BMJ Group pandemic flu podcasts

The focus of this week’s programme is health promotion and behaviour change. Joining Karim Khan, BJSM editor, and Domhnall McAuley, BMJ primary care editor, is Mike Evans, associate professor of family medicine at the University of Toronto and founder of

SPARX is a new cognitive behavioural therapy based computer game for young people with depression. Sally Merry, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Auckland, joins us to explain how it was created. Also this week

BMJ deputy editor Trish Groves talks to Bianca Hemmingsen, a PhD student at Copenhagen University Hospital, about research comparing metformin and insulin with insulin alone, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Also, Dan Lasserson, a senior clinical res

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder with predilection for the optic nerves and spinal cord. Many recent advances, in particular, the discovery of NMO-IgG, an NMO-specific autoantibody, have furthered our understanding of the

It is currently widely accepted among clinicians that chronic tendinopathy is caused by a degenerative process devoid of inflammation. The evidence for non-inflammatory degenerative processes alone as the cause of tendinopathy is surprisingly weak. In t

Mark Lawton, Mayura Nathan, and David Asboe, the authors of a recent editorial in STI, discuss why they think it's time to include young MSM in the national vaccination programme for HPV. Read the full editorial: http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/5/342.full

We know that children in many parts of the world are spending too much time sitting, often glued to screens. But just how inactive are they? A report in BMJ Open from the Millennium Cohort Study looks at physical activity levels and social, economic and

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Eva Shipp, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Rural Public Health in Texas, about her latest research into injury rates amongst adolescent, migrant farmworkers in Starr count

Welcome to the first Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor discuss the practical considerations of heat injury evaluation and manageme

An epidemiological investigation on bmj.com discusses the first probable case of human to human transmission of novel avian influenza A (H7N9). The author of the accompanying editorial, James Rudge, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health produced by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, has found that on almost every comparative measure, Americans fare worse than their counter

How can you treat a young person who is exhibiting the first signs of psychosis? Mabel Chew talks to Professor Tim Kendall a consultant psychiatrist and director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

In this practice special podcast, Timothy Wilt, professor of medicine at Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, explains how to talk to patients about prostate cancer screening. Benjamin C Thomas, senior clinical fellow at Addenbrook

The Francis report into care standards at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was published this week. Triggered by deaths at a hospital in England, Robert Francis QC was appointed by the government to look into why the quality of care in some wards wa

The BMJ held a round table in January 2013 to discuss the future of primary care in England and Wales. The wide ranging topics included out of hours care, commissioning, education, time management, and integration. This is the full version, lasting one ho