October 2020 - Making medicines safer?

A socially distanced podcast with James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) previewing the October issue of DTB. This includes an editorial that discusses the harms caused by medicines and medical devices and highlights concerns over proposals to speed up the UK licensing process for medicines. The editors talk about an article that looks at the influence of pharmaceutical marketing. They also review three new medicines used to prevent migraines. This month's case report involves a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who received latent tuberculosis infection treatment prior to treