Podcasts by Best Science Medicine Podcast - BS without the BS
The Best Science (BS) Medicine Podcast is a weekly presentation where practitioners can get evidence-based drug therapy content that is practical, entertaining and promotes healthy scepticism. In essence, we are the Medication Mythbusters. We present information that is useful and relevant to physicians, pharmacists, nurses, physician assistants and other health professionals, and that can easily be incorporated into day-to-day practice. The podcast is presented by Dr. James McCormack, Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia and Dr Michael Allan, Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of Alberta. For more about us and to get the show notes for each episode, visit our website at www.bsmedicine.com or www.medicationmythbusters.com
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Episode 557: Fancy Creams for Scaly Skin: Topical calcineurin inhibitors for atopic dermatitis from 2023-12-04T18:35:17
Episode 557: Fancy Creams for Scaly Skin: Topical calcineurin inhibitors for atopic dermatitis In episode 557, Mike and James invite Emelie Braschi back to the podcast to talk about how effective t...
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Episode 556: Not a Dry Eye in the House – Looking into Artificial Tears from 2023-11-18T01:37:24
In episode 556, Mike and James have Betsy Thomas back to podcast to talk about how effective are artificial tears for people with dry eyes. Both of us cry halfway through the podcast because of the...
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Episode 555: An ASA a day when a baby’s on the way? from 2023-11-10T00:32:50
In episode 555, James and Mike invite Jamie Falk back to the podcast to talk about the best available evidence for acetylsalicylic acid and its potential impact on reducing the risk of complication...
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Episode 554: Stress Urinary Incontinence: Pelvic floor exercises or pessary? from 2023-11-06T17:27:39
In episode 554, James and Mike go over a topic we have never covered in 553 previous podcasts. We invited Samantha Moe back to the podcast to talk about how effective are pelvic floor exercises or ...
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Episode 553: How to Slow the Flow–Tranexamic acid for heavy menstrual bleeding from 2023-10-31T18:04:41
In episode 553, James and Mike get Jen Potter back to talk about the last option we have for heavy menstrual bleeding – tranexamic acid. We talk about how it compares to placebo, NSAIDs, progestins...
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Episode 552: A free PREMIUM podcast – HTN and HF from 2023-09-28T23:26:13
In episode 552, James and Mike go over a couple of new trials. We talk about a blood pressure trial that examined taking the pills in the morning vs the evening and a heart failure trial that looke...
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Episode 510: PREMIUM – Stopping antidepressants, and starting ASA in pregnancy from 2022-05-03T17:12:13
In episode 510, Mike and James talk about a trial that looks at what happens when you discontinue antidepressants in primary care. We see there is about a 15% absolute difference in the chance of r...
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Episode 509: Removing the pain from dealing with chronic pain–PART IV from 2022-04-27T15:15:16
In episode 509, James, Mike and Tina finish talking about our new clinical practice guideline on chronic pain. We focus on the top questions we all have in chronic pain and also discuss the best av...
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Episode 508: Removing the pain from dealing with chronic pain–PART III from 2022-04-21T16:01:41
In episode 508, James and Mike ask Tina to come in and talk about our new clinical practice guideline on chronic pain. We focus on the best available evidence which shows that physical activity is ...
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Episode 507: Removing the pain from dealing with chronic pain–PART II from 2022-03-31T16:10:30
In episode 507, James and Mike and Adrienne continue the discussion about our new clinical practice guideline on pain. We discuss the evidence for the treatments used for back pain and neuropathic ...
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Episode 506: Removing the pain from dealing with chronic pain from 2022-03-24T16:42:13
In episode 506, James and Mike invite Adrienne Lindblad to discuss our latest clinical practice guideline on the management of chronic low back, osteoarthritic, and neuropathic pain in primary care...
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Episode 505: NephMadness 2022 – albuminuria, basketball and the Great White North from 2022-03-03T00:20:01
In episode 505, James and Mike invite nephrologists Samira Farouk and Matthew Sparks to discuss the tricky issue of albuminuria – who to monitor, what to monitor and who to treat. We spend a ...
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Episode 504: Can It Stay or Must It Go? Extended Use of Intrauterine Devices from 2022-02-20T20:41:42
In episode 504, James and Mike invite Jen Potter back to the podcast to talk about whether or not intrauterine devices for preventing pregnancy can be used beyond the recommended duration of use. I...
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Episode 503: Water, water everywhere – H-2-woah from 2022-02-01T05:51:04
In episode 503, James and Mike explore the evidence around water for a variety of different health outcomes. How much do we need and does it matter where we get it from? The only thing we know is t...
