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In this episode of the IJGC Podcast, former Editorial Fellow Irina Tsibulak discusses the contents of the January issue of IJGC in Russian.

Duane Peters from the Lupus Foundation of America interviews Dr Erik Anderson and Dr Meggan Mackay from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York in the USA. They discuss their study into imbalances in quinolinic acid and kynurenic acid levels in the brain in SLE patients, and propose that the ratio between these two metabolites could be used as a new biomarker or therapeutic target for cognitive dysfunction.

Access the paper here: https://lupus.bmj.com/content/8/1/e000559

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Charlotte Warren-Gash and Dr Sharon Cadogan from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. They discuss their study that demonstrated that prescribing DOACs rather than warfarin was associated with lower incident rates of dementia and mild cognitive impairment.

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Link to published paper: https://heart.bmj.com/content/107/23/1898.abstract

In this episode of the IJGC Podcast, former Editorial Fellow Irina Tsibulak discusses the contents of the January issue of IJGC in Russian.

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Dr. Nicole Concin to discuss the article European Society of Gynaecological Oncology quality indicators for the surgical treatment of endometrial carcinoma. Dr. Concin is a gynaecological oncologist, ESGO president, Co-Chair of ENGOT Early Drug Development Network, and Professor at Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck Austria & Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany.

Related Link: https://ijgc.bmj.com/content/31/12/1508

In the first Talk Evidence of 2022, we'll be asking about the evidence for isolation - now that isolation periods are being reduced, or even stopped in the event of a negative lateral flow test, we'll find out what data that's based on, and if it's appropriate.

Vaccinations and treatments for covid-19 have been the one major success story of the pandemic, but that doesn't mean we should abandon the principles of openness and transparency when it comes to scrutinising the data - we'll hear what access to the data which underlies regulatory approval could do now.

Finally, the impacts of climate change were set out in a WHO report in November last year - and recent weather seems to underline their conclusions. We'll discuss new evidence linking the environment and health, and ask what clinicians can do with that.

Reading list:

Mitigating isolation: The use of rapid antigen testing to reduce the impact of self-isolation periods

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268326v1.full.pdf

Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102

WHO report: Climate change and health

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health

Ambient heat and risks of emergency department visits among adults in the United States: time stratified case crossover study

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-065653

Residential exposure to transportation noise in Denmark and incidence of dementia: national cohort study

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1954

Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1904

In this episode host Dr Brooke Patterson, is joined by Associate Professor Shane Shapiro, to discuss the responsible use of orthobiologics and regenerative therapies in sports medicine. Professor Shapiro provides clinicians with practical considerations and tips for communicating with patients who may be considering the use of orthobiologics.

Links

American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement: Principles for the Responsible Use of Regenerative Medicine in Sports Medicine https://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Fulltext/2021/11000/American_Medical_Society_for_Sports_Medicine.10.aspx

Editorial - highlights from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine position statement on responsible use of regenerative medicine and orthobiologics in sports medicine https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/10/21/bjsports-2021-104887

Lyme disease is an infectious disease transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ticks.

Erythema migrans develops at the site of tick bite usually within 1 to 2 weeks and is a pathognomic feature. Constitutional symptoms such as fever, headache, myalgias, fatigue, and arthralgias may occur.

In this podcast, Janak Koirala, Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, gives us an overview of the condition.

For more on lyme disease, visit BMJ Best Practice: bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/224

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Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, and Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, talk through the highlights of the February edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/2/85.

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In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) provide an overview of the February 2022 issue of DTB. They talk about some of the details from a national report on overprescribing and discuss its implications (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/2/18). The editors review a study that highlighted overprescribing of short-acting beta agonists in people with asthma (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/2/21). They also discuss an article on prescribing for women of childbearing age who have inflammatory bowel disease and managing medicines during pregnancy (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/2/24).

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