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Medicine and Science from The BMJ

by The BMJ

Leading the debate on health to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals.

100 episodes
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1
Is the NHS in danger of making misinformation worse?
48:17 Mar 13, 2026
2
What should GP's make of the new NHS contract?
27:41 Mar 12, 2026
3
Household air pollution, Labour’s lag on child poverty, children forced to cope with conflict
35:03 Mar 6, 2026
4
Measles is surging in 2026. From London to Texas, why are cases hitting a 30-year high?
41:34 Feb 27, 2026
5
Rethinking Cancer Survivorship and the Autism Gender Gap
28:17 Feb 20, 2026
6
"We see coercion the other way... People cannot let go of their dying family" - assisted dying around the world
46:34 Feb 14, 2026
7
How the internet hijacked our health
39:36 Feb 6, 2026
8
What access to GPs tells us about the NHS 10 year plan, and online gambling
37:35 Jan 31, 2026
9
How much should doctors be paid? | BMJ Interviews Economist Richard Murphy
35:44 Jan 23, 2026
10
GLP-1 weight regain and doctors forced out of Gaza
31:42 Jan 12, 2026
11
Could a Ministry for the Future solve the climate crisis? | Kim Stanley Robinson interview
42:44 Jan 9, 2026
12
Christmas 2025 - neologisms, longevity and unexpected research
53:51 Dec 29, 2025
13
The shadow use of Gen AI in the consultation room
37:48 Dec 16, 2025
14
ADHD therapies, and the NHS gig economy
40:40 Dec 5, 2025
15
The Covid Inquiry - special episode
31:04 Dec 4, 2025
16
Special Ep - The Covid Inquiry
31:04 Nov 28, 2025
17
Climate, “car spreading”, and conflict
44:12 Nov 18, 2025
18
Doctors against the far right
31:11 Nov 3, 2025
19
The shaky science of the Q-collar, exercise for osteoarthritis, and patient choice.
36:10 Oct 21, 2025
20
The difficulty of delirium diagnosis, the lack of agency in the 10 year plan, and Gaza wounds
44:14 Oct 7, 2025
21
Doctors still have questions about the UK's assisted dying bill
38:05 Sep 22, 2025
22
Starvation in Gaza is a multi-generational disaster
36:45 Sep 9, 2025
23
CRISPR, stemcell banking, and a football world cup
36:16 Aug 21, 2025
24
The pitfalls of home test kits
27:58 Jul 29, 2025
25
The Future for Physician Associates? | Prof. Gillian Leng
52:53 Jul 24, 2025
26
NHS 10 year plan dissected
42:26 Jul 15, 2025
27
What are doctors demanding? | New BMA Chair, Tom Dolphin
34:35 Jul 11, 2025
28
Time to rethink GP's advice on weightloss, and ticagrelor data doubts
33:38 Jul 1, 2025
29
The plan for NHS league tables is bad, and will lead to unintended consequences
26:09 Jun 16, 2025
30
Wellness industry lies, and preventative AI evaluation
38:53 Jun 2, 2025
31
Conflict in South Asia, and simplifying GRADE.
40:15 May 19, 2025
32
Malaria free China, an academic medicine revolution, and retracted data's impact
36:36 May 7, 2025
33
The problem of prognostication in assisted dying.
30:48 Apr 23, 2025
34
Trump is trying to destroy universities - Ashish Jha, Dean of Public Health at Brown University
50:19 Apr 11, 2025
35
Reducing benefits will not get disabled people back to work, and explaining overdiagnosis
32:35 Apr 9, 2025
36
What does the death of NHS England, and the western alliance, mean for health?
37:48 Mar 26, 2025
37
The data on physician associates in the UK, and speaking up in the NHS
47:02 Mar 12, 2025
38
Phil Banfield on the British Medical Association's plan to support doctors
29:23 Mar 5, 2025
39
Combating disinformation, and time to stop spinal injections for chronic pain
31:10 Feb 26, 2025
40
Why compassion isn't just nice, it's essential
24:20 Feb 21, 2025
41
The industry playbook to combat public health, and FUTURE-AI
34:03 Feb 12, 2025
42
Prehabilitation before surgery, alcohol's impact on clinical care, and life after a cardiac arrest
40:40 Jan 29, 2025
43
Can a deal be done to keep the US in the WHO?
29:31 Jan 24, 2025
44
Conviviality and TV doctors, polar bear tales, and Christmas research
41:06 Dec 30, 2024
45
Big food infiltration of UK Schools, and chocolate consumption and diabetes
32:56 Dec 17, 2024
46
"Incredibly distressing and incredibly dangerous"- David Miliband on healthcare attacks, and staff turnover effect on patient outcomes
33:19 Dec 4, 2024
47
How MSF maintains neutrality in conflict zones
32:14 Nov 20, 2024
48
Conflict zones, women’s health research, and reimagining palliative care
37:41 Nov 2, 2024
49
Climate leadership - knowledge is power
41:08 Oct 19, 2024
50
Getting science into policy for gun control and NHS reform
21:34 Oct 12, 2024
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