Talk Evidence covid-19 update - How well have physical distancing measures worked?

Talk Evidence - Radiation, fertility, and pneumonia: Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan are back again talking about what's happened in the world of evidence this month. They start by talking about how difficult a task it is to find evidence that's definitely practice changing, what GPs can learn from ... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Remdesivir, care homes, and death data: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're goi... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - cancer causing food, prostate cancer and disease definitions: Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan are back again talking about what's happened in the world of evidence this month. (1.05) Carl rants about bacon causing cancer (7.10) Helen talks about prostate cancer, and we hear from the author of the research p... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - smoking, gloves and transparency: This month we have some more feedback from our listeners (2.20) Carl says it's time to start smoking cessation (or stop the reduction in funding for smoking reduction) (11.40) and marvels at how pretty Richard Doll's seminal smoking paper is. It's ... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - Devices and facebook vaccines: In the second of our EBM round-ups, Carl Heneghan, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Deborah Cohen, investigative journalist and scourge of device manufacturers. We're giving our verdict on the sensitivity and specificity of ketone ... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - hydroxy/chloroquinine, prognostic models and facemaskss: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're go... by Talk Evidence

37 min listen

Talk Evidence - Building an evidence base for covid-19: We're taking a break from the usual Talk Evidence to focus on the new corona virus that has emerged in China. With a brand new disease, we have to build our evidence base from scratch - basic virology, epidemiology, pathogenicity, transmissibility, ... by Talk Evidence

45 min listen

Talk Evidence - Z drugs, subclinical hypothyroidism and Drazen’s dozen: This week on the podcast, (2.02) a listener asks, when we suggest something to stop, should we suggest an alternative instead? (8.24) Helen tells us to stop putting people on treatment for subclinical hypothyroidism, but what does that mean for peop... by Talk Evidence

45 min listen

Talk Evidence - Recurrent VTE, CRP testing for COPD, CMO report, and a consultation: Helen talks about new research on prevention of recurrent VTE - and Carl things the evidence goes further, and we can extend prophylaxis for a year. 13.00 - CRP testing for antibiotic prescription in COPD exacerbations, should we start doing it in ... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - Shoulders, statins and doctors messes: Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan are back again talking about what's happened in the world of evidence this month. They start by talking about shoulders - what does the evidence say about treating subacromial pain, and why the potential for a subgr... by Talk Evidence

42 min listen

Talk evidence covid-19 update - Living meta-analysis and covid uncertainty: 1.00) Carl has been looking at PCR testing, and explains why it picks up both viable SARS-cov-2, but also fragments of it’s RNA - leading to potential over diagnosis. (8.50 ) What did the Living systematic review and accompanying guidelines say abo... by Talk Evidence

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Talk evidence covid-19 update - answering questions with big data: Big data is being crunched to help us tackle some of the enormous amount of uncertainty about covid-19, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. In these podcasts, we're going to try to get away from the... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - Tramadol, medical harm, and alexa: Welcome back to Talk Evidence - where Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan take you through what's happening in the world of Evidence. This month we'll be discussing tramadol being prescripted postoperatively, and a new EBM verdict says that should c... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - health checks, abx courses and p-values: Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan are back again talking about what's happened in the world of evidence this month. (1.20) Carl grinds his gears over general health checks, with an update in the Cochrane Library. (9.15) Helen is surprised by new re... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - covid ethics, waste and a minimum RCT size: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're goi... by Talk Evidence

47 min listen

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Confused symptoms, fatality rate uncertainty, Iceland’s testing: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're ... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - testing under the microscope and opioid prescription: This edition of talk evidence was recorded before the big increase in covid-19 infections in the UK, and then delayed by some self isolation. We'll be back with more evidence on the pandemic very soon. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Mac... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - aggravating acronyms, a time to prescribe, and screening (again): Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - pneumonia, guidelines, preprints and testing: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're goi... by Talk Evidence

43 min listen

Talk Xmas Evidence: Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University’s CEBM ... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence - Sepsis, talc and blindsided by blinding: Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University’s CEBM a... by Talk Evidence

41 min listen

Talk Evidence - eating less, drinking less, drug approval data: Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).... by Talk Evidence

37 min listen

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - How will we know if a vaccine works?: Vaccines have been in the news this week - but when you dig into the stories, it turns out that the hype is about phase 1 trials. We're a long way from being sure any of the 150 possible vaccines being developed actually work. In this talk evidence... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - lack of testing transparency, how to give good debate: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're goin... by Talk Evidence

44 min listen

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - How well have physical distancing measures worked?: Fresh outbreaks of covid in Europe and a wave of infections in the United States have been in the news this week, highlighting the renewed need for social distancing – but to what extent? In this edition, we explore the real-world evidence for physi... by Talk Evidence

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Talk Evidence covid-19 update - dexamethosone, testing, rehabilitation after covid.: This week we're looking beyond the press release for dexamethasone, the long awaited review of antibody testing, and how well people are recovering after surviving acute covid-19. (2.36) The preprint for dexamethasone is finally out - considerably ... by Talk Evidence

39 min listen

Talk Evidence - real world vaccine data, GP records and CVD: 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 Hele... by Talk Evidence

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Talk evidence covid-19 update - natural history of covid, include patients in guidelines: For the next few months Talk Evidence is going to focus on the new corona virus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. We're goin... by Talk Evidence

33 min listen

Talk evidence covid-19 update - second wave and care home failings: In this episode of Talk Evidence, we'll be finding out if second waves are inevitable (or even a thing), how the UK's failure to protect it's care homes is symbolic of a neglected part of public life, and why those papers on hydroxychloroquine were r... by Talk Evidence

45 min listen

Talk evidence covid-19 update - remdesivir redux, the overwhelming volume of research: That remdesivir study has finally been published - what does it say and is it as independant as claimed. Also, as the world's focus turned to covid, so have researchers - and they've produced over 15000 papers. How can we sift through the flood of re... by Talk Evidence

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