BMJ Best Practice Podcast

Dr Mary-Margaret Fill currently works as a Medical Epidemiologist in Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness at the Tennessee Department of Health. To learn more about Avian Influenza, visit BMJ Best Practice. http://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/455 _ The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical adv...

Christopher Paddock, Medical Officer and pathologist in the Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch in CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, gives a clinical guide to recognising and managing typhus group rickettsiae. For more on typhus group rickettsiae, take a look at Best Practice: http://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/1604 _ The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of thi...

A clinical guide to recognising and managing Tularaemia. Dr Isaac Bogoch is a clinical researcher, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Canada. To learn more about Tularaemia Infection, visit BMJ Learning https://goo.gl/7kRgeu And BMJ Best Practice bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/916 _ The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitut...

Dr. Matthieu Million is a Senior Lecturer and Hospital Practitioner at the Infectious Diseases Unit, Centre Expert du Microbiote Humain, in Marseille, France. To learn more about Coxiella Burnetii Infection, visit BMJ Best Practice (http://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/1139) and BMJ Learning (http://learning.bmj.com) _ The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of thi...

Hypertension: everything you need to know about the new 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines This podcast covers the implications of the new 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines for clinicians and their patients, including changes to the definition of hypertension, self monitoring, management and new recommendations in relation to existing guidelines. Dr Jeffrey Brettler is a general internist who practices at the Kaiser P...

Plague - a guide to diagnosing and managing Yersinia Dr. Amesh Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. He also serves on the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV Commission. He is board certified in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine. To learn more about Yersinia Infection, visit BMJ Best Practice (http://bestpr...

Botulism: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral - with Dr Claudia Kraft Dr Claudia Kraft, MD, CCFP (EM), MSc, is an emergency physician, formerly a full-service family physician. She has practiced in the Canadian Arctic/subarctic for her entire medical career, first in Iqaluit, Nunavut and now in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (where she lives with her partner Steve, their son Henry,...

BMJ Clinical Director Dr Kieran Walsh speaks with Dr Tom Fletcher (http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-tom-fletcher) about Ebola infection. Dr Tom Fletcher is a Wellcome Trust/Ministry of Defence Research Training Fellow and an Infectious Diseases Speciality Registrar in Liverpool. He is a physician in the Defence Medical Services and his research is on investigating the pathogenesis of Crimea...

Following acute exposure to the hepatitis C virus, most people develop chronic infection that increases the risk for long-term hepatic complications. Current treatment with oral direct-acting agents aims to eradicate the virus. Jawad Ahmad, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Liver Diseases at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, discusses hepatitis C infection with BMJ Knowledge Centre's U....

Most people with chronic hepatitis B infection are asymptomatic, but long-term complications may include cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver failure. Jawad Ahmad, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Liver Diseases at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, discusses hepatitis B virus infection with BMJ Knowledge Centre's U.S. Clinical Lead Sheila Feit, including how to approach diagno...

A BMJ Clinical Evidence systematic overview looks at the evidence for medical and surgical treatments of trigeminal neuralgia, and the uncertainties that exist due to gaps in the evidence. This has been summarised in The BMJ. The authors of the overview and bmj.comsummary, Prof. Joanna Zakrzewska from the Facial Pain Unit at the Eastman Dental Hospital, London, and Mark Linskey, Professor of Neuro...