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The BMJ Best Practice podcast publishes interviews with clinical experts, aimed at healthcare professionals and students with an interest in keeping up to date with the latest scientific developments, evidence-based medicine and guidelines.
BMJ Best Practice is ranked one of the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals worldwide.* Structured around the clinical workflow and updated daily, BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
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Essential tremor from 2022-04-06T16:47:53
Essential tremor is characterised by a progressive tremor of the upper extremities, present in posture and action, without other neurological signs or symptoms. The prevalence and incidence increa...
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Asthma In adults from 2022-03-09T17:14:25
Patients with asthma present with recurrent episodes of shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing, or coughing. Examination typically demonstrates an expiratory wheeze; however, in severe ast...
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Bacterial meningitis from 2022-02-25T17:55:09
Bacterial meningitis represents a life-threatening inflammation of the meninges. Elisabeth Adderson, Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty, Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program,...
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Type 1 diabetes from 2022-02-03T20:23:59
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterised by hyperglycaemia due to absolute insulin deficiency. The condition develops due to destruction of pancreatic beta cells, mostly by im...
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Generalised anxiety disorder from 2022-01-28T12:16:13
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common condition defined as chronic, excessive worry for at least six months that causes distress or impairment. Christopher Gale, Research Director and Con...
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Lyme disease from 2022-01-13T11:55:41
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 ...
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Post-traumatic stress disorder from 2021-11-05T14:40:26
Post-traumatic stress disorder may develop (either immediately or delayed) following exposure to a stressful event or situation of an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature. According to...
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Chronic congestive heart failure from 2021-09-20T19:46:36
Chronic congestive heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the ventricle to fill with or eject bl...
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COVID-19: Vaccine immunogenicity, interleukin-6 inhibitors, mucormycosis from 2021-07-28T13:22:21
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to Covid-19. Abigail Davis, GP and section editor, co...
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Persistent depressive disorder from 2021-07-19T16:01:46
Persistent depressive disorder is a category that includes various forms of chronic depression in which depressive symptoms are present 'more days than not' over at least a 2-year period (1 year in...
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Chronic sinusitis from 2021-07-19T15:11:02
Chronic sinusitis is inflammation of the paranasal sinuses lasting more than 12 weeks. Symptoms include facial pressure, rhinorrhoea, postnasal drainage, congestion, and general malaise.Raj Sindwa...
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Bulimia nervosa from 2021-06-28T13:18:34
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder, characterised by severe preoccupation about weight and body shape. Includes recurrent episodes of binge eating with compensatory mechanisms, such as self-indu...
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Giant cell arteritis from 2021-05-19T16:56:15
Giant cell arteritis is a common form of vasculitis in people aged 50 years or older. The extracranial branches of the carotid artery are usually affected. Kenneth J. Warrington, Professor of Medi...
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COVID-19: Vaccination in pregnancy, myocardial infarction, and respiratory conditions from 2021-05-12T15:57:05
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19.
Emma Scott, section editor, upda...
Covid-19 update: Blood clots, acute kidney injury, VTE prevention, secondary bacterial pneumonia from 2021-04-14T13:40:36
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Emma Scott, section editor, updates us o...
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Depression in adults from 2021-04-08T15:44:15
Depression can describe both a mood and an illness. Major depressive disorder is a clinical syndrome involving mood, neurovegetative functions, cognition, and behaviour.It affects 5% to 10% of pat...
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Constipation in children from 2021-03-04T11:49:31
Childhood constipation is typically characterised by infrequent bowel evacuations, large stools, and difficult or painful defecation. Symptoms may result from low fibre, poor nutrient, and/or insu...
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Raynaud's phenomenon from 2021-02-22T17:44:53
Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) is characterised by vasospasm that causes digits to change colour to white (pallor) from lack of blood flow, usually brought on by cold temperatures. Affected areas subs...
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Chronic kidney disease from 2021-02-17T14:54:37
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common condition that is often unrecognised until the most advanced stages. The most common causes are diabetes mellitus and hypertension.Manisha Singh, Assistant...
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Covid-19 update: Management, vaccination and chronic conditions from 2021-02-04T15:29:37
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Matt Castleden, GP and section editor, u...
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Depression in children from 2021-01-21T14:37:55
Depression in children is characterised by sad or irritable mood, anhedonia, decreased capacity to have fun, decreased self-esteem, sleep disturbance, social withdrawal or impaired social relations...
