Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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July 15, 2020 Making the drug and device system fit for patients
A series of medical scandals prompted Jeremy Hunt, former UK health secretary to launch the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review - with the explicit aim of strengthening the patient voice in order to help build a "system that listens, hears and acts – with speed, compassion and proportionality"
That report is out, and describes a system that does anything but.
In this podcast, Sir Cyril Chantler, the review's vice chair discusses their recommendations, for better regulation, transparency and patient advocacy in the use of medicines and medical devices.
Read the full report:
https://www.immdsreview.org.uk/
The BMJ report into what we must learn from mesh
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4254
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30min
July 10, 2020 What are the chances of an American vaccine?
US President Donald Trump has been pushing hard for an American vaccine against Covid-19. He's named the program Operation Warp Speed, which has many people worried that safety tests will be rushed.
What are the prospects for an American vaccine against Covid-19? If the US is first, will it make its vaccines available to other countries? And what if it's not first?
Three American vaccine experts talk with the BMJ about prospects for an American vaccine against the new coronavirus.
Joining us are;
Nicole Lurrie - senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a strategic adviser to the foundation working on global vaccines, CEPI.
Paul Offit - professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and co inventor of a rotavirus vaccine.
Prashant Yadav - senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
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37min
July 08, 2020 Wellbeing – how to say no
We all know that healthcare professionals are stretching themselves to provide the care that’s needed right now. But there are instances when you might find yourself out of your comfort zone or being pushed too hard or fast. When is it ok to say no to these demands?
We spoke to Kate Burnett who educates NHS staff on empowerment about how to voice your position clearly and how to reconcile the guilt you might feel of letting the side down.
www.bmj.com/wellbeing
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35min
July 03, 2020 Talk Evidence covid-19 update - drop in excess deaths, HIV drugs, academic promotion
In this week's Talk Evidence we're hearing about how the death rate has dropped below average, disappointment about HIV drugs for covid-19 treatment, a trial to reduce polypharmacy, and why academic promotions matter to everyone else.
1.35 - Carl gives us one of his death updates
3.30 - Helen asks if it’s finally time to be able to do the international comparisons we’ve been waiting for?
16.10 - New research suggests that extreme PPE prevents transmission - but PPE came with a whole range of other viral suppression measures, and they all work together.
21.30 - The Recovery trial has said that lopinavir-ritonavir isn’t effective against covid - enough for them to stop the arm of that trial. We talk about this and more treatment evidence.
24.00 - Can a digital intervention reduce poly pharmacy? A new trial on bmj.com says no, but we talk about the composite endpoint and the way the trial is powered.
36.25 - Why academic promotion matters to non academics
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45min
July 02, 2020 Lowering the shield with Julia Marcus and Carol Liddle
The relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown regulations is raising a lot of questions, both for doctors and for patients. This week, we discuss how the lack of clarity and coherence in public health messages over the past few months has caused anxiety and confusion for our patients, especially those who have been told to shield. We talk about GPs tailoring shielding advice to suit the individuals they treat, the politicisation of mask wearing, and the flaws of ‘abstinence-only’ health messaging. How do we balance prompting overall health, rather than just working to prevent disease, and how do we start taking baby steps towards returning to normality?
Our guests:
Julia Marcus is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine . She is also an HIV researcher.
Carol Liddle, a COPD patient, is a patient advocate on the panel for NACAP (National asthma and COPD audit), as well as a patient representative for the Taskforce for Lung Health, which is run by the British Lung Foundation.
Tom, Navjoyt and Jenny mentioned some resources they have found useful while looking at racism in medicine - which we have compiled into this document https://bit.ly/DBIRacismResources
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55min
July 01, 2020 David Michaels - Doubt is an industry tactic
For a long time, the BMJ has been interested in conflicts of interest and how that skews the research base.
We also heard in our podcast on "Big Tan" that science is being used to sow seeds of doubt into the association between sunbeds and skin cancer, by scrutinizing the minutiae of a research paper, but ignoring it's bigger message.
Now it's all just happening in medicine. This is an industry tactic. And to talk about that we're joined by David Michaels - who was the longest serving head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and an epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health.