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Episode 502: CO-KID–vaccine for kids from 2022-01-20T23:58:12
In episode 502, James, Mike Kolber and Tony Nickonchuk get together to talk about the easy question (just kidding) of COVID vaccines for children and adolescents. We discuss the best evidence we co...
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Episode 500: THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO LISTEN!!! from 2021-12-17T16:48:29
James and Mike celebrate their 500th, YIKES, podcast episode. You get to hear the entire intro song (Some People) written and recorded by Pete McCormack. We talk about the history of the podcast, t...
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Episode 499: No Gain, No Pain? – Diet-induced weight loss for OA knee pain from 2021-12-09T18:40:03
In episode 499, James and Mike invite Tina back again to discuss the evidence we have for dieting to lose weight and the impact of that on osteoarthritis knee pain. Overall, there isn’t a lot of ev...
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Episode 498: Under Pressure: Compression stockings for recurrent cellulitis? from 2021-11-27T21:04:20
In episode 498, James and Mike invite Tina back yet again to talk about all the evidence we have for using compression stockings in patients with chronic lower limb edema. The NNT for recurrent cel...
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Episode 497: The Nutrition Proposition – a teaser from 2021-11-15T19:18:05
In episode 497, James and Mike decide to go all in on the evidence around nutrition. We start out by going over how we try to actually figure out if a food is beneficial or harmful for you. And for...
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Episode 496: Medications in HFpEF: The Fail Trail – PART II from 2021-11-07T19:03:14
In episode 496, Mike and James continue the discussion with Ricky around the best available evidence we have for heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. Unfortunately, not much wor...
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Episode 495: Medications in HFpEF: The Fail Trail from 2021-10-31T03:26:35
In episode 495, Mike and James invite Ricky back again to talk about the options (not a lot) we have for heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. Ricky goes over all the trials and ...
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Episode 494: Colchicine for your heart – it may not be just for gout from 2021-10-24T18:15:37
In episode 494, Mike and James invite Ricky Turgeon to talk about a potential new use for an old drug – colchicine. Ricky explains all the evidence we have for low-dose colchicine in people with a ...
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Episode 493: A relatively short podcast on “Long COVID” from 2021-10-04T17:58:47
In episode 493, Mike and James review all the Long COVID data. We talk about how many people get it, what the symptoms are and how long it can persist – and it can be a long time. COVID long-term i...
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Episode 491: Keeping it Simple for Emergency Room Dyspepsia from 2021-09-22T19:43:04
In episode 491, Mike and James invite Mike Kolber to talk about Pink Ladies and White Knights. In medical terms we are referring to whether or not it makes sense to add lidocaine and antispasmodics...
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Episode 490: Opening a can of helminths: Ivermectin for COVID-19 from 2021-09-15T16:19:40
In episode 490, Mike and James invite Tony and Mike to go over the best available evidence for ivermectin. Overall the evidence shows that ivermectin does not improve clinically important outcomes....
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Episode 489: Mission Slimpossible – Semaglutide for weight loss from 2021-08-27T20:46:27
In episode 489, Mike and James invite Adrienne to go over the evidence for weight loss with semaglutide. We find the evidence shows that weight loss is on average roughly 10 kg over the effect of p...
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Episode 488: COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events from 2021-08-03T19:58:33
In episode 488, Mike and James invite Mike Kolber back again to chat about what the best evidence says around COVID vaccine adverse effects. We discuss all the numbers around common post-dose side ...
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Episode 487: Real World Evidence for COVID-19 Vaccines from 2021-08-03T19:52:16
In episode 487, Mike and James invite Mike Kolber in to chat about the real-world evidence we have for the COVID vaccine. We find the effectiveness of the COVID vaccines pretty much mirrors what th...
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Episode 486: Needle in a Pain-Stack – Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain from 2021-07-23T17:45:11
In episode 486, Mike and James go over the evidence we have for acupuncture in chronic low back pain. We find out that some evidence shows acupuncture will improve chronic low back pain in one in 6...
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Episode 485: Anti-inflammatories for the treatment of community-treated COVID from 2021-07-06T15:41
In episode 485, Mike and James go over a couple of COVID trials that show two different anti-inflammatories – colchicine and inhaled budesonide – seem to have an effect on reducing hospitalizations...
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Episode 484: PREMIUM – Vitamin D for respiratory infections and overestimating diagnoses from 2021-06-25T21:00
In episode 484, Mike and James go PREMIUM on two topics that annoy them – Vitamin D and interpretation of tests. We find there is no value to using Vitamin D to prevent acute respiratory infections...
