Podcast Episodes

Regulation, regulation, regulation

A BMJ investigation this week raises concerns about the ability of the US Food and Drug Administration to monitor the safety of medical devices throu…

13 years ago

Risky business 2010

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 hazardous…

13 years ago

Refer, or not to refer...

This week Dulcie McBride, a consultant in public health at University College London, joins us to talk about the UK’s practice variation in referring…

13 years ago

A tale of two cycles

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 …

13 years ago

Christmas 2010

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 managed …

13 years ago

And that was 2010

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 th…

13 years ago

Sting in the tale

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…

13 years ago

Dowsing for data

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 re…

13 years ago

Andrew Lansley’s apples and oranges

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, ch…

13 years ago

Judging the nudging

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 enou…

13 years ago