Latest BMJ podcasts

GAVI in Ghana

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:43:56 +0000

BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes finds out more about a new pneumococcal vaccine being rolled out in Ghana. And David Payne meets Kenneth Kizer, the US doctor who transformed the failing Veteran’s Health Administration and took on the tobacco industry in California. See also: How Kizer healed the VA Rebecca Coombes: Soaring rents but Ghana...

Type 1 or type 2 diabetes?

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:10:39 +0000

BMJ deputy editor Trish Groves talks to Bianca Hemmingsen, a PhD student at Copenhagen University Hospital, about research comparing metformin and insulin with insulin alone, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Also, Dan Lasserson, a senior clinical researcher at the University of Oxford, tells BMJ practice editor Mabel Chew how late onset type...

SPARX and spirometry

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:17:08 +0000

SPARX is a new cognitive behavioural therapy based computer game for young people with depression. Sally Merry, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Auckland, joins us to explain how it was created. Also this week Christine Jenkins, thoracic physician at Concord Hospital in Sydney, gives Mabel Chew a...

23.5 hours to change behaviour

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:24:35 +0000

The focus of this week’s programme is health promotion and behaviour change. Joining Karim Khan, BJSM editor, and Domhnall McAuley, BMJ primary care editor, is Mike Evans, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Toronto and founder of the Health Design Lab. Dan Heath, senior fellow at Duke University’s Center for the...

Overactive bladder syndrome

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:17:04 +0000

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 Mabel Chew is joined by Linda Cardozo, professor of urogynaecology, and Dudley Robinson, consultant urogynaecologist, both from King’s College Hospital, London. See also: Therapeutics: Antimuscarinic...

Stopping the spread of disease at the Olympics and Hajj

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:16:20 +0000

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 millions of attendees could also have an important impact. Harriet Vickers talks to Brian McCloskey, the Health Protection Agency’s national Olympics and Paralympics lead, about how infectious...

SSRIs in dementia, and exposure to a rash in pregnancy

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:26:57 +0000

Eithne MacMahon, consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, explains how to test and treat a pregnant woman exposed to a child with a rash. Sverre Bergh, a researcher at the Centre for Old Age Psychiatric Research, Sanderud Hospital in Norway, discusses the results...

Emergency contraception, and stopping smoking

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:12:29 +0000

Indhu Prabakar, a subspecialty registrar in sexual and reproductive health at Abacus Services for Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in Liverpool, goes through the options for emergency contraception. Tim Coleman, a professor of primary care at the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, University of Nottingham, explains his research on methods to...

Neurodegenerative disease and cancer, and peer led parenting

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:59:09 +0000

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 Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, explains how Alzheimer's disease and cancer maybe opposite sides of the same coin. See also: Evaluation of a peer led parenting intervention for disruptive...

Tackling NCDs in developing countries

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:49:01 +0000

Dan Chisholm, a health economist with the World Health Organisation talks to Harriet Vickers about a cluster of articles which examines the more cost effective way to tackle non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. See also: What are the priorities for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and injuries...

After the health bill - what next?

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:33:25 +0000

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 Trust Health Policy Summit, the BMJ's editor Fiona Godlee hosted a round table to discuss this question. Taking part were: David Bennett, Chairman and CEO, Monitor Paul Corrigan, Management...

Elective ventilation and the future of medical professionalism

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:58:02 +0000

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...

Menopause, HRT, and cancer

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000

This week we look at older women's health, Gita Mishra from the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, explains the trajectories of perimenopausal symptoms. Martha Hickey, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Melbourne, and Jane Elliott a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, give Mabel Chew...

Cannabis in cars

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:55:37 +0000

Journalist Karen McColl interviews Wendell Potter, US health industry lobbying guru turned critic. Mark Ashbridge, an associate professor at Dalhousie University, explains how cannabis intoxication is an increasingly important factor in motor vehicle collisions. See also: Acute cannabis consumption and motor vehicle collision risk Wendell...

Healthcare and corruption in Uttar Pradesh

webmaster@bmj.com (BMJ Group) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:45:09 +0000

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 now disappeared, and the programme is blighted by corruption and murder. Harriet Vickers hears the details. Also this week, the UK's Department for International Development has to make decisions on...