Podcast Episodes

Watching receptionists, watching weight

One way of tackling obesity is by attending a weight loss club, such as WeightWatchers . There are many such schemes available on the NHS, but which …

13 years ago

Undernutrition in India

Tessa Richards (BMJ’s analysis editor) and Duncan Jarvies (BMJ’s multimedia producer) talk to Veena Rao (adviser at Karnataka Nutrition Mission, Indi…

13 years ago

Sudden death in epilepsy; NAFLD mortality

Mariana Lazo, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, tells us how non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has affected all cause mortality i…

13 years ago

Evolved to run

This week’s podcast is from UKSEM, the big sports and exercise medicine conference in London. Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist from Harvar…

13 years ago

AIDS at 30

To mark World AIDS Day, the WHO has issued a report outlining policy successes and failures in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Yves Souteyra…

13 years ago

Brain drain

How much does it cost sub-Saharan countries to train all the doctors who end up working in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia? Edward Mills from the U…

13 years ago

Death in Borsetshire

Vanessa Whitburn, editor of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, talks morbidity and mortality in Ambridge. James Raftery, University of Southampton, updates t…

13 years ago

Somehow we've come to the end of another year. The Independent's health editor Jeremy Laurance talks us through the big health stories from 2011.

And…

13 years ago

Missing data

The problem of missing data is well known, especially in cases where drug companies conceal evidence. However pharmaceutical industry misconduct is n…

13 years ago

Surgical performance

Antoine Declos, Université de Lyon, explains the performance curve of surgeons as they become more experienced. Peter Wilmshurst, Royal Shrewsbury Ho…

13 years ago