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Will semaglutide buck the trend of other weight loss drugs?

Talk Evidence - April 19, 2024 16:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Helen Macdonald, BMJ's publication ethics and content integrity editor, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM are back with another episode of Talk Evidence. This month, we'll be focussing on semaglutide, for managing obesity. Interviews with James Cave, editor-in-chief of Drug and Therapeutic Bul...

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Insulin without refrigeration and the complexities of consent

Talk Evidence - December 11, 2023 23:28 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The December edition of the Talk Evidence podcast discusses the complexities of seeking consent from patients who are part of large data sets, and some new research to help patients living with diabetes in places without certain power supplies. First patient consent and data - in the UK,  two s...

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Low carb and cancer screening

Talk Evidence - November 09, 2023 10:21 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Each episode of Talk Evidence we take a dive into an issue or paper which is in the news, with a little help from some knowledgeable guests to help us to understand what it all means for clinical care, policy, or research.    In this episode: Helen Macdonald take a deep dive into cancer scree...

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Talking overdiagnosis

Talk Evidence - September 16, 2023 15:19 - 29 seconds ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen and Juan are reporting from Preventing Overdiagnosis - the conference that raises issues of diagnostic accuracy, and asks if starting the process of medicalisation is always the right thing to do for patients.   In this episode, they talk about home testing...

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Ensuring the integrity of research, and the future of AI as authors

Talk Evidence - August 05, 2023 17:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this month's Talk Evidence, we're getting a little meta - how do we keep an eye on research to make sure it's done with integrity. Helen Macdonald is BMJ's Publication ethics and content integrity editor - and we quiz her about what that actually means on a day to day basis. Ensuring the int...

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Talk Evidence - post pandemic pruning, breast cancer screening, and orphan drugs

Talk Evidence - July 03, 2023 08:38 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Talk Evidence,  Helen Macdonald, Joe Ross, and Juan Franco are back to update us on what's happening in the world of medical evidence. Firstly, the news about the end of the covid-19 pandemic was trumpeted, but the changes to research funding have been more quite - and the te...

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Talk Evidence - post pandemic pruning, breast cancer screening, and orphan drugs

Talk Evidence - July 03, 2023 08:38 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Talk Evidence,  Helen Macdonald, Joe Ross, and Juan Franco are back to update us on what's happening in the world of medical evidence. Firstly, the news about the end of the covid-19 pandemic was trumpeted, but the changes to research funding have been more quite - and the te...

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Talk Evidence - cloning, reporting, and disseminating

Talk Evidence - May 05, 2023 18:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco, and Joe Ross are back with our monthly update on the world of evidence based medicine. This episode delves into new methodologies which can use observational data to emulate trial data. We discuss a new systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs for surgical treat...

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Talk Evidence - automatic approval, evidence apps, and pay for performance data

Talk Evidence - March 30, 2023 11:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this month’s Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco and Joseph Ross are back to talk us through some of the latest research, They’ll talk about pay-for-perfomance schemes, and whether the data they routinely collect is measuring outcomes or tickboxes. They’ll also talk about a new anal...

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Talk Evidence - masks, chronic pain, and baby milk formulae claims

Talk Evidence - February 24, 2023 23:46 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald is joined by Juan Franco and Joe Ross, to bring you the newest evidence in The BMJ. First, chronic pain. As prescribers move away from opioids, Juan finds an overview of systematic reviews asking whether anti-depressants might help. Joe finds n...

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Talk Evidence - excess deaths, the ONS, and the healthcare crisis

Talk Evidence - January 27, 2023 16:37 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this week's episode, we're focusing on covid and the ongoing crisis in the NHS. Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco and Joseph Ross cast their evidence seeking eyes over research into outcomes as well as the workload of doctors. Firstly, Joe tells us about a new big data study into longer term outc...

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Talking evidence at Christmas

Talk Evidence - December 21, 2022 11:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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 t...

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Talk Evidence - endometriosis, falling, and better EBM

Talk Evidence - December 02, 2022 14:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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 som...

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Talk Evidence - Diabetes data, colonoscopies, and researchers behaving badly

Talk Evidence - November 02, 2022 10:44 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, is joined again by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Joe Ross, US research editor. They're straying beyond the pages of The BMJ, and discussing an NEJM paper about colonoscopy for colorectal cancer s...