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Covid-19 update: Vaccination, long covid-19, endocrine conditions, bronchiolitis from 2021-01-14T15:33:01
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Matt Castleden, GP and section editor, u...
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Covid-19: Vaccination, remdesivir, and comorbidities from 2020-12-17T11:20:23
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Matt Castleden, GP and section editor, u...
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Acute asthma exacerbations in children from 2020-12-16T14:45:23
Asthma exacerbations present with acute or sub-acute onset of wheeze and respiratory distress, the symptoms and signs of which vary depending on the developmental and maturational age of the child....
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Covid-19 and comorbidities from 2020-11-30T16:01:05
A recent meta-analysis by Espinosa and colleagues, “Prevalence of Comorbidities in Patients and Mortality Cases Affected by SARS-CoV2”, found that 42% of patients with Covid-19 had comorbidities. ...
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Gestational diabetes from 2020-11-09T12:20:31
Gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy and is usually diagnosed at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation on the basis of elevated plasma glucose levels on glucose tolerance testing. The goal of ther...
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Updates in acute medicine: Pulmonary embolism and vaping associated lung injury from 2020-10-30T17:03:01
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks Matt Castleden, GP and editor for BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning, to summarise the latest clinical guidance in acute medicine. Dr Castleden updates...
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Diverticular disease from 2020-10-05T17:13:50
Colonic diverticulosis refers to herniation of the mucosa and submucosa through the muscular layer of the colonic wall and may be the result of colonic smooth muscle over-activity. Diverticular d...
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Covid-19 update: Antibody testing, mental health, flu vaccination from 2020-10-01T13:45:02
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Matt Castleden updates us on the clinica...
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Anaphylaxis from 2020-09-24T16:21:09
Anaphylaxis is a severe, generalised or systemic hypersensitivity reaction. It is characterised by rapidly developing life-threatening airway and/or breathing and/or circulation problems usually as...
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Covid-19 update: Steroids, PPE, long covid, public mental health from 2020-09-17T13:19:19
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Matt Castleden updates us on treatment w...
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End of life care from 2020-09-10T14:51:57
End of life care is specialised medical care for people with serious illness that focuses on the best quality of life for both the patient and their family. Oliver Minton, Macmillan Consultant, Br...
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Fibromyalgia from 2020-08-26T14:03:46
Fibromyalgia patients typically present with chronic, widespread body pain and almost always have accompanying comorbid symptoms such as fatigue, memory difficulties, and sleep and mood difficultie...
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Covid-19 update: Self-isolation, non-Covid-19 hospital admissions, planned care, and weight from 2020-08-17T15:08:27
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Matt Castleden updates us on self-isolat...
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Deep vein thrombosis from 2020-07-08T13:34:54
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the development of a blood clot in a major deep vein in the leg, thigh, pelvis, or abdomen, which may result in impaired venous blood flow and consequent leg swelling ...
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Covid-19 update: ADHD, renal transplant patients, care for covid-19 patients post discharge from 2020-07-02T12:45:54
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Abigail Davis discusses the latest guida...
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Assessment of chest pain from 2020-06-29T15:26:43
Chest pain is a common chief complaint. It may be caused by either benign or life-threatening aetiologies and is usually divided into cardiac and non-cardiac causes. James E. Brown, Professor and ...
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Covid-19 update: Cardiovascular disease, testing, social distancing and shielding, and dexamethasone from 2020-06-18T12:58:31
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Emma Scott discusses the latest guidance...
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Anorexia nervosa from 2020-06-11T15:04:06
Patients with anorexia nervosa typically have low body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, and a body image disturbance. In this podcast Evelyn Attia, Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia Univers...
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Covid-19 update : Osteoporosis, migraine, HIV, venous thromoembolism from 2020-06-04T14:08:39
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Abigail Davis talks about advice for pat...
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Covid-19 update: CKD, interstitial lung disease, testing for healthcare workers from 2020-05-21T10:41:48
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19. Abigail Davis talks about advice for pat...
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Schizophrenia from 2020-05-20T13:20:13
Schizophrenia onset is usually in early adulthood and may be preceded by years of ill-differentiated symptoms, from behavioural changes and delusions to frank psychosis. Initially, patients are us...