Read The BMJ's collection - Commercial influence in health: from transparency to independence
https://www.bmj.com/commercial-influence
To find out more from David, plus his two books on the influence of industry
https://www.drdavidmichaels.com/
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38min
June 26, 2020 Covid-19 in the U.S. - returning to work in a pandemic
In the third part of our series of podcasts “Corona Virus as Seen Through a US Lens,” features editor for The BMJ, Joanne Silberner, talks to Dr. Adeline Goss about the experience of being a new mom and a hospital resident during the crisis.
In The BMJ, Dr Goss recently wrote about the challenges facing medical residents as they deal with working during the virus.
When she went on maternity leave a few months ago, nothing seemed amiss, beyond the normal stress of being a new mom. But when she returned to full time work on June 1, everything had changed. Goss kept an audio diary of her experience preparing and going back to work and we hear some of that during the podcast.
For more of The BMJ's covid-19 coverage www.bmj.com/coronavirus
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19min
June 25, 2020 Talk Evidence covid-19 update - dexamethosone, testing, rehabilitation after covid.
This week we're looking beyond the press release for dexamethasone, the long awaited review of antibody testing, and how well people are recovering after surviving acute covid-19.
(2.36) The preprint for dexamethasone is finally out - considerably after the press release. Carl digs into it to find out how good the news actually is.
(8.49) There are a couple of newly published systematic reviews on antibody testing, so we return to our testing guru Jon Deeks - professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham to give us an update.
(23.52)Covid-19, it became apparent as the pandemic grew, was more than a respiratory disease - there are systemic effects on almost all organs. As people are recovering from the worst ravages of the disease, the long term consequences of those effects are becoming more clear - Lynne Turner-Stokes, professor of rehabilitation medicine at King's College London.
Reading list;
Effect of Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: Preliminary Report
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20137273v1
Cochrane review of antibody tests for covid-19
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD013652
British society of rehabilitation medicine guidelines for rehab after covid-19.
https://www.bsrm.org.uk/downloads/covid-19bsrmissue1-published-27-4-2020.pdf
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40min
June 17, 2020 Mala Rao on the UK’s new race in health observatory
Earlier this year, the bmj published a racism in medicine issue - the issue was guest edited by Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive of the NHS Confederation and Professor Mala Rao, professor of public health at Imperial College London.
At the event to launch the issue, they managed to persuade Simon Stephens , chief executive of the NHS, to put money into a “race in health observatory”
Mala joins us to talk about what that observatory is going to do, how it will maintain independence, it's role in synthesising, commissioning and implementing research, and where the organisation might begin in tackling the issue.
Reading list
NHS launches Race and Health Observatory after BMJ’s call to end inequalities
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2191
The BMJ's racism in medicine issue (free to access)
https://www.bmj.com/racism-in-medicine
Interview with Yvonne Coghill
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yvonne-coghill-is-trying-to-fix-racism-in-the-nhs/id283916558?i=1000466962555
Interview with David Williams
https://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/david-williams-everyday-discrimination-is-independent/id283916558?i=1000465493980
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25min
June 17, 2020 Resetting General Practice with Martin Marshall, Jenny Doust and Toyin Ajayi
In this week’s episode, our focus is on what the post-COVID world of general practice might look like. The pandemic has exposed the inequalities in our social and healthcare systems, but has also given GPs some much-needed headspace to reflect on changes to make going forward. Will we be able to turn general practice off and on again, like a faulty computer? Will we just drift back to the status quo, or will we seize this opportunity to shake up the old routines in order to redefine the role of the GP and to benefit the ever-evolving needs of our patients?
Our guests:
Martin Marshall is Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, and a GP practising in East London.
Jenny Doust is a Clinical Professorial Research Fellow at the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, and practises as a GP in Brisbane.
Toyin Ajayi is Chief Health Officer, and co-founder, of Cityblock Health, which is a New York-based health and social services company delivering personalised healthcare to marginalised communities.
Tom, Navjoyt and Jenny mentioned some resources they have found useful while looking at racism in medicine - which we have compiled into this document https://bit.ly/DBIRacismResources
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1h 7min

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