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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are the main drivers of policy, evidence-based guidelines, and funding decisions, but many of them are fraught with errors, and the resources needed to peer-review them are massive. A recent systematic review examined the quality of the current published meta-analyses in order to inform the design and reporting of future studies. In this month’s RAPM Focus, Editor-in-Chief Brian Sites, MD, joins John Kramer MSc, PhD, the senior author of “Quality of meta-analyses of non-opioid, pharmacological, perioperative interventions for chronic postsurgical pain: a systematic review,” first published in January 2022 (https://rapm.bmj.com/content/47/4/263). The systematic review explored the idea that surgery may represent an environment, known as a transitional pain state, that could result in a patient developing chronic pain following surgery. Dr. John Kramer is an associate professor in the faculty of medicine, department of anesthesiology, pharmacology and therapeutics, and principal investigator at ICORD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His lab is focused on improving outcomes for individuals with spinal cord injury and neuropathic pain. *The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice, and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care, or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others. Podcast and music produced by Dan Langa. Find us on Twitter @RAPMOnline.

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Professor Christina Fotopoulou. Professor Fotopoulou works at the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London, UK. She is an elected ESGO council member and Chair of the ESGO guidelines committee. Highlights: - Early support from mentors and "giants" in the field, national and international networking and early focusing/specialization in the field of interest are keys to success - Try to turn your weaknesses and failures to learning points and opportunities to make you stronger - Hard work, kindness and caring for patients, team spirit, professionalism and dedication are the main keys of success next to any talent and luck that anyone might be fortunate enough to have

It's almost time for the Christmas edition of the BMJ to hit your doormats, and in this festive edition of Talk Evidence we're going to be talking Christmas research. Joining Helen and Juan, we have Tim Feeney, BMJ research editor and researcher into Surgical outcomes at Boston University. In this episode we'll be hearing about the health of footballers, and if a career in the sport predisposes Swedish players to substance use disorders. We'll hear about the performance of BMJ’s editors, when it comes to assessing the impact of a paper. We'll find out if AI algorithms can pass UK radiology exams, misinformation and a belief that everything causes cancer, and finally, some tips from BMJ’s statisticians to set the world right

In this podcast, JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Felipe C. Albuquerque, speaks with Dr. Krishna C. Joshi(1) and Dr. Michael Chen(2) about their paper "Endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke in patients with cancer: a propensity-matched analysis" - https://jnis.bmj.com/content/14/12/1161. Please subscribe to the JNIS Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest episodes. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the JNIS Podcast iTunes page: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jnis-podcast/id942473767 Thank you for listening! This episode was edited by Brian O'Toole. (1) Neurological Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (2) Neurological Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) talk about the January 2023 issue of DTB. They begin with another reminder of the concerns over the use of sodium valproate. They talk about the closure of NPS MedicineWise in Australia and the uncertainty over the future of Australian Prescriber - https://dtb.bmj.com/content/61/1/2. They highlight the risk of eye problems with dupilumab - https://dtb.bmj.com/content/61/1/6 (see more links below) and the challenge of making sure that primary care clinical systems record drugs prescribed by specialists. They discuss toxocarosis in humans and the risk of environmental contamination from parasiticides used for deworming cats and dogs (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/61/1/3 and https://dtb.bmj.com/content/61/1/7). Dupilumab links: 1. Reji MA, Haque A, Goyal S, et al. Dupilumab-induced ocular surface disease: a primer. BMJ Case Reports CP 2022;15:e249019. https://casereports.bmj.com/content/15/4/e249019 2. Nahum Y, Mimouni M, Livny E, et al. Dupilumab-induced ocular surface disease (DIOSD) in patients with atopic dermatitis: clinical presentation, risk factors for development and outcomes of treatment with tacrolimus ointment. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2020;104:776-9. https://bjo.bmj.com/content/104/6/776 The contact address for the DTB team is [email protected]. Please subscribe to the DTB podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening.

