BMJ talk medicine

Editor-in-chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, interviews Narin Hassan and Jessica Howell about their innovative and interdisciplinary approach to health humanities.

Narin Hassan is Associate Professor and Director of Global Media and Cultures (MS-GMC) in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Jessica Howell is Professor of English and Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.

Read the blog with the transcription of this podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/07/07/global-health-humanities-a-june-special-issue

The special issue is available: https://mh.bmj.com/content/48/2

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Duane Peters from the Lupus Foundation of America interviews Dr Peter Izmirly from New York University and Dr Elizabeth Ferucci from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, both in the USA.

They discuss the establishment of a network of population-based lupus patient registries in the USA and how these have been used to estimate the incidence rate of systemic lupus erythematosus using standardised data stratified by sex, race and ethnicity.

Access the article: https://lupus.bmj.com/content/8/1/e000614

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

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/7/i

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Thank you for joining us for the HTLV2022 Conference review. Dr Fabiola Martin speaks to Joanna Curteis, the Australian patient representative, Dr Carolina Rosadas, researcher associate at National Centre for Human Retrovirology, Imperial College London, who specialises in HTLV-1 vertical transmission and Prof Damian Purcell. Damian's research group investigates the HIV-1 and HTLV-1 human retroviruses that cause AIDS and leukaemia/inflammatory pathogenesis respectively at Doherty Institute, Melbourne. We also discuss the Global Call to Action towards the elimination of HTLV-1 and an important message from the World Health Organisation delivered by Dr Meg Doherty.

Related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/sti/2022/07/06/ichr-2022/

Related links:

https://www.htlvnet.com

https://www.htlvaware.com

HTLV Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6aLSTtk7chXMeybJ92Fhw

Follow @HTLVChannel

National Centre for Human Retrovirology http://www.htlv.eu/

WHO HTLV technical report https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/339773

Axial spondyloarthritis is a chronic progressive inflammatory arthropathy, which ultimately may lead to radiographical changes in the spine and sacroiliac joints. This radiographical stage is known as ankylosing spondylitis.

Inflammatory back pain is the hallmark clinical feature. This is defined as back pain that is of insidious onset, is worse in the morning, and improves with exercise.

In this podcast, Markku Kauppi, Professor of Rheumatology, Helsinki University, gives a clinical overview of the condition.

For more on ankylosing spondylitis, visit BMJ Best Practice: bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/366

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In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Dimitrios Nasioudis. Dr. Nasioudis is a Gynecologic Oncology Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on translational therapeutics and population-based research.

Highlights:

The utility of surgical staging for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer has not been established.

While PET-CT is the most sensitive imaging modality to detect para-aortic metastases, the false negative rate can be as high as 20%.

In the United States, surgical staging for locally advanced cervical cancer is rarely performed with a decreasing utilization.

The impact of surgical staging on the oncologic outcomes is not clear.

This BJSM podcast discusses how health care professionals can learn from the sports psychology world. Noting the similarities between athletes and health care professionals Dr Helen Church has put together a new PERFORM (Performance Enhancing Routine for Optimisation of Readiness using Metacognition) framework, using Performance Enhancing Routines to improve clinical performance. She provides practical advice on how you and your practise can benefit from simple sport psychology measures giving some fantastic examples for inspiration.

Dr Helen Church is a GP trainee and academic clinical lecturer at the University of Nottingham, working as a clinical assistant professor in medical education. This podcast is hosted by Dr Shona Kohlhardt.

Links to useful papers further discussing sports psychology in clinical performance:

1. Using Insights From Sports Psychology to Improve Recently Qualified Doctors’ Self-Efficacy While Managing Acutely Unwell Patients (Church et al., 2021) https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2021/05000/Using_Insights_From_Sports_Psychology_to_Improve.41.aspx

2. Applying sport psychology in health professions education: A systematic review of performance mental skills training (Sandars et al., 2021)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2021.196643

3. Applying sport psychology to improve clinical performance (Church et al., 2017)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2017.135953

4. What can medical educators learn from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games? (Church et al., 2017)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2016.127040

Survival for glioblastoma remains very poor despite decades of research, with a 5-year survival of only 5%. Technological improvements that have revolutionized treatment of ischemic stroke and brain aneurysms have great potential in providing more precise and selective delivery of cancer therapeutic agents to brain tumors.

In this podcast, JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Felipe C. Albuquerque speaks with Dr. Stephen Chen (1)and Dr. Peter Kan (2) about their paper "Perfusion-guided endovascular super-selective intra-arterial infusion for treatment of malignant brain tumors". The paper describes a technique using perfusion guidance to enhance the precision of endovascular super-selective intra-arterial (ESIA) infusions of mesenchymal stem cells loaded with Delta-24 in the treatment of glioblastoma. This technique enhances targeted super-selective delivery of therapeutic agents for brain tumors.

Paper available online (https://jnis.bmj.com/content/14/6/533) and in June print issue of JNIS.

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This episode was produced by Leticia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole.

(1) Interventional Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

(2) Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the March 2022 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/107/2/115

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In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) provide an overview of the July 2022 issue of DTB. They discuss the proposed reclassification of estradiol vaginal tablets from Prescription Only Medicine to a Pharmacy medicine (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/7/98) and review a study that assessed pharmaceutical industry funding of All Party Parliamentary Groups (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/7/100). They talk about the evidence for the lipid-lowering drug inclisiran and its effect on reducing low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol and the lack of evidence on clinical outcomes (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/7/102). The editors also highlight a case report of acute lung toxicity caused by nitrofurantoin (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/7/108).

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