Podcast Episodes

I ♥ the smoking ban

This week research published on bmj.com looks at the association between the smoking ban and a drop in acute myocardial infarctions. Anna Gilmore, di…

13 years ago

Radios and retinas

Since mobile phones have been around there has been public concern about their safety - fears over radiation exposure causing cancer have been partic…

13 years ago

BMA-on-Sea

This week saw the British Medial Association’s Annual Representatives Meeting. Deborah Cohen and Helen Morant tell us what was going on in Brighton. …

13 years ago

Methado, methadon’t, methadone

Later this month sees the 17th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. One of the topics that will be discussed there is harm reduction, and the pol…

13 years ago

The white paper

The new coalition government’s white paper on health – encompassing the future of the NHS - was published this week. Chris Ham, chief executive of th…

13 years ago

The bridge

This week the print BMJ has a cluster of articles on suicide – one of which talks about the efficacy of physical barriers to prevent suicide from bri…

13 years ago

The NHS market place

The new coalition government’s plans for the NHS in England put GPs firmly in the driving seat - how do their secondary care colleagues feel about th…

13 years ago

Musical lithotomy

In June 2010 the drug company Novo Nordisk announced that its only conventional human biphasic insulin, human Mixtard 30, would no longer be availabl…

13 years ago

Heavy weather

In this week’s podcast we discover the link between the weather and the risk of heart attacks - Krishnan Bhaskaran tells us about his research.

Also,…

13 years ago

The hidden eunuch

Jill Morrison talks about how people on long term incapacity benefit because of mental health problems could be identified by their GPs three years b…

13 years ago