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Episode 483: Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s – forget about it? from 2021-06-08T21:00
In episode 483, James and Mike invite Tina to the podcast to talk about the aducanumab (Aduhelm) FDA approval story. We look at all the latest evidence, we talk about how people analyzed the data, ...
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Episode 482: A deep dive into baths for atopic dermatitis from 2021-06-04T21:00
In episode 482, Mike and James take a look into all the evidence for baths for atopic dermatitis. The evidence is fairly clear that more frequent bathing has a reasonable effect in people with mode...
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Episode 481: Clearing up the evidence for topical acne combination products from 2021-05-28T21:06
In episode 481, James and Mike invite Paul Fritsch to go through all the evidence for the benzoyl peroxide/adapalene and benzoyl peroxide/clindamycin combinations that we use for acne. Call us craz...
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Episode 480: Reducing risk rather than reducing surrogates from 2021-05-18T16:38:57
In episode 480, James and Mike talk about two recent meta-analyses that have done a solid job of looking at the impact of lowering blood pressure and using SGLT-2s and GLP-1s to reduce risk. Both p...
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Episode 479: Cannabinoids – an update (not much) for chronic pain from 2021-04-28T09:37:58
In episode 479, Mike and James update the latest information around cannabinoids for chronic pain. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of new information but we talk about what there is and then try ...
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Episode 478: How to slow the flow: NSAIDs for heavy menstrual bleeding from 2021-04-21T08:52:36
In episode 478, James and Mike invite Jen Potter to the podcast yet again to talk about whether or not NSAIDs are effective for reducing menstrual bleeding. While the quality of the evidence is not...
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Episode 477: Vaccine hesitancy in the office: What can I do? from 2021-04-18T09:11:48
In episode 477, James and Mike invite Jen Potter to the podcast for the first time to talk about the important topic of what to do around vaccine hesitancy. We find out the evidence suggests discus...
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Episode 475: A good sleep would be dop(aminergic) doc! Pramipexole in restless legs syndrome from 2021-03-19T08:46:48
In episode 475, Mike and James invite Tina to talk about treatments for restless legs syndrome. in particular pramipexole. We find that pramipexole improves symptoms in ~20% of people over and abov...
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Episode 474: Iron dosing frequency: Is less more or just less? from 2021-03-11T10:17:47
In episode 474, Mike and James discuss the evidence around intermittent iron dosing for people with anemia. We find that once daily dosing of iron yields similar or slightly better hemoglobin versu...
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Episode 473: All the numbers for bisphosphonates and denosumab in osteoporosis from 2021-02-27T16:09:21
In episode 473, Mike and James invite Samantha Moe yet again to talk about a recent Tools for Practice that looked at treatments for osteoporosis. Sam helps us put all the evidence into perspective...
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Episode 472: Glucosamine & Chondroitin: Natural remedies for osteoarthritis? from 2021-02-22T16:59:57
In episode 472, Mike and James invite Samantha Moe in to talk about a recent Tools for Practice that looks at the evidence for glucosamine and chondroitin in osteoarthritis. Sam does a great job of...
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Episode 470: Thinking gooder in medicine – logic missteps - PART III from 2021-01-27T09:32:06
In episode 470, Mike and James finish their discussion about misinterpretation and misdirection in medicine by looking at some of the evidence about how we incorporate new information and whether o...
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Episode 469: Thinking gooder in medicine – logic missteps - PART II from 2021-01-20T09:19:09
In episode 469, Mike and James continue their discussion about misinterpretation and misdirection and how much of it starts with a narrative/story. We bring up a number of specific “stories” that a...
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Episode 468: Thinking gooder in medicine – logic missteps from 2021-01-15T14:42:10
In episode 468, Mike and James start on a multi-podcast rant and talk about how misinterpretation and misdirection can lead us all down rabbit holes in many ways, not just in medicine.
Episode 467: COPD inhalers – the evidence leaves you gasping for breath - PART III from 2020-12-18T11:37:05
In episode 467, Mike and James finish off talking with Jamie Falk about COPD/inhalers. We go over the some of the latest trials for the triple therapies and then wrap up all the evidence into a nic...
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Episode 466: COPD inhalers – the evidence leaves you gasping for breath - PART II from 2020-12-16T01:00
In episode 466, Mike and James continue talking with Jamie Falk about everything COPD/inhalers. We go over the evidence for the steroid component of inhalers and then we start going over the triple...
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Episode 465: COPD inhalers – the evidence leaves you gasping for breath from 2020-12-13T16:38:42
In episode 465, Mike and James invite Jamie Falk to go over all the data we have for the plethora of inhalers and COPD. We start with what we know about single puffers, how we decide whom to treat,...
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