Today we talk about transmission, diagnosis and management of MPox. We will also review the UK community and the World Health’s Organization's perspective on this virus. Please note that after the recording of this podcast the WHO implemented a change of the name of the virus to MPox. Dr Fabiola Martin, STI's Podcast editor, interviews Dr Liesbeth Van Gestel, ID physician and clinical researcher at the Tropical Institute of Antwerp, Belgium; Mr Simon Collins, director and co-founder of HIV iBase London, UK; as well as Dr Meg Doherty, the World Health Organisation’s Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes. For more information, please read the STI recently published articles: one from Vanhamel and co-authors tracking the transmission of the virus in the early phases of the outbreak in Belgium (https://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2022/11/17/sextrans-2022-055601), and a second from Heskin and colleagues reporting on the rapid response of sexual health services to the outbreak in the UK (https://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/14/sextrans-2022-055558?rss=1).

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 January 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/1/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Professor Andrea du Bois. Prof du Bois completed his medical degree in 1987 at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He subsequently trained in general surgery at Krankenhaus Wolfach Personalwohnheim and gynaecology and obstetrics at the University of Freiburg, leading to his registration as Fellow for Gynaecology and Obstetrics in 1993. In 1993, Prof. du Bois became a Consultant in the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at St. Vincentius-Kliniken, Karlsruhe. He then served as Director of the Department of Gynaecology and Gynaecologic Oncology, Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken, Wiesbaden (1999-2010) before taking up his current roles as Director of the Department of Gynaecology and Gynaecologic Oncology at Kliniken Essen-Mitte, and Associate Professor at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Prof. du Bois has been the Principal Investigator of several pivotal and practice-changing international clinical trials in gynaecological oncology. He founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynaekologische Onkologie (AGO) Study Group in 1993 and co-founded the European Network of Gynaecological Oncological Trial groups (ENGOT) in 2007. He has previously been a member of the German Guideline Committee for guidelines in breast, cervical, and ovarian cancer, Chairman of the German quality assurance programme for ovarian cancer (QS-OVAR), and member of the Gynecological Cancer InterGroup (GCIG) executive board and European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) council. Prof. du Bois has been Chairman and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ovarian Cancer Consensus Conference of the GCIG, and served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the 1st European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO)-ESGO Ovarian Cancer Consensus Conference 2018. Prof. du Bois is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), ESGO, International Gynecologic Cancer Society (ISGC), German Cancer Society, and AGO. He has authored more than 500 publications with more than 33,500 citations, and has a Google Scholar h index of 86. Prof. du Bois has received multiple honours and awards in recognition for his work, including the Arthur Walpole Award (German Cancer Society, 2006), Ernst Wertheim Award (Austrian Society of Gynecologic Oncology, 2006), MD Anderson Madrid Lifetime Award (2016), Wilhelm-Warner Prize for Cancer Research (2019), German Cancer Prize (Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft, 2020) and honorary membership of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (2020); 2021 he received the ESGO Lifetime Achievement Award (European Society of Gynaecological Oncology).

We release episodes fortnightly. Data, AI, oncology, and patients are a wide range of subjects to be addressed in one podcast. Individually they are big topics and when you put them together you really get to high levels of complexity. In this BMJ Best Practice podcast, Kieran Walsh delves into all these topics with Dr Arun Sujenthiran, Senior Medical Director and UK Clinical Lead at Flatiron Health. Flatiron Health is a healthtech company that specialises in data science and oncology. Competing interests: AS is an employee of Flatiron Health Inc, an independent subsidiary of Roche, and holds stock in Roche.

The possibility that patients will suddenly have access to their notes has caused some anxiety for GPs in England. The department of health's plans to allow patients to prospectively access their medical record lead to fears about increased workloads, misunderstandings, and safety - and the plans have now been pushed back. In this podcast the Deep Breath In team are joined by the authors of a recent article in The BMJ to explore those fears, hear about the potential benefits, and understand the evidence behind open notes. Our guests; Charlotte Blease, and interdisciplinary health researcher at OpenNotes, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Brian McMillan, a GP and senior clinical lecturer at the University of Manchester Gail Davidge, research associate at the University of Manchester The article they're discussing is a practice pointer on Adapting to transparent medical records: international experience with “open notes” https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2021-069861

Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews British documentary filmmaker, Edward Lovelace. They discuss his film ‘’Name me Lawand’’, a rapturous portrait of a deaf Kurdish boy’s emotional journey towards discovering how to express himself. A love letter to the power of communication and community. Edward describes how he bonded with Lawand and how together they created a poignant film amplifying the voices of the Deaf community and their fight for passing the BSL act in 2022. Related blog with the transcript of this podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/12/15/lawand-from-voiceless-to-a-voice-representing-the-deaf-community-and-british-sign-language-bsl Other related links: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/10/27/listen-without-prejudice/ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/04/08/the-reading-room-deaf-gain/ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2018/08/09/deafhearing-family-life-in-the-silent-child-an-unsympathetic-portrayal/ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/01/05/hearing-happiness-jaipreet-virdi-on-deafness-accessibility-and-her-latest-book/ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/01/21/book-review-hearing-happiness-deafness-cures-in-history/ Subscribe to the Medical Humanities Podcast in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Medical Humanities Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/medical-humanities-podcast/id961667204). Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Thorax social media editor Dr. Puja Mehta speaks with Professor Ian Hall, Director of the Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Nottingham about his paper "Respiratory Research in the UK: investing for the next 10 years". They discuss some of the biggest challenges facing respiratory research in the UK, and why respiratory diseases need more investment. Read the paper here: https://thorax.bmj.com/content/77/9/851 Please engage in the conversation through the social media channels (Twitter - @ThoraxBMJ; Facebook - @Thorax.BMJ · Pulmonologist) and subscribe on your preferred platform, to get the latest episodes directly on your device each month. If you enjoy the Thorax Podcast, please leave us a rating and a review on the Thorax Podcast page on iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thorax-podcast/id343304910.

In this episode of the Dr. Informed podcast, the topic of discussion is death and dying, and how to involve patients in DNACPR decisions. The panel discuss the importance of doctors having discussions with patients about end-of-life care as a way of creating the best possible death for patients. The conversation also touches on the challenges that doctors may face when having these difficult discussions and they give some advice on how they to overcome them. Joining Clara are; Mark Taubert, palliative care consultant, and national chair of future care planning for the Welsh Government Kat Shelley, an anaesthetics trainee, who has stage four breast cancer, and is receiving palliative care Lucy-Anne Frank, an elderly care consultant. The article "Do not resuscitate me in Barbados" is published by BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, and is free to access at; https://spcare.bmj.com/content/11/3/310

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Patricia Campbell the Southern Trust, Northern Ireland. They discuss the important takeaways from the 2021 ESC heart failure guidelines, including the diagnosis of HFpEF, revised BNP cut-offs, cardiac amyloidosis and much more. This episode is sponsored by an educational grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim-Lilly Alliance. The sponsor has no influence over podcast content, the selection of speakers or any associated educational material. 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://bjcardio.co.uk/2022/07/new-developments-in-the-investigations-and-diagnosis-of-heart-failure/

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Dr. Anna Fagotti. Dr. Fagotti is the director of the ovarian cancer unit at the A. Gemelli IRCCS University Hospital Foundation, ESGO President Elect and member of the ESGO Executive Committee, and Editor of the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer. Highlights: -Always practice your skills if you want to excel in minimally invasive surgery: Practice makes perfect. -The journey is long for a gynecologic oncologist. We can’t foresee the future and plans might have to be adjusted along the way, so try to be flexible on what you have beside you. Try to answer the relevant clinical questions. Don’t create a question just to answer. -There can be difficulties along the way, but look forward and focus on your aim and don’t get stopped by obstacles. Remember to try to enjoy everything.

In this BJSM podcast Jackie Whittaker discusses the OPTIKNEE consensus clinical and research recommendations. Jackie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, at the University of British Columbia. The OPTIKNEE initiative aims to shine the light on post-traumatic osteoarthritis after traumatic knee injury – who is most at risk, what should we be measuring and how, and what interventions should we be using? Jackie encourages clinicians to think about knee and overall health beyond the short-game of injury rehab and return to sport. There are some great tips on how you can set up patients at risk of post-traumatic osteoarthritis with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to self-manage in the long-term. OPTIKNEE Consensus Statement https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36379676 OPTIKNEE website and links to systematic reviews: bit.ly/OPTIKNEE

Medicine is a career unlike almost any other. As medical students and junior doctors, we’ve had a lot of experience with strange, surreal moments. The first time you ask a super invasive question to someone you’ve known for all of five minutes, the first time you make an incision in surgery, the first time you do an intimate examination - all of these things can be really strange as they go against our social norms. Getting used to this is important but no one ever teaches us this in medical school. In everyday life, there are lots of rules that we follow that aren’t written down anywhere. But when we start placements, we have to unlearn years of following those rules and start doing things that conflict with how we would normally act. Join us in this episode as we talk about how strange medicine can be and how best to cope with moments that can sometimes be uncomfortable or awkward. Check us out on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BMJStudent Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmj_student/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BMJStudent/ This podcast is produced and edited by Dom Byrne and Duncan Jarvies.

