BMJ Best Practice Podcast

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The BMJ Best Practice podcast publishes interviews with clinical experts, aimed at healthcare professionals and students with an interest in keeping up to date with the latest scientific developments, evidence-based medicine and guidelines.

BMJ Best Practice is ranked one of the best clinical decision support tools for health professionals worldwide.* Structured around the clinical workflow and updated daily, BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

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*Kwag KH, González-Lorenzo M, Banzi R, Bonovas S, Moja L. Providing Doctors With High-Quality Information: An Updated Evaluation of Web-Based Point-of-Care Information Summaries

The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement...

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#62
Thursday · 20 min
Tremor
Tremor is an involuntary oscillatory and rhythmic movement of a body part. It commonly affects the upper extremities but can also affect the head, chin, voice, or legs. Tremor may impair activities of daily living or occupation, and may lead to embarrassment and social withdrawal. To find out how to diagnose and manage patients, please do listen to this podcast with Camilla Kilbane, who is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University. COI: CK has served as a consultant for Medtronic, including participation on the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the ADAPT-PD trial. CK has participated in the speakers bureau for Teva Pharmaceuticals and has served as an expert witness in one legal case.
#60
August 14 · 20 min
Hypertension
Hypertension is a common disorder that affects a large proportion of the community. It is usually asymptomatic and is detected on routine examination or after the occurrence of a complication such as heart attack or stroke. To find out how to diagnose and manage patients, please do listen to this podcast with Greg Lip, Price-Evans Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Liverpool. For more on hypertension, visit BMJ Best Practice. COI: GL is a consultant and speaker for BMS/Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Anthos, and Huawei. No fees are received personally.
#58
July 13 · 30 min
Smart learning: Scaling flexible workforce management, clinical decision support, audio learning, and healthtech
This podcast is an interview with Dr Jing Ouyang. He is Co-Founder of Patchwork Health, Doctor, Podcaster and Healthtech Advisor. The interview covers a range of topics including: • Workforce management and flexible careers and how clinical decision support can help • How best to learn from podcasts and • Healthtech COI: JO is co-founder of and retains shares in Patchwork Health, where he previously served as COO and CGO. BMJ is an investor in Patchwork Health. JO also hosts the "Out of Programme" podcast. All views expressed are his own.
#59
June 29 · 16 min
Drowning
According to the WHO, over 200,000 people die from drowning globally every year. So it is vital that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. To find out how to prevent and manage drowning, please do have a listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Dr David Szpilman, Medical Director of the Brazilian Lifesaving Society and Co-founder of the International Drowning Researcher's Alliance. For more on drowning, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: DS is an author of references cited in the BMJ Best Practice topic.
#57
June 2 · 20 min
Traveller's diarrhoea
Traveller's diarrhoea is common. But it is difficult to put a percentage on it as a lot depends on lots of different factors. However, we do know that traveller's diarrhoea can be serious and can cause complications - from lactose intolerance to irritable bowl syndrome. To find out more, please have a listen to this podcast with Daniel Leung, Professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr Thomas D. Rees and Natalie B. Rees Presidential Endowed Chair in Global Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine. For more on traveller's diarrhoea, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: DTL receives authorship royalties from UpToDate, Inc, for a chapter on travel medicine; is an author of upcoming chapters on traveller's diarrhoea for the US CDC Yellow Book; is the past president of the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health - Clinical Group within the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; and is an author of some of the references cited in this topic.
#56
May 19 · 18 min
Shared decision-making in difficult circumstances
BMJ Best Practice is our clinical decision support resource. It is designed to help healthcare professionals make better decisions in partnership with their patients. To find out more about shared decision making in a range of difficult circumstances, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Amber Washington, Patient Advisory Coordinator, Tampa General Hospital. View BMJ Best Practice's patient information here. Competing interests: None
#55
May 6 · 25 min
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is common and important. So it is vital that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Adrian Preda, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. For more on bipolar disorder, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: AP has been compensated as an expert consultant by GLG, Atheneum, Guidepoint, and as the Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatric News.
#54
March 30 · 27 min
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism is common and important. So it is vital that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Scott Woller, Director of the Thrombosis Clinic, Intermountain Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah. For more on pulmonary embolism, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: SCW declares that he is expecting to receive funding of an investigator initiated grant from Janssen Pharmaceuticals to Intermountain Health - with no direct compensation to himself.
#53
March 2 · 22 min
Migraine
Migraine is very common, affecting an estimated 1.16 billion people worldwide. It is one of the most disabling neurological disorders. So it is vital that we get diagnosis, management and prevention of this condition right. To find out how to do this, please listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast with Timothy Collins, Associate Professor of Neurology and Chief of the Headache Division, Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center. For more on migraine, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: TAC provides expert testimony for legal cases regarding headache disorders and treatment (approximately one or two cases per year). TAC is an author of several references cited in the BMJ Best Practice topic on migraine.