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Talk Evidence - Inquiring about covid, burnout, and marginal data

Talk Evidence - October 12, 2022 17:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
It's October's Talk Evidence, and that means the autumn is upon us including those autumnal viruses. Here in the UK covid is on the rise, and Joe Ross is looking at some research on how good those elusive lateral flows are at detecting infection among people with symptoms of covid. Juan will gi...

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Talk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectiveness

Talk Evidence - August 24, 2022 17:44 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat. They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all t...

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Talk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woes

Talk Evidence - July 31, 2022 15:42 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in the world of evidence. Firstly, last week they went to the first EBM Live conference for two years - and report back on what happened when the evi...

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Talk Evidence - political persuasion and mortality, too much medicine

Talk Evidence - June 17, 2022 16:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this week's episode, Helen Macdonald is joined by Joseph Ross, US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM. They begin by discussing a review of obesity interventions in primary care, and Joe wonders if GPs are really the best people to tackle the issue. https://www.bmj...

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Talk Evidence - evidence in Roe vs Wade, MI treatment variation, and tribal methodologies

Talk Evidence - May 23, 2022 16:44 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor is back with another episode, and this week is joined by Joe Ross, professor of medicine and public health at Yale, and US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Professor at the Instituto Universitario H...

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Covid vaccine safety, Methenamine hippurate, and intersectionality

Talk Evidence - March 30, 2022 18:08 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, the BMJ’s research integrity editor is joined by Joe Ross, US research editor, and Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJEBM, to talk about all things evidence. Joe gives us an update about covid, including new research on safety of the vaccine As...

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Talk Evidence - isolation periods, openness, and environmental impacts

Talk Evidence - January 28, 2022 17:35 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In the first Talk Evidence of 2022, we'll be asking about the evidence for isolation - now that isolation periods are being reduced, or even stopped in the event of a negative lateral flow test, we'll find out what data that's based on, and if it's appropriate. Vaccinations and treatments for c...

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Talking Christmas Evidence 2021

Talk Evidence - December 22, 2021 09:43 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The BMJ has special criteria for considering Christmas research: first it should make you laugh, and then it should make you think. In this festive episode of the Talk Evidence podcast, our regular panel of Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross are again joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evi...

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Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and overdiagnosis.

Talk Evidence - November 05, 2021 19:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this month’s Talk evidence, we’re going back to our roots and avoiding covid - so sit back and listen to Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross discuss a new nutrition study to prevent fractures in older adults by eating dairy, and a meta-analysis which helps you choose pain relief medications for manag...

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Talk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomes

Talk Evidence - September 29, 2021 17:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This week our regular panelists, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross, are joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine - to take a primary care focussed look at what's been happening in the world of evidence. On this week’s episode. As kids go back to school, winter bugs surge...

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Talk Evidence - real world vaccine data, GP records and CVD

Talk Evidence - September 03, 2021 16:31 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross are back with a wry look at the world of Evidence Based Medicine. They give us a round up of real world data emerging to address various uncertainties about vaccinations against covid Helen has an update on NHS Digital’s project to ext...

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Talk Evidence - Freedom Day

Talk Evidence - July 21, 2021 15:53 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The 19th of July in the UK saw the relaxation of covid rules that have been in place for 18 months - social distancing requirements in venues, mask wearing in public will no longer be legally mandated. There are a lot of questions about what this will mean for the pandemic, and in this episode o...

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Talk Evidence - GP data, excess mortality and FDA approval

Talk Evidence - June 20, 2021 11:07 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, Joe Ross and Duncan Jarvies discuss what's going on in the world of EBM. Firstly, a while ago on the podcast, we concluded that excess mortality would be the best way to measure the impact of the pandemic - and now a new paper looks at different country's ...

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia

Talk Evidence - May 14, 2021 17:15 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and ne...

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Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update

Talk Evidence - April 02, 2021 15:31 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale. This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're ...

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Talk Evidence - Inside the JCVI, and the key to grading evidence

Talk Evidence - March 12, 2021 20:07 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In a slightly different talk evidence, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are bringing you a couple, of in depth interviews, Firstly, Anthony Harnden, GP, academic and member of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation takes us inside their decision making, and explains what evid...

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