Dr Aditi Kumar(1) is joined by Professor Andrew Hopper(2) to discuss the role and importance of endoscopy in patients diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Read the article in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e72 (1) Trainee associate editor for Frontline Gastroenterology and gastroenterology trainee in the West Midlands. (2) Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK Listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate us on your chosen platform, and leave us a review on the Frontline Gastroenterology Podcast page on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fg-podcast/id942944229

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Dr. Jorge Hoegl to discuss peritoneal carcinomatosis after minimally invasive surgery in cervical cancer. Dr. Jorge Hoegl is an early career gynecologic oncologist at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the General Hospital of the East “Dr. Domingo Luciani” in Caracas, Venezuela. Highlights: -Peritoneal carcinomatosis represented more than 15% of all recurrences, with a recurrence rate of 22.2% in minimally invasive surgery compared to 8.8%. -Peritoneal carcinomatosis has been frequently grouped within distant recurrences and perhaps this made it not such a notorious fact. -Peritoneal carcinomatosis does not appear to be an unusual recurrence pattern associated with cervical cancer and it should be reported separately.

We release episodes fortnightly. Rosacea is a common disorder. Studies suggest a prevalence of 5% for women and 4% for men. And rosacea can cause a range of problems including papules and pustules, telangiectasias, and eye problems. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. In this BMJ Best Practice podcast on rosacea, Kieran Walsh talks to Dr Abel Jarell, Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist, Northeast Dermatology Associates, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Competing interests: none declared

In this month's episode, Helen Juan and Joe delve into the clinical - with a new review of endometriosis, and why the difficulty in diagnosis has lead to a dearth of evidence and attention on the condition. Joe tells us about a risk prediction tool that could be useful in helping to mitigate some of the problems of antihypertensive treatments. We're also having a geek out about a group of papers we've published lately, on how well evidence is created, maintained, and diseminated. Reading list; Development and external validation of a risk prediction model for falls in patients with an indication for antihypertensive treatment: retrospective cohort study https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-070918 Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of endometriosis https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-070750 Effective knowledge mobilisation: creating environments for quick generation, dissemination, and use of evidence https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-070195 Consistency of covid-19 trial preprints with published reports and impact for decision making: retrospective review https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000309 Changing patterns in reporting and sharing of review data in systematic reviews with meta-analysis of the effects of interventions: a meta-research study from the REPRISE project https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.11.22273688v2

A selection of the best papers from our December 2022, picked apart and distilled for you by Rick Body and Sarah Edwards. In this festive issue we cover anaesthesia for paediatric forearm fractures, ultrasound diagnosis of acute appendicitis, a deep dive into the predictive value of vital signs, clinical judgement versus early warning scores, pulmonary embolism and... Do you know what calibration drift is? If not, listen and you'll find out! Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/12/881. You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the EMJ Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emj-podcast/id445358244). Thank you for listening!

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Vineet Ahuja who is from the Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, on the paper 'Faecal microbiota transplantation with anti-inflammatory diet (FMT-AID) followed by anti-inflammatory diet alone is effective in inducing and maintaining remission over 1 year in mild to moderate ulcerative colitis: a randomised controlled trial' published in paper copy in Gut in December 2022 and available online: https://gut.bmj.com/content/71/12/2401 Please subscribe to the Gut Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Gut Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gut-podcast/id330976727).

The joy of Archimedes is the breadth of what it covers. For instance, have you ever considered the management of NTM lymphedenits with MAC? (That’s not a sneaky way of getting a cosmetics company to sponsor our EBM slot.) If you’ve no idea what that last but one sentence means … listen on! If you have, listen on anyway! And if you’re struggling with the bit in parentheses, then wander down to your local department store and glance around the make-up counters. The full paper can be read here [ https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/12/1131.1 ] We would love for you to be involved and submit your very own Archi [adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes] - it’s more fun than tidying up the messy kitchen. Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

A selection of the best papers from our November 2022 edition. Rick and Sarah take you through five great papers discussing headache, subarachnoid haemorrhage, pre-hospital births, how to mitigate emergency physician stress in resuscitation and pathways for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/11/799. You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the EMJ Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emj-podcast/id445358244). Thank you for listening!

