Podcast Episodes

SSRIs in dementia, and exposure to a rash in pregnancy

Eithne MacMahon, consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, explain…

13 years ago

Stopping the spread of disease at the Olympics and Hajj

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 m…

13 years ago

Overactive bladder syndrome

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…

13 years ago

23.5 hours to change behaviour

The focus of this week’s programme is health promotion and behaviour change.

Joining Karim Khan, BJSM editor, and Domhnall McAuley, BMJ primary care …

13 years ago

SPARX and spirometry

SPARX is a new cognitive behavioural therapy based computer game for young people with depression. Sally Merry, an associate professor of child and a…

13 years ago

Type 1 or type 2 diabetes?

BMJ deputy editor Trish Groves talks to Bianca Hemmingsen, a PhD student at Copenhagen University Hospital, about research comparing metformin and in…

13 years ago

GAVI in Ghana

BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes finds out more about a new pneumococcal vaccine being rolled out in Ghana. And David Payne meets Kenneth Kizer, t…

13 years ago

Anti vaccination movements

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 C…

13 years ago

Doctors on strike

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 abou…

13 years ago

It’s time to say sorry

In this weeks podcast BMJ features editor Rebecca Coombes reports from Risky Business, the patient safety conference held in London last week. She ta…

13 years ago