Fukushima, we hear from Ryuki Kassai, Director of Community and Family Medicine at Fukushima Medical University, a...
NHS reforms round table
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week the British government has tabled an amendment to remove maximum pricing from the Health and Social Care Bill. We convened a round table dis...
Trade in generics
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International, and Hans Hogerzeil, director of essential medicines and pharmaceutical policies at the World Health Organ...
BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Patients
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
At BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the backgrou...
BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Practicalities
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
At BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the backgrou...
BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Background
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
At BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the backgrou...
Shared decision making
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast is a summary of the shared decision making round table - looking at it’s history, practicalities of implementation and how to ...
ACE to ARB
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Should we screen for prostate cancer? A study published on bmj.com suggests that it doesn’t improve survival rates, and could lead to over treatment...
Understanding information
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Information abounds in our burgeoning knowledge economy, but how much is useful - let alone essential? Martin Dawes from the University of British Col...
Artificial pancreas and a genetic ISO
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Regulation of genetic testing kits is difficult, so how do we start to control this growing market? Christine Hauskeller, from the ESRC Centre for Gen...
Travelling when pregnant
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The problems associated with arsenic in drinking water have been known for some time, but new research published in the BMJ helps quantify that risk w...
Cold homes cost lives
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What are the health impacts of cold homes and fuel poverty? Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London, ...
Prophylaxis for endocarditis
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Peto, renowned epidemiologist at Oxford University, won the BMJ Group lifetime achievement award this week. We hear from him about his work, a...
Climate change and population, sleep and obesity
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the UN population fund, joins us in the studio to talk about climate change and r...
Immunisation and ectopic pregnancy
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast Trish Groves talks to Marzio Babille, UNICEF representative in Chad, about the country with the lowest immunisation rates in ...
Sharing the pain
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How can doctors and police sharing information help stop violent crime? Jonathan Shepherd, from Cardiff University, explains the Cardiff Violence Prev...
Beansprouts and blood pressure
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, we look at the ups and downs of postural hypotension. Also, beansprouts have been fingered as the cause of the recent E coli...
A world without smoking
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
If everyone were to stop smoking, what would be the major public health hazards, and what would happen to health inequalities? Laurence Gruer, directo...
Bed blues
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Margaret McCartney examines Hydration for Health, Quentin Anstee explains how big a problem non-alcoholic fatty liver disea...
Artificial organs and surgical research
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Duncan Jarvies speaks to Alexander Seifalian, professor of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine, about a groundbreaking ...
Designed for health
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast Jeremy Myerson, from the Royal College of Art, tells us how good design techniques can make cities more friendly places to gr...
Sharing decisions and data
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast we discuss publishing medical details with former health editor of The Sun, Jacqui Thornton. Rogaia Abuelgasim Abdelrahim, t...
Tracking down TB
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Sue Rabbit Roff describes how she thinks a system of paid for kidney donations could work in practice. Al Story, clinical l...
Doctors in the danger zone
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A recent study compared cost efficiency of different healthcare systems around the world. We hear from Colin Pritchard, from Bournemouth University, ...
Global Health and TB
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Last week BMJ Group held an inaugural global health conference http://globalhealth.bmj.com/ in London, looking at policies for sustainable and effecti...
Drink, drugs, and comic book villains
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s podcast, Shaun Walker reports on alcohol consumption in Russia. Ewan Hoyle explains why he wants the Lib Dems to discuss drug policy....
Facing the dragon
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week, chocolate is good for your emotional heart, but what about your physical one? Oscar Franco, clinical lecturer in public health at the Unive...
Unprecedented access
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John Young, professor of elderly care medicine at Leeds University, gives Mabel Chew tips on carrying out a cognitive assessment of an older person. A...
Mental health and mortality
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Research has found that the gap in all-cause mortality between psychiatric patients after discharge, and the general population, is growing. Uy Hoang ...
Caring for the carers
28 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the UK’s General Medical Council is reviewing its standards of good medical practice. Helen Jaques quizzes Niall Dickson, the council’s...