In this double-interview podcast, the Editor-in-Chief of the STI journal, Professor Anna Maria Geretti, brings you some of the highlights from the HIV Glasgow 2022 conference. In the first interview (starting at 1:00), Professor Geretti interviews Jean-Michel Molina*, who discusses HIV and STI prevention. The second interview (starting at 12:30) is with Professor Miłosz Parczewski**. They discuss the effects of the war in Ukraine on the country’s healthcare system, in particular on the prevalence of STIs. *Professor of Infectious Diseases University of Paris, France and Head of the Infectious Diseases Department, Saint-Louis Hospital and Lariboisière Hospital Paris, France. **Clinical specialist and Professor of Infectious Diseases Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland. Associate Editor on STI and newly elected Vice President of the European AIDS Clinical Society. To hear more episodes of the STI Podcast, please subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sti-podcast/id356342980

Ever wondered what it would be like to help design and run a world injury conference? Come visit Safety 2022, in a conversation with a member of the Australian Organising Committee. Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, talks with Dr Amy Peden* at the Safety 2022 Conference, in Adelaide, Australia. *Bachelor of Arts (Government and International Relations, Social Policy), Master of Public Policy, PhD (Health); School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of NSW Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) talk about the December 2022 issue of DTB. They discuss cognitive changes that have been reported during the menopause and whether there is a role for MHT (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/12/178). They highlight an observational study that found an association between the use of sodium-containing paracetamol and cardiovascular events (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/12/181), and talk about the evidence for increasing the dose of vedolizumab in IBD (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/12/183). They begin the podcast by talking about their top three highlights from 2022. The contact address for the DTB team is [email protected]. Please subscribe to the DTB podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening.

Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the December 2022 issue of the journal (https://pn.bmj.com/content/22/6/445). Please subscribe to the Practical Neurology podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Practical Neurology Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pn-podcast/id942932053). The PN podcast is produced by Letícia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole. Thank you for listening.

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Professor Carolyn Lam, a world expert in heart failure from the University of Singapore and the National Heart Centre, also in Singapore. They discuss updates in the diagnosis and management of heart failure, including wearables, biomarkers, the 4 pillars of therapy, and how and why there has historically been an under-representation of women in heart failure trials. This episode is sponsored by an educational grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim-Lilly Alliance. The sponsor has no influence over podcast content, the selection of speakers or any associated educational material. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a podcast review at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212?mt=2 Circulation on the Run podcast - https://www.ahajournals.org/circ/podcasts

In surgical care worldwide, there has been a growing trend towards enhanced recovery with the emphasis on early mobility, avoidance of unnecessary procedures and drug-induced side effects, and faster return of normal gastrointestinal function, with the end result of shorter hospital stay. It’s natural to assume that regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine would play a central role in enhanced recovery protocols for all of the well-described benefits. However, the base evidence is continually evolving as both anesthetic and surgical practices change. In this month’s RAPM Focus, Associate Editor Edward Mariano, MD, joins Kariem El-Boghdadly, MBBS, BSc, FRCA, EDRA, lead author of an international collaboration in the regional anesthesiology and enhanced recovery world, “Role of regional anesthesia and analgesia in enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials,” first published in March 2022 (https://rapm.bmj.com/content/47/5/282). Investigators carefully evaluated thirteen published randomized controlled trial studies involving 1,170 participants and concluded that regional analgesia may only have modest evidence to support its inclusion in enhanced recovery protocols involving colorectal surgery patients. Dr. Kariem El-Boghdadly is a consultant anesthetist at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust in London, and an editor of the journal Anesthesia. Dr. El-Boghdadly completed his undergraduate training at University College of London in 2007 and proceeded to undertake his anesthetic training in Southeast School of Anesthesia. He was awarded the Nuffield Prize for the fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and completed fellowships in prehospital medicine in Australia, followed by regional anesthesia in Toronto, Canada. Dr. El-Boghdadly is an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London, and his research interests include regional anesthesia, airway management, and research delivery. He is a brilliant researcher and writer and is well-known for his work in the COVIDSurg Collaborative during the ongoing pandemic, and the ASRA-ESRA regional anesthesia nomenclature project. *The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice, and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care, or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others. Podcast and music produced by Dan Langa. Find us on Twitter @RAPMOnline.

