BMJ Group pandemic flu podcasts

Helen MacDonald finds out about acute kidney injury from Jim Stewart, principle author of a new National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) report. Following the publication of a cross sectional study, Duncan Jarvies finds out fr

Why are men more unhealthy than women? To mark Men’s Health Week in the UK, Deborah Cohen finds out from Ian Banks, president of the Men’s Health Forum, if the problem lies with men or with their doctors. Tony Delamothe talk to Adam Ali about how percepti

Helen Morant asks Anthony Kessel, director of public health strategy at the Health Protection Agency, about the role of the HPA in managing pandemic influenza. This podcast is an update on “Swine flu - an update” and discusses the move from containment to

This week, to steal a line from the latest BMJ editor’s choice, we’ll be talking shit. The millennium development goal on sanitation is way off track; Lyla Mehta, a sociologist from the Institute of Development Studies, tells us why, and Kamal Kar, a deve

In this week’s podcast we find out from Sean Tunis about the future of comparative effectiveness research in the USA, and how the new institute created to champion it will differ from the UK’s National Institute of Clinical Excellence. Also, Claudia Coop

A person’s right to refuse treatment is based on their capacity to make a rational decision – but what is the situation when someone is admitted after a suicide attempt? Can you be simultaneously rational and suicidal? Anthony David from the Institute of

In a series of articles, this spotlight focuses on recognising and managing the end of life, having the difficult conversations with patients about their death, and the importance of taking into account the spiritual aspects of death. In this podcast Dunc

This week we’re joined by Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the Loncon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He’s also research director of the European observatory on health systems and policies, a group that promotes evidence based

Last week saw Safety 2010, the international conference on preventable accidents. We hear from some of the speakers there why safety comes second when it comes to global health. Also this week, female sexual dysfunction - fact or fiction. In advance of a

Last week BMJ Careers published “The new lost tribe,” describing the cohort of surgical trainees moving from ST2 to ST3. In this podcast Edward Davies, BMJ Careers editor, and Tom Dolphin, a member of the BMA junior doctors’ committee, describe how compet

This week Beate Wieseler from IQWiG (Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen) tells us how they uncovered data on the antidepressant reboxetine. Also Angela Thomas and Julia Anderson, haematologists from the Comprehensive Care Ha

In this week’s podcast Jayati Das-Munshi, from the Institute of Psychiatry, London, talks about her study into the mental health effects of ethnic density. Also, hyper/hypo - antonyms that can sound almost identical. Adam Frankel and Phillip Vecchio from

China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens. We’ll be finding out from Scott Rozelle, from Stanford University and Qingye Meng from Peking University, the background to the formation of the

A BMJ investigation this week raises concerns about the ability of the US Food and Drug Administration to monitor the safety of medical devices through post-approval surveillance. We ask: is the FDA giving device manufacturers an easy regulatory ride? Al

This week the podcast’s all about risk, as we bring you two reports from Risky Business, the conference where speakers from a wide range of hazardous industries came together to share ideas. Pat Crosskerry tells Rebecca Coombes how his work shows thinkin