BMJ talk medicine

In this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat.

They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now.

We'll take a look at a study of industry sponsorship of cost effectiveness analysis, and seeing similar patters of publication bias to RCTs.

And finally we'll be talking about new research on the ongoing, and emergent pandemics - covid and monkeypox.

Reading listResponse to acute monotherapy for major depressive disorder in randomized, placebo controlled trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration: individual participant data analysis

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-067606)

Using individual participant data to improve network meta-analysis projects

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/08/10/bmjebm-2022-111931

Industry sponsorship bias in cost effectiveness analysis: registry based analysis

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069573

Clinical features and novel presentations of human monkeypox in a central London centre during the 2022 outbreak https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-072410

Effectiveness of a fourth dose of covid-19 mRNA vaccine against the omicron variant among long term care residents in Ontario, Canada:

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-071502

Despite the Conservation party manifesto for the 2019 general election promising to deliver 6,000 additional full-time equivalent GPs, worryingly, the NHS lost 717 FTE GPs between March 2019 and March 2022, and the Health and Social Care Committee’s July 2022 report on workforce was scathing about the Government’s failure to act decisively on the chronic staff shortages across healthcare in the UK. This week, we speak to more colleagues from the RCGP conference: first, we talk to Pamela Curtis about the challenges of returning to general practice after a break; secondly, we speak to a group of GP trainees about their innovative platform, The Big GP Consultation, and hear their thoughts on shaping the future of general practice.

Our guests:

Pamela Curtis is a salaried GP working at NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB.

Veena Aggarwal, Devina Maru, Liam Loftus and Rachel Weaver are all GP trainees, and are part of the team for The Big GP Consultation.

Further reading:

House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee. Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care. 2022. https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/23246/documents/169640/default/

The Big GP Consultation. https://thebiggpconsultation.co.uk/

In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) talk about the September 2022 issue of DTB. They discuss a new national guideline on the management of gout (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/9/130). They highlight a safety update on the risk of vitamin B12 deficiency with metformin (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/9/131) and provide an overview of a study that analysed the way countries across Europe report payments made by pharmaceutical companies to healthcare professionals (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/9/135). They end the podcast with a discussion on the evidence for carbetocin in the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/9/136).

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In this rebroadcasted episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Nicole Concin to discuss the ESGO-ESTRO-ESP Endometrial Cancer Guidelines.

Original release date: January 4, 2021

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in July 2022.

They cover some important topics including ED crowding, telephone triage, unrecognised endobroncheal intubation, acute coronary syndromes and pre-hospital trauma.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/7/491

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Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Sugano, Department of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, about the paper 'Kyoto international consensus report on anatomy, pathophysiology and clinical significance of the gastro-oesophageal junction'. The article is published in paper copy in Gut in August 2022, and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/8/1488.

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Dr. Amy Ross Russell(1), interviews Dr. Stephen Kirker(2) about his recent paper detailing the use of appropriate orthoses for patients with weakness or abnormal posture of their lower leg, and they discuss the sorts of problems that can be helped in neurological practice and the range of devices commonly used.

Read the latest Editor’s Choice paper on the Practical Neurology website (https://pn.bmj.com/content/22/4/311) and the August print issue of the journal.

The paper is also discussed by Practical Neurology editors, Dr. Phil Smith and Dr. Geraint Fuller, in their latest podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/editors-highlights-of-the-august-2022-issue

(1) Neurology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK

(2) Rehab Medicine Department, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

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Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2022 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/9/i

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In this month's podcast, Brandy Schillace talks to Dr Sally Waite and Dr Olivia Turner, of Newcastle University. They discuss "corporeal pedagogy", a form of learning and teaching that suspends conventional modes of Western education, particularly within a university setting, to facilitate embodied and haptic learning and production of knowledge.

A blog post containing the transcript of this podcast is available here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/08/18/body-talk-corporeal-pedagogies-with-dr-sally-waite-and-dr-olivia-turner.

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Please listen to and enjoy the Editor-in-Chief Mark Beattie's highlights from the special edition of Frontline Gastroenterology put together to celebrate BSG Live 2022, with the overarching theme "Moving forward post-pandemic". The content reflects the breadth and strength of our specialty with first-class reviews written by speakers from and linked to content at the meeting.

Read the UpFront of the August 2022 issue of Frontline Gastroenterology: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e1

The full issue is now online: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1

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