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Dr. Félix Boria to discuss the validation of ESGO quality indicators for cervical cancer. Mr. Boria is an attending physician of the gynecologic oncology division at the University of Navarra (Madrid, Spain) under the mentorship of Dr. Luis Chiva. He is currently finishing his PhD at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid about PET/CT and advanced ovarian cancer. Highlights: - Women who were operated on centers with high compliance of quality indicators had significant lower risk of relapse (HR, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.25 to 0.61; p<0.001). The association remained significant after further adjustment for conization, surgical approach and use of manipulator and for adjuvant therapy. - High compliance centers performed more open surgeries (58.4% vs 36.7%, p<0.01), more cone biopsies (45.4% vs 30.0%, p<0.01), lower use of a uterine manipulator (15.5% vs 31.7%, p<0.01), lower use of adjuvant treatment (40.2% vs 48.4%, p=0.01). - The rate of adjuvant treatment in Europe is surprisingly high, especially in low compliance centers (48%). Future investigations should try to address if we are overtreating patients with cervical cancer.

Medicine is occasionally like the reality TV show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in that some of the things we have to do are just unpleasant, whereas other parts may be phobia-inducing. But how might having a phobia as a medical student affect the ways you are able to work on placement? In today’s episode, we’re going to be talking all about phobias. We’ll discuss what happens when you have a phobic response to something, the ways that this can impact you whilst studying medicine, and how to tell whether something is just dislike or an actual phobia. Expert guests: Dr Digby Quested is a general adult psychiatrist working in Oxford. He works in the community, and has covered many of the GP practices which serve the student population. He self managed blood phobia whilst at medical school Check us out on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BMJStudent Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmj_student/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BMJStudent/ This podcast is produced and edited by Dom Byrne and Duncan Jarvies.

#MedTwitter consists of an online community of researchers, health practitioners and students who have created an open source decentralised forum for information sharing, medical education and professional networking. #MedTwitter also provides a space for publications to be shared and promoted. While many will credit Twitter with giving a voice to clinicians, it also comes with challenges, the potential for abuse, or the spread of misinformation. Joining Clara to discuss are; Jonathan Guckian, a dermatology registrar in Leeds, and director of social media and communications at the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASMI). Flo Wedmore, a medical registrar and NHS sustainability fellow Declan Murphy, an academic medical fellow S2 in ophthalmology in Newcastle, and former Sharp Scratch panelist.

In this month’s podcast, Journal of Investigative Medicine Social Media Editor John Dickinson, MD, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, welcomes guest Nick Bell for a discussion of cystic fibrosis from the patient perspective. Nick has lived his entire life under the shadow of CF. However, thanks to new advances in CF treatment based on our understanding of the fundamental biology of the CF protein, Nick has been able to emerge from the shadow of CF. He is a successful business owner and community philanthropist who has used his talent with poetry and creative writing to enrich the lives of the less fortunate in the community. In this episode, we explore how science and medical research make lasting impacts on people’s lives.

We release episodes fortnightly. Hypothermia is a serious condition - it can cause rhabdomyolysis, electrolyte disturbances, and cardiac arrhythmias. It can also kill. In the UK, the annual number of hypothermia-related deaths is about 300. And in countries with colder climates, the numbers are far higher. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. In this BMJ Best Practice podcast, Kieran Walsh talks to Dr Alexander Alexiou, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Barts Health NHS Trust about hypothermia. Competing interests: none declared

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Drs. Ilaria Betella and Francesco Multinu. Dr. Betella is an attending in the Department of Gynecologic Surgery at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan. Her research focuses on molecular classification of endometrial cancer and on hereditary gynecologic cancer syndromes. Dr. Multinu is a gynecologic oncologist at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan as well as a research collaborator in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His special research interests include surgical and postoperative treatment of endometrial cancer. Highlights: - There is evidence that the new molecular classification will be the future in the management of endometrial cancer. - The implementation of molecular analysis allows oncologists to reallocate to a different risk class 6.8% of endometrial cancers that otherwise would have been misclassified and consequently undertreated or overtreated. - The interpretation of molecular classification requires a validated hierarchical algorithm, for which POLE analysis is essential: Even though POLE testing has not been implemented in many institutions, there is no way to use part of the molecular analysis and completely escape POLE analysis. - According to the new algorithm proposed by Dr. Betella et al., POLE analysis could be spared in 67% of patients and reserved only for those in whom the incorporation of the molecular classification could change the risk class attribution and post-operative management.