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Covid-19 update: Covid toes, CPR, newborn care from 2020-05-14T13:51:02
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covid-19.Matt Castleden covers dermatological manif...
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Covid-19 update: Routine immunisation, thromboembolism, contact tracing, mental health from 2020-05-07T13:16:15
In this podcast, Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clincial guidance related to covid-19. Emma Scott covers the l...
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Atrial fibrillation from 2020-04-30T14:56:42
Atrial fibrillation is chaotic and irregular atrial arrhythmia, the prevalence of which increases progressively with age. It causes significant morbidity and death. Many patients are asymptomatic o...
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Covid-19 update: PPE, covid-19 in children, palliative care, perinatal care from 2020-04-30T13:08:32
In our new weekly podcast, Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning to summarise how clinical guidance is changing in response to covid-19. Matt...
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Covid-19 update: Rheumatological conditions, COPD, GP workload prioritisation from 2020-04-23T13:38:52
In our new weekly podcast, Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning to summarise how clinical guidance is changing in response to covid-19. Abi...
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Covid-19 update: PPE, frailty and pneumonia from 2020-04-16T13:47:56
In this podcast, editors from BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning cover this week's major covid-19 clinical updates. Matt Castleden and Abigail Davis, both Section Editors at BMJ Best practice and ...
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Tension headache from 2020-04-15T13:17:04
Tension-type headaches can be either episodic or chronic. They are rarely disabling or associated with any significant autonomic phenomena, thus patients do not usually seek medical care and usuall...
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Rheumatoid arthritis from 2020-04-06T12:47:37
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, erosive arthritis that requires early and aggressive treatment. In this podcast, Yusuf Yazici, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, New York University Scho...
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Osteoporosis from 2020-03-19T14:42:06
Osteoporosis is a complex skeletal disease characterised by low bone density and micro-architectural defects in bone tissue, resulting in increased bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. I...
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Suicide risk management from 2020-03-04T16:39:54
Suicide is not inevitable. Most people experiencing suicidal thoughts are ambivalent about dying but may be unable to imagine other potential solutions. With the right support people can find their...
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ADHD In adults from 2020-02-12T11:44:24
Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder presenting with inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, persisting into adulthood. It is characteris...
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Postnatal depression from 2020-01-30T15:29:31
Postnatal depression refers to a depressive illness following childbirth and may form part of a unipolar or, less frequently, a bipolar illness. Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, MRC Centre for ...
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Hypertension from 2020-01-15T14:07:09
Hypertension is a common disorder that affects a large proportion of the community. It is usually asymptomatic and is detected on routine examination or after the occurrence of a complication such ...
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Heart failure, with preserved ejection fraction from 2020-01-02T15:56:08
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome resulting from the impaired ability of the heart to cope with the metabolic needs of the body, resulting in breathlessness, fatigue, and fluid retention...
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Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever from 2019-12-04T17:04:10
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)is a notifiable condition, and outbreaks have occurred in Asia, Africa, and Southeast Europe. It resents as a sudden-onset, severe illness with initial influ...
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Alzheimer's dementia from 2019-11-27T16:54:14
Alzheimer's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease with an insidious onset and progressive but slow decline. It is the most common type of dementia. Judith Neugroschl, Assistant Professor ...
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Comorbidities from 2019-11-05T15:50:19
According to NICE, two thirds of people aged 65 or over have more than one medical condition, and 47% have three or more. Martin Cowie, Professor of Cardiology, Imperial College London, discusses ...
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Crohn's disease from 2019-10-31T17:16:03
Crohn's disease is a condition is a disorder of unknown aetiology, with common presenting symptoms including chronic diarrhoea, weight loss, and right lower quadrant abdominal pain mimicking acute ...
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Coeliac disease from 2019-08-14T10:51:07
Coeliac disease is common, affecting up to 1% of the general population, and has a varied presentation. Matthew Kurien, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, Departm...
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Infant botulism from 2019-08-08T15:35:45
Botulism is a paralytic illness caused by the neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum, and it is most commonly seen in infants. In this podcast Linda Nield, Professor of Pediatrics, West Virg...
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Nephrolithiasis from 2019-08-07T10:57:23
Jodi Antonelli, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, gives us a clinical overview of nephrolithiasis. For more on nephrolithiasis, visit BMJ...