10 Lords revolting
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Berkley, CEO of GAVI (formerly the “Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation”), talks to Rebecca Coombes about the future of vaccination...
Regulating education, and respiratory infections
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Health and Social Care Bill for England has now reached the House of Lords. With the proposed demise of deaneries, questions still remain about ho...
Climate, health, and security
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hugh Montgomery, director of the University College London Institute for Human Health & Performance, talks about the space where climate, health, and ...
Decriminalisation of drugs in Portugal
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In 2001 Portugal abolished all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs – effectively decriminalising their use. Health journalist Nigel ...
Watching receptionists, watching weight
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
One way of tackling obesity is by attending a weight loss club, such as WeightWatchers . There are many such schemes available on the NHS, but which o...
Undernutrition in India
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Richards (BMJ’s analysis editor) and Duncan Jarvies (BMJ’s multimedia producer) talk to Veena Rao (adviser at Karnataka Nutrition Mission, I...
Sudden death in epilepsy; NAFLD mortality
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mariana Lazo, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, tells us how non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has affected all cause mortality in...
Evolved to run
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast is from UKSEM, the big sports and exercise medicine conference in London. Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist from Harva...
AIDS at 30
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
To mark World AIDS Day, the WHO has issued a report outlining policy successes and failures in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Yves Souteyran...
Brain drain
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How much does it cost sub-Saharan countries to train all the doctors who end up working in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia? Edward Mills from the Un...
Death in Borsetshire
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Vanessa Whitburn, editor of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, talks morbidity and mortality in Ambridge. James Raftery, University of Southampton, updates ...
2011
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Somehow we've come to the end of another year. The Independent's health editor Jeremy Laurance talks us through the big health stories from 2011. And ...
Missing data
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The problem of missing data is well known, especially in cases where drug companies conceal evidence. However pharmaceutical industry misconduct is no...
Surgical performance
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Antoine Declos, Université de Lyon, explains the performance curve of surgeons as they become more experienced. Peter Wilmshurst, Royal Shrewsbury Ho...
Antidepressants and tamiflu
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Hatcher, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Aukland, sets out the use of newer antidepressants for the treatment of depressi...
New antiepileptics and the drop in MI deaths
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mabel Chew talks to epileptologists Martin Brodie from the Western Infirmary Glasgow and Patrick Kwan from the University of Melbourne, about the newe...
Healthcare and corruption in Uttar Pradesh
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Indian government has invested £1.2bn to kick start rural healthcare in its most populous northern state, Uttar Pradesh. Much of that money has n...
Cannabis in cars
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Karen McColl interviews Wendell Potter, US health industry lobbying guru turned critic. Mark Ashbridge, an associate professor at Dalhousie...
Menopause, HRT, and cancer
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we look at older women's health, Gita Mishra from the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, explains the trajectories of pe...
After the health bill - what next?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With the future of the Health and Social Care bill more certain, how will the health service react to the legislative changes? At this year's Nuffield...
Tackling NCDs in developing countries
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Chisholm, a health economist with the World Health Organisation talks to Harriet Vickers about a cluster of articles which examines the more cost ...
Elective ventilation and the future of medical professionalism
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Is elective ventilation an acceptable way to increase organs available for transplant? Duncan Jarvies discusses the ethics with Dominic Wilkinson (ass...
Neurodegenerative disease and cancer, and peer led parenting
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A new peer led parenting group is having success in South London, we visit a session to find out why. Also Jane Driver, an associate professor at Brig...
Emergency contraception, and stopping smoking
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Indhu Prabakar, a subspecialty registrar in sexual and reproductive health at Abacus Services for Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in Liverpool, goe...
SSRIs in dementia, and exposure to a rash in pregnancy
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Eithne MacMahon, consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, expl...
Stopping the spread of disease at the Olympics and Hajj
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hopes are high that the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will have a lasting sports and exercise legacy, but the work done to ensure the health of the mi...
