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Episode 27: Podcast Awards And Talkback Radio | Taking This Medical Life To The People
Episode 27
This Medical Life is a podcast for GPs, specialists, allied health professionals, and medical students but in this episode we share content related t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 26: Crohn’s Disease & Ulcerative Colitis | The Complete Guide to IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)
Episode 26
Intestinal problems are as ancient as human’s themselves. However, the first case was only documented in the 18th century by a great Italian anatomis…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 25: Vitamin D | The Skeleton in the Closet
Episode 25
The sun has always been special to us. Most cultures, particularly in ancient times, worshipped it as a God to be feared. In modern society, we recog…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 24: Rheumatoid Arthritis | From Gout to RA
Episode 24
In the 19th century, a French doctor recognised a subset of patients with joint disease that didn’t fit the traditional diagnoses of gout or osteoart…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 23: Hypertension | Too much of a good thing(?)
Season 3 Episode 23
The first ever recorded blood pressure was done by Stephen Hales in 1733 with a glass tube inserted into the artery of a horse. It would be well over…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 22: Group A Streptococcus / Streptococcus Pyogenes | A Classical Killer
Season 3 Episode 22
Streptococcus pyogenes is a critical micro-organism for every doctor to know about.
It is a gram positive coccus that grows in chains and has the pot…
3 years, 8 months ago
Functional impairments persist in Achilles tendinopathy when people are returning to running
Episode 31
This is an interesting study from the Delaware tendinopathy group among others investigating a host of structural, tissue property, functional and pa…
3 years, 8 months ago
Understanding the patient perspective in Achilles tendinopathy
Episode 30
In this episode I talk about three qualitative studies that aim to understand the patient perspective and patient motivations in Achilles tendinopath…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 21: Marfan Syndrome | Big Problems
Episode 21
Marfan syndrome is a disease of connective tissue. Patients who have this condition often have a tall stature, long slender arms, legs and fingers bu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Humans are lazy (or efficient!) hoppers: the importance of instructions in submaximal human hopping
Episode 29
This paper is more than 30 years old but it is a beauty. Farley et al talk about human preferred hopping frequency and how it relates to metabolic co…
3 years, 9 months ago