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Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus from 2019-07-04T15:30:37
Venezuelan equine encephalitis is a mosquito-borne virus, endemic to Central and South America. It usually causes mild and self-limiting disease in humans, however CNS infection can lead to long-te...
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Building a therapeutic relationship with psychologically distressed patients from 2019-05-30T16:23:46
Nigel Cowley is a GP from the Denmark Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth, UK, with a special interest in mental health, and in this podcast he shares his advice on, and experiences of, assessing, m...
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HIV in pregnancy from 2019-05-16T12:59:42
Pregnancy in women living with HIV is complicated not only by HIV infection itself but also by the medical and psychosocial comorbidities associated with HIV. Prof Rachel Scott, Scientific Directo...
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Henipavirus from 2019-05-09T14:17:15
Henipavirus is a rare, but emerging, infection in the Asia-Pacific region. An outbreak of Nipah virus infection was reported in India in May 2018, but was quickly contained. Catherine Houlihan, Cl...
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Opioid use disorder from 2019-04-18T13:22:11
Global trends in the estimated number of drug users (2009 to 2014) indicate that the use of opioids, including the use of heroin and opium, and the non-medical use of pharmaceutical opioids, has st...
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Multiple sclerosis from 2019-03-25T12:08:05
Alissa Willis, Staff Neurologist in the Neurological Institute's Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Cleveland Clinic, gives us a clinical overview of multiple sclerosis. For more on multiple sc...
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Bipolar disorder from 2019-03-04T16:08:20
Sudhakar Selvaraj, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Centre, gives us a clinical overview of bipolar disorder. For more on bipolar disorder, visit BMJ Bes...
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Politics of epidemics from 2019-02-18T12:02:23
We know that infectious disease outbreaks are caused by pathogens, but some would argue that they are also a biological manifestation of social inequality. Here to discuss the politics of disease ...
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Migraine, with Prof Tim Collins from 2019-01-23T12:09:42
Prof Tim Collins, Associate Professor of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, USA, gives us a clinical overview of migraine. For more on migraine, visit BMJ Best Practice: bestpractice.bmj.c...
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A clinical guide to COPD, with Prof Mike Morgan from 2019-01-07T12:03:31
Prof Mike Morgan, National Clinical Director Respiratory NHS England, gives us a clinical guide to COPD. To learn more about COPD, visit BMJ Learning:Managing acute exacerbations of COPD in primar...
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Marine toxins poisoning, with Dr Jacob Lebin from 2018-11-29T11:43:10
Dr Jacob A Lebin, Emergency Medicine Resident, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, gives a clinical guide to marine toxins poisoning. To learn more about marine toxins poisoning, ...
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South American haemorrhagic fevers, with Prof Thomas Ksiazek from 2018-11-28T11:02:21
South American haemorrhagic fevers are a group of five highly dangerous and highly infectious diseases. Professor Thomas Ksiazek, Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galvest...
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Melioidosis, with Prof David Dance from 2018-11-15T13:48:01
Prof David Dance, senior clinical research fellow and consultant microbiologist, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos, gives us a clinical overview of melioidosis. For more information on ...
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Ending epidemics, with Dr Jonathan Quick from 2018-11-02T16:32:21
Dr Jonathan Quick, author of 'The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It', discusses the threat of epidemics and pandemics, and how they can be prevented. To learn mor...
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Recognise, refer and report Poxvirus infection, with Dr Tom Blanchard from 2018-10-04T15:56:22
Learn how to recognise, refer and report Poxvirus infection, with Dr Thomas Blanchard, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Royal Liverpool Ho...
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Marburg virus from 2018-10-01T16:14:05
Lisa Bebell, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and who conducts research in to infectious diseases and critical care medicine, gives us a clinical guide to Marburg Virus. To ...
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Differential Diagnosis, with Dr Rakesh Patel from 2018-08-06T10:55:19
In this podcast, Rakesh Patel, Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the University of Nottingham, talks us through making a diagnosis in the con...
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Abrin poisoning, with Prof Scott Phillips from 2018-07-19T10:48:50
This podcast is a clinical guide to abrin poisoning, with Scott Phillips, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Clinical Pharm&Toxicology, University of Colorado - Denver. To learn more about ...
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Rift Valley Fever: Recognise, refer and report, with Prof Clayton Wiley from 2018-07-03T13:26:05
Clayton Willey, Professor of Pathology,? UPMC Presbyterian Hospital Division of Neuropathology, Pittsburgh, USA, talks us through the recognition, referral and reporting of Rift Valley Fever.To lea...