Overactive bladder syndrome
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re concentrating on the problem of an overactive bladder, the subject of a cluster of articles in this week’s BMJ. Practice editor Ma...
23.5 hours to change behaviour
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The focus of this week’s programme is health promotion and behaviour change. Joining Karim Khan, BJSM editor, and Domhnall McAuley, BMJ primary care...
SPARX and spirometry
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
SPARX is a new cognitive behavioural therapy based computer game for young people with depression. Sally Merry, an associate professor of child and ad...
Type 1 or type 2 diabetes?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
BMJ deputy editor Trish Groves talks to Bianca Hemmingsen, a PhD student at Copenhagen University Hospital, about research comparing metformin and ins...
GAVI in Ghana
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes finds out more about a new pneumococcal vaccine being rolled out in Ghana. And David Payne meets Kenneth Kizer, th...
Anti vaccination movements
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Offit, the author of the yes side of our head to head article "Should childhood vaccination be mandatory", joins us to discuss his book Deadly Ch...
Doctors on strike
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's the first time doctors have been polled for strike action since 1975, and we've heard a lot about the moral arguments of doing so, but what about...
It’s time to say sorry
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this weeks podcast BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes reports from Risky Business, the patient safety conference held in London last week. She tal...
Are statins still safe?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Fox, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, and Rory Collins, co-director of the University of Oxford's Clinical Trial Service Unit an...
Herpes simplex encephalitis
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we look at herpes simplex encephalitis, an easily missed central nervous system infection which can have serious consequences. Our practice ...
Research free for all?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
For the last year a group commissioned by the UK government has been looking at whether making all published research freely available is attainable o...
The future of secondary care - full roundtable
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With changes to the NHS such as cuts, competition and tendering, secondary care will need to adapt. Joining BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes to dis...
The future of secondary care
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The healthcare landscape in the England is shifting, with cuts, competition and tendering some of the major changes. Secondary care must adapt to thes...
Obama’s healthcare reforms on trial
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Barack Obama saw his Affordable Care Act remain law last week, as the US Supreme Court ruled it is constitutional. Ed Davies (BMJ US news and features...
Telehealth: Running before walking?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It seems the race to implement telehealth is on – the UK government’s response to its Whole System Demonstrator pilot has been very positive. But ...
Insanity in the dock
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It has been almost exactly a year since Anders Breivik bombed government buildings in Oslo, and then carried out a mass shooting on the island of Utø...
Shift workers’ health and assessing risk of violence
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Hackam, associate professor at Western University in Canada, explains how shift patterns can have a detrimental effect on the vascular health o...
Renal patient records
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A feature this week asks "Should patients be able to control their own records?". The website renalpatientview.org allows patients to do exactly that....
Is the drug pipeline really drying up?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’ll hear why Donald Light, professor of comparative health systems research at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, t...
Fighting the food giants
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She has written widely about foo...
Ecological public health
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Over the decades public health has had many incarnations. Geof Rayner and Tim Lang (Center for Food Policy) argue that public health today needs an ov...
Bad for wealth, bad for health?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In 2008 the rates of suicide in the UK began to increase. Is it a coincidence that this was also when the financial crisis hit? Ben Barr, research fel...
Acutely ill patients
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's increasingly obvious that acutely ill patients have received less than gold standard care. Deficiencies in training are often blamed. Paul Frost,...
Spotting pre-eclampsia, and debating obesity
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A BMJ head to head article this week asks: "Are the causes of obesity primarily environmental?" John Wilding, Head of the Department of Obesity and En...
Newer insulins and stents in diabetic patients
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we concentrate on diabetes "The difference between insulin management in type 1 and type 2 diabetes is rather like the difference between dr...
Reducing emergency admissions: are we on the right track?
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Schemes which reduce emergency admissions sound like a good thing, but Martin Rowland, professor of health services research, Cambridge Centre for Hea...
Stayin’ Alive, in the cardboard city
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A head to head article this week asks: "Does celebrity involvement in public health campaigns deliver long term benefit?”. The British Heart Foundat...