Podcast Episodes

Overusing oxygen

In this week’s podcast Andrew Farmer from the National Institute of Health Research, Health Technology Assessment programme (NIHR HTA), tackles uncer…

13 years ago

Diabetes

This week we find out about diabetes. Mabel Chew, our Sydney based associate editor, discovers why it’s important not to miss the diagnosis of type I…

13 years ago

A hearty drink

In this week’s podcast we find out from Susan Brien and Paul Ronksley about the cardioprotective effects of alcohol.

Also, Annabel Ferriman tells us …

13 years ago

Food for thought

Between March 2010 and March 2011 the cost of maize and wheat doubled. This is just the latest in a series of price hikes in food staples. In an edit…

13 years ago

Watching waiting times

In this week’s podcast, Johan Sundstrom explains how blood pressure in adolescents effects mortality in adults. And John Appleby, chief economist of…

13 years ago

30 years of AIDS

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. Bertrand Audoin, from the International AIDS Society, brings us up to date…

13 years ago

From Fukushima

As the world’s attention turns to Fukushima, we hear from Ryuki Kassai, Director of Community and Family Medicine at Fukushima Medical University, ab…

13 years ago

NHS reforms round table

This week the British government has tabled an amendment to remove maximum pricing from the Health and Social Care Bill. We convened a round table di…

13 years ago

Trade in generics

Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International, and Hans Hogerzeil, director of essential medicines and pharmaceutical policies at the World Health Orga…

13 years ago

BMJ Round Table Shared Decision - Making Patients

At BMA house, we convened a group of world experts in shared decision making. Inspired by the Salzburg Global Summit meeting we discussed the backgro…

13 years ago