One way that start-ups can help accelerate their growth is by entering (and winning!) competitions – like the WISH 2022 Innovation Award. BMJ Innovations was in Doha and spoke to the organisers and some of the winners of this year’s award to get their insight on what makes for a successful entry. Joining us are – Mahmoud El Achi, Head of Innovation at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) Nicolas Vachicouras, CEO & Co-founder at Neurosoft Bioelectronics Yashar Faranjani, CEO & Co-founder at Smiletronix

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2022 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/12/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

Welcome back to the Thorax Podcast, home to the discussion of new research and hot topics in respiratory research and clinical practice. In this first episode, we introduce you to the three new Editors of the Thorax journal: Dr. Mark Griffiths and Dr. Jennifer Quint, both from Imperial College London, and Dr. Cecilia O'Kane, from Queen's University Belfast. They outline plans for the Thorax journal, including the social media strategy and engaging readers and trainees. You'll also get to know a bit more about the two new social media editors of the journal, Dr. Puja Mehta, from University College London and Dr. Kate Diomede from Imperial College London, whose voices you'll get very familiar with over the coming months, as they are our two new podcast hosts. Please engage in the conversation through the social media channels (Twitter - @ThoraxBMJ; Facebook - @Thorax.BMJ · Pulmonologist) and subscribe on your preferred platform, to get the latest episodes directly on your device each month. If you enjoy the Thorax Podcast, please leave us a rating and a review on the Thorax Podcast page on iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thorax-podcast/id343304910.

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Maoyi Tian, from Harbin Medical University in China. They discuss his paper entitled "Effects of salt substitutes on clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis". 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/early/2022/07/21/heartjnl-2022-321332

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Paolo Zola to discuss the TOTEM trial. For 20 years, Dr. Zola has been Chair of Gynaecological Oncology in the Department of Surgical Sciences of the University of Turin (Italy). Dr. Zola has conducted a large number of national and international randomized clinical trials in order to optimize the treatments for women diagnosed with gynaecological cancers. He has served as a member of the board of the EORTC Gynaecological Cancer Group and of the ESGO. Dr. Zola chairs the gynaecological cooperative group within the Oncological Network in Piedmont Region, and his research has been reported in more than 400 manuscripts published in peer reviewed literature. Highlights: - To perform the follow up in patients treated for endometrial cancer, the cornerstone is the clinical control. - In low-risk patients, surveillance every 6 months is appropriate. - In high-risk patients a clinical examination every 4 months for 2 years and then every 6 is recommended. - In addition, our data suggest taking a CT after 12 and 20 months after the primary treatment.

Last month, saw the WISH 2022 - the World Innovation Summit for Health, where experts from around the world came and presented their ideas. In this podcast we'll hear from Dame Sally Davies, the UK’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance - she explains how covid, and treatment uncertainty, put paid to conservative prescribing; and what innovations in microbial treatment are on the horizon. Following that, James Campbell, director of the health workforce department at the WHO, who joins us to talk about new data they have on the wellbeing, and why the international market for healthcare staff is no longer the simple solution for vacancies. The BMJ's collections we mentioned are on empowering and engaging patients (https://www.bmj.com/empowering-and-engaging-patients) and food security and health in a changing environment (https://www.bmj.com/food-security-and-health-in-a-changing-environment)

This week, we’re joined by Huseyin Naci to discuss the recent press release from Eisai and Biogen announcing the Phase III trial results for lecanemab for use in Alzheimer’s disease, and the FDA’s decision to accept the drug onto its accelerated approval pathway. We talk about the pros and cons of using surrogate endpoints to predict clinical outcomes. How can we strike a better balance in clinical trials between generating high-quality and trustworthy evidence, and the urgent needs of patients with life-limiting conditions and very few available treatment options? Our guest: Huseyin Naci is an associate professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is also an advisor to the Analysis section of The BMJ.