#52
February 2 · 23 min
Comorbidities
Comorbidities are common and important and have a massive impact on the delivery of care. The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager is designed to help healthcare professionals deliver better care for patients with multiple illnesses. To find out more, please do listen to this podcast with Dr Preethi Pirlamarla, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist at the University of Washington. Competing interests: PP is a member of the BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager panel.
#51
Dec 22, 2025 · 25 min
Shared decision making
BMJ Best Practice is our clinical decision support resource. It is designed to help healthcare professionals make better informed clinical decisions. But such decisions should be made in partnership with patients - they should be shared decisions. To find out more about shared decision making, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Emma Doble, Patient and Public Strategy Editor at BMJ. Competing interests: None
#50
Nov 6, 2025 · 24 min
Mumps
Mumps used to be a common childhood disease. Then it became a lot less common because of vaccination. But now unfortunately it is becoming more common again. So it is vital that we get the diagnosis, management and prevention of this condition right. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Dr Kristine Macartney, Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Australia. For more on mumps, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: none
#49
Oct 16, 2025 · 24 min
Pertussis
Pertussis or whooping cough is an acute infectious disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. It is highly contagious, highly serious, and highly preventable. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and Ashall Professor of Infection and Immunity in Oxford. Competing interests: AP has been chair of JCVI for the past 12 years. For more on pertussis, visit BMJ Best Practice.
#48
Sep 25, 2025 · 24 min
Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder is common. The 1-year point prevalence rate is about 7% and the estimated lifetime prevalence about 12%. And social anxiety disorder can have a real effect on a patient’s life. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Professor Craig Sawchuk of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic. Craig is also the author of our BMJ Best Practice topic on this subject. For more on social anxiety disorder, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: None
#47
Sep 8, 2025 · 18 min
Measles
Measles is a serious disease. Unfortunately, it is making a comeback. So we need to know how to diagnose, manage and prevent it. To find out more about how to do all of this, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Linda Nield, Professor of Medical Education and Pediatrics at West Virginia University School of Medicine. For more on measles, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: None
#46
Aug 21, 2025 · 24 min
Asthma in children
Paediatric asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease globally and is a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. To find out more, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast on asthma in children. It features an interview with Helen Brough, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy and Professor in Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London. For more on asthma in children, visit BMJ Best Practice. COI: HB has given speaker talks on food allergy for DBV, Parexel, Stallergenes and Viatris, but these talks were not related to asthma.
#45
Jul 22, 2025 · 21 min
Factitious disorders
It is difficult to say how common factitious disorders are. A review of psychiatric consultations in a tertiary care setting found about 1% of referrals received a diagnosis of factitious disorder. Using an entirely different approach, researchers examined specimens submitted by patients as kidney stones and found that 3.5% were obviously non-physiological. But whatever the prevalence, the consequences can be serious. They include unnecessary diagnostic procedures or interventions and sometimes self-injury. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with James Levenson, Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University. And importantly James is author of our BMJ Best Practice topic on factitious disorders. Competing interests: None For more on factitious disorders, visit BMJ Best Practice.
#44
Jun 24, 2025 · 27 min
Down syndrome
Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability, occurring in 1 in about 800 births worldwide. Children and adults with Down syndrome need high quality care from a wide range of different types of healthcare professionals. To find out more about this condition, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Kishore Vellody, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Competing interests: None For more on Down Syndrome, visit BMJ Best Practice.
#43
May 29, 2025 · 28 min
Generalised seizures in adults
In 2016, the estimated number of people globally with active epilepsy was 45.9 million. For the US in 2015, this figure was around 3.4 million. So epilepsy is common and generalised seizures are a common type of epilepsy. And the consequences can be serious - from medication side effects to status to sudden unexpected death. To find out more about this problem and what we can do about it, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Daniel Winkel, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. For more on generalised seizures, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: DW receives consulting fees from NextSense, Inc.
#41
May 5, 2025 · 19 min
Measles, mumps and rubella vaccination
Measles, mumps and rubella are all serious illnesses. They are also all preventable. Vaccination is safe and effective. But take up of the vaccine is not what it should be. To find out more about this problem and what we can do about it, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Helen Bedford, Professor of Children's Health at the UCL Institute of Child Health. For more on these infections, visit BMJ Best Practice. Competing interests: None

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