Podcast Episodes

Update on malaria - new technologies helping to tackle the disease

Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré is the executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. In this podcast, she updates us on recent successes in the glob…

11 years, 10 months ago

The blockbuster sex drug for women; creating a feminist issue

A thrice failed antidepressant is at the centre of a new marketing campaign to win approval for what could become the world’s first blockbuster sex p…

11 years, 10 months ago

”Death is not inevitable”; why society’s beliefs fuel overtreatment

Our whole society views risk in medicine wrongly, argue Jerome Hoffman and Hemal Kanzaria from the University of California Los Angeles. In this podc…

11 years, 10 months ago

Is NHS England being whittled down to a core service?

Allyson Pollock, professor of global health, and Peter Roderick, a barrister and senior research fellow, both at Queen Mary University of London, arg…

11 years, 10 months ago

How to manage cerebral palsy in children

Cerebral palsy is a clinical diagnosis, which describes a wide spectrum of neurological disability – all as a result of some sort of trauma to the de…

11 years, 11 months ago

Are we overmedicalising global health?

Jocalyn Clarke, executive editor at icdd,b, argues the solutions proposed to improve global health are too focused on the medical, and fail to tackle…

11 years, 11 months ago

Listen to patients, how Radboud UMC changed quality and care

In April 2006 one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands hit the national headlines with the exposure of “scandalously” poor results for cardiac…

11 years, 11 months ago

How not to miss kawasaki disease

Kawasaki Disease presents as fever and rash, which makes diagnosis difficult. In this podcast, Anthony Harnden, professor of primary care at the Uni…

11 years, 11 months ago

Risky Business - Kevin Fong - learning too much from aviation?

Is medicine trying to learn too much from aviation?

Kevin Fong, consultant anaesthetist at UCLH is currently working with Kent, Surrey and Sussex air…

11 years, 11 months ago

Preventing overdiagnosis - the problems with screening

Screening tests were central to many of the discussions taking place at the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference (preventingoverdiagnosis.net) To su…

11 years, 11 months ago