In a series of podcasts to mark the 60th anniversary of DTB, we talk to some of DTB's Editorial Board members and other colleagues about their work and their involvement with DTB. In this podcast, David Phizackerley (DTB's deputy editor) talks to Dr Jo Congleton, who is a consultant in Integrated Respiratory Care in Brighton and Hove. She is also clinical lead for the Kent, Surrey, Sussex Academic Health and Science Network (AHSN) Respiratory Programme. Her interests are in chronic respiratory conditions (particularly COPD) and reducing both variation, and inequalities, in care. This special series of the DTB Podcast is produced by Leticia Amorim. Please subscribe to the DTB podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening.

Exercise Medicine and Physical Activity Promotion with Dr. Irfan Asif EP# 519 On this episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast, host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD, is joined by Dr. Irfan Asif, MD, to discuss the topic of Exercise Medicine and Physical Activity Promotion. Dr. Asif, who is the Chair of the AMSSM Collaborative Research Network, helped lead the 2021 Research Summit, which produced several publications and educational resources related to Exercise Medicine and Physical Activity Promotion. In this conversation, he addresses the following topics and questions: • A refresher on the 2021 Research Summit and the significant outcomes from that event • How the Exercise Medicine and Physical Activity Promotion Core Curricula originated • More details about the interactive and freely available Exercise Medicine & Physical Activity Promotion Modules • How can physicians and other medical faculty integrate these resources into their clinical practices? • Providing information about the upcoming 2023 Research Summit on Justice, Equity and Inclusion, which takes place in April 2023 • Future publications, deliverables and other opportunities stemming from the 2021 Research Summit Additional Resources Exercise Medicine & Physical Activity Promotion Modules tinyurl.com/exercisemodules Exercise Medicine and Physical Activity Promotion: Core Curricula for US Medical Schools, Residencies and Sports Medicine Fellowships https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/56/7/369.full.pdf

Accents and dialects are influenced by so many different things including race, gender, and class. They change frequently depending on where we are, who we are with, and even what we are trying to get out of any given interaction. But why does this happen? Do we gravitate towards a certain accent in order to fit in? In this episode, we'll find out what an accent actually is, we'll discuss how our accents have changed whilst we've been at university, and we'll also examine the judgement that can arise when you speak in a ‘different’ accent to what someone else is used to. Expert guests: Lisa Casey is an Assistant Principal in a secondary school in London with a background in English and literacy. She is one of the hosts of Lexis, a podcast about language and linguistics for A Level students, teachers and anyone else who's interested in language. Check us out on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BMJStudent Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmj_student/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BMJStudent/ This podcast is produced and edited by Dom Byrne and Duncan Jarvies.

The moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from Alzheimer's. Brandy Schillace (Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief) interviews Cindy Weinstein, Vice Provost and Professor of English at California Institute of Technology. Related blog including the transcription of the podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/11/08/cindy-weinstein/ Subscribe to the Medical Humanities Podcast in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Medical Humanities Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/medical-humanities-podcast/id961667204). Thank you for listening!

We release episodes fortnightly. Parkinson's disease is a common and serious condition. It is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world - only Alzheimer's disease is more common. And Parkinson's disease can cause a range of complications - from dyskinesias to depression to dementia. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. In this BMJ Best Practice podcast, Kieran Walsh talks to Delaram Safarpour, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Competing interests: DS has received honoraria for participation in advisory boards for Boston Scientific (the manufacturer of Deep Brain Stimulation devices) and Abbvie (the manufacturer of Duopa). She has received consultation fees from Abbott (the manufacturer of Deep Brain Stimulation devices). DS has received an institutional grant and has received an honorarium for lectures from the Parkinson’s Study Group.

In this month's podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Dr Rod McClure​, talks with Professor Fred Rivara, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine. They explore what is unique about Injury Prevention as a field, and where this field integrates with the more general world of public health. They also discuss leadership in injury prevention and the major challenges ahead. Some of Professor Fred Rivara's latest papers: - A Qualitative study on diverse perspectives and identities of firearm owners - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/5/434 - Concussion education for youth athletes using Pre-Game Safety Huddles: a cluster-randomised controlled trial - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2022/09/16/ip-2022-044665 - Predictors of health-related quality of life following injury in childhood and adolescence: a pooled analysis - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/4/301 - Association of state-level intoxicated driving laws with firearm homicide and suicide - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/1/32 - Age, period and cohort effects in firearm homicide and suicide in the USA, 1983–2017 - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/4/344 Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!