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Returning to work as a nurse with Long Covid is thwart with difficulties in part due to its relapsing-remitting nature. Many nurses with Long Covid experience post-exertional malaise and symptom exacerbation if they push themselves and this may trigger a major relapse. This means that a return to work needs to be planned carefully.

In this second podcast of a series about Long Covid, Dr Alison Twycross, Editor in Chief of Evidence-Based Nursing, speaks to two freelance consultants from Long Covid Work: Dr Clare Rayner, a consultant occupational physician, and Kirsty Stanley, Director, Occupational Therapist & Writer at Occupation4Life Ltd, about best practice in this context. They provide guidance for both employers and employees. Alison, Clare and Kirsty are also members of the Long Covid Support Employment Group. More information on the Long Covid Nurses and Midwives UK website: http://www.lcnmuk.co.uk/

The EBN podcast series on Long Covid is produced by Letícia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole.

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The first episode of this three-episode series: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/long-covid-what-we-know-so-far-with-dr-elaine-maxwell?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/ebn-podcast&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Christopher Fordyce from the University of British Columbia. They discuss how good physicians are at judging the nature of chest pain. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a podcast review at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212?mt=2

Link to published paper: https://heart.bmj.com/content/108/11/860

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Glauco Baiocchi. Dr. Baiocchi is the Director of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at the AC Camargo Cancer Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Highlights:

-SLN biopsy has emerged as an accurate method for lymph node staging in endometrial cancer.

-Prospective studies aimed to analyze the performance of SLN biopsy in staging endometrial cancer rather than oncological outcomes.

-ALICE trial aims to confirm that SLN mapping without systematic node dissection does not negatively impact oncological outcomes.

Parosmia – a distorted sense of smell, and a delayed post-covid symptom – affects approximately 50% of people who experienced loss of smell during their initial covid infection, and it is currently attracting a lot of media attention. We hear from Emily Woodroofe, a third year medical student, about what it’s like to have parosmia, before we speak to Professor Claire Hopkins about what GPs need to know about it, and how they can best support their patients who are experiencing what can be a distressing symptom.

Our guests:

Emily Woodroofe is a third year medical student at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Claire Hopkins is an ENT consultant, and professor of Rhinology at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS foundation Trust.

Further reading:

‘Parosmia—a common consequence of covid-19’ https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069860

The influence of public health on politics, at least at the beginning of the pandemic, had never been stronger - but now it seems as hard to persuade politicians to pay attention as ever, yet political will is essential in making different sectors work together to create a healthier world.

In this podcast, The BMJ's editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi is joined by Shyama Kuruvilla, senior strategic adviser at World Health Organization, and Kent Buse, director of the global healthier societies program at The George Institute for Global Health.

They discuss examples of where multisectoral working has managed to bridge the gaps between sectors, and how healthcare needs to get political to make that success more widespread.

This is part of the collection "The world we want: Actions towards a sustainable, fairer and healthier society" - https://www.bmj.com/pmac-2022

Along with the general public, medical students are feeling the cost-of-living crunch. How are medical students faring with the increasing cost of living?

In this episode, medical students from outside of the studio send in their perspectives on how they are making ends meet, balancing medical school and part-time work and navigating the student funding system.

Thank you to Michaela Vernon, Elle Gordon, Alex Twist, Trisha Suji, Ruth Carter and Eilidh Garrett who contributed to this episode.

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This podcast is produced and edited by Dom Byrne and Duncan Jarvies.

On this episode of the AMSSM (T: @TheAMSSM) Sports Medcast, host Dr. Krystian Bigosinski, is joined by Dr. Matt Fedoruk, PhD, who works as the Chief Science Officer leading the Science & Research team at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (@usantidoping).

Dr. Fedoruk served as a Featured National Speaker in the Doping in Sport session during the 2022 AMSSM Annual Meeting. In this conversation, he discusses some of the latest trends in doping science and testing and address the following topics:

· His experience as a USADA Officer during the 2022 Olympic and Paralympics Games in China, and the new testing measures that were recently put in place.

· How does WADA’s Athlete Biological Passport work, and what has its impact been on anti-doping?

· How does he view orthobiologic treatments, such as PRP and stem cell therapies, through the lens of anti-doping?

· Are gene doping technologies realistic from a physiological standpoint, or it is still the stuff of science fiction?

· How does USADA balance respect for athlete autonomy and privacy, while also performing meaningful doping control?

· How should sports medicine providers proceed when encountering athletes who might be coerced into doping programs?

· How should physicians approach care of recreational athletes when it comes to the risks and benefits of substances that may be performance-enhancers, such as testosterone?

· How does he approach being a fan of sport while working at USADA, where he often sees the best of worst of sport?

Welcome back to the ADC Spotlight podcast, the Archives of Disease in Childhood podcast covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted in children's health.

This month, Dr Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Mr Robert Wheeler, paediatric and neonatal surgeon and honorary senior lecturer in medical law (1) to discuss the shortage of clinical provision, and the placements for children requiring assessment and treatment for mental illness.

Read the paper 'Providing beds for children' for free for one month on the ADC website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/114 and on the February's issue.

More from the author about clinical law and ethics: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/05/01/law-ethics-basic-science/

The ADC Spotlight series is produced by Letícia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole.

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(1) Consultant Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon at the Wessex Regional Centre for Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Jalid Sehouli. Dr. Sehouli is director of the department of gynecology with center of oncological surgery at Charité Medical University in Berlin. He founded the first certified ovarian cancer center in 2007, published more than 500 articles, and is a teacher and a writer of several belletristic books.

Highlights:

Gynecology should be always holistic, interdisciplinary, and multi-professional.

Research in gynecology relies on teamwork, and international collaboration is essential.

The most relevant drug in medicine is communication!

In this podcast we are joined by Rachael Cowan and Professor Jill Cook. They provide an update on the evidence for management of greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) and discuss the results of a recent clinical trial evaluating the effect of menopausal hormone therapy, exercise, and education on tendon pain and function in post-menopausal women with GTPS. On the eve of retirement, Jill provides an opinion on what the next big breakthroughs in tendinopathy research should be!

Cowan et al. 2021

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03635465211061142

Ganderton et al. 2018

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jwh.2017.6729

Mellor et al. 2018

https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1662.long