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Viral haemorrhagic fevers in children, with Nathalie MacDermott from 2018-06-26T09:02:22
A clinical guide to viral haemorrhagic fevers in children, with Nathalie MacDermott, Wellcome Clinical Research Training Fellow, Imperial College London. To learn more about viral haemorrhagic fev...
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Recognise, refer and report Lassa fever, with John Schieffelin from 2018-06-25T14:51:20
How to recognise, refer and report Lassa fever, with John Schieffelin, Assistant Professor of Medicine&Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans. To learn more about Lassa Feve...
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A clinical guide to ricin poisoning, with Prof Susan Smolinske from 2018-06-21T14:41:37
Susan Smolinske, Director of the New Mexico Drug and Poison Information Centre, and Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, University of New Mexico, gives us a clinical guide t...
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Brucellosis, with Drs Nick Beeching and Alessandro Gerada from 2018-05-29T16:08:34
A clinical guide to Brucellosis, with Drs Nick Beeching, Senior Lecturer Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Alessandro Gerada, Medical Microbiology Trainee, both at the Liverpool School of Tropical ...
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Fever in the returning traveller from 2018-04-04T15:28:33
International travel is increasingly common. Between 10% and 42% of travellers to any destination, and 15%-70% of travellers to tropical settings experience ill health, either while abroad or on re...
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Avian Influenza: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral with Dr Mary-Margaret Fill from 2018-03-19T08:50:17
Dr Mary-Margaret Fill currently works as a Medical Epidemiologist in Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness at the Tennessee Department of Health. To learn more about ...
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Typhus group rickettsiae: Recognise, report, refer from 2018-03-01T18:46:21
Christopher Paddock, Medical Officer and pathologist in the Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch in CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, gives a clinical guide to recognising and managing typhus group r...
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Tularaemia: Recognition and management with Dr Isaac Bogoch from 2018-02-07T16:51:42
A clinical guide to recognising and managing Tularaemia. Dr Isaac Bogoch is a clinical researcher, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Canada.To learn more about Tularaemia Infection, vis...
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Coxiella Burnetii Infection: your questions answered by Dr Matthieu Million from 2018-02-06T11:38:55
Dr. Matthieu Million is a Senior Lecturer and Hospital Practitioner at the Infectious Diseases Unit, Centre Expert du Microbiote Humain, in Marseille, France. To learn more about Coxiella Burne...
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Hypertension - Everything You Need To Know About The New 2017 AHA/ACC Guidelines from 2018-01-10T15:03:12
Hypertension: everything you need to know about the new 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines This podcast covers the implications of the new 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines for clinicians and their patients, including...
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Plague - a guide to diagnosing and managing Yersinia with Dr Amesh Adalja from 2018-01-09T11:05:16
Plague - a guide to diagnosing and managing Yersinia Dr. Amesh Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. He also serves on the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV...
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Botulism: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral - with Dr Claudia Kraft from 2017-12-21T16:06:33
Botulism: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral - with Dr Claudia Kraft Dr Claudia Kraft, MD, CCFP (EM), MSc, is an emergency physician, formerly a full-service family physician. She has ...
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Ebola: medical guidance and lessons from West Africa with Dr Tom Fletcher from 2017-10-30T16:26:15
BMJ Clinical Director Dr Kieran Walsh speaks with Dr Tom Fletcher (http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-tom-fletcher) about Ebola infection. Dr Tom Fletcher is a Wellcome Trust/Ministry of Defen...
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Hepatitis C: What have been our successes so far? from 2017-07-26T15:08:52
Following acute exposure to the hepatitis C virus, most people develop chronic infection that increases the risk for long-term hepatic complications. Current treatment with oral direct-acting agent...
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Hepatitis B: How to approach diagnosis and management of chronic infection from 2017-07-26T14:59:57
Most people with chronic hepatitis B infection are asymptomatic, but long-term complications may include cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver failure. Jawad Ahmad, Professor of Medicine in...
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Trigeminal neuralgia - the evidence base for medical and surgical treatments from 2015-03-18T17:35:17
A BMJ Clinical Evidence systematic overview looks at the evidence for medical and surgical treatments of trigeminal neuralgia, and the uncertainties that exist due to gaps in the evidence. This has...
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