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NB Hot Topics Podcast · Jul 4, 2025 · 23 min

S6 E12: Anti-Ds for Insomnia; SSRIs & Hypotension; Cancer Cures

Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. While everyone tries to unpick the new NHS 10-year plan, we focus on the here and now with three new pieces of research. We kick off with two gems in the BJGP - first, examining whether anti-depressants actually help with insomnia, and second, whether anti-depressants cause postural hypotension in older people, and which may be the worst. Finally, we look at a good news story, with data publishing on a new treatment for cancers linked to mismatch repair genes. References BJGP Insomnia paper BJGP Anti-Ds and postural hypotension paper NEJM dMMR gene cancer therapy www.nbmedical.com/podcast

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Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. While everyone tries to unpick the new NHS 10-year plan, we focus on the here and now with three new pieces of research.

We kick off with two gems in the BJGP - first, examining whether anti-depressants actually help with insomnia, and second, whether anti-depressants cause postural hypotension in older people, and which may be the worst. Finally, we look at a good news story, with data publishing on a new treatment for cancers linked to mismatch repair genes.

References

BJGP Insomnia paper

BJGP Anti-Ds and postural hypotension paper

NEJM dMMR gene cancer therapy 

www.nbmedical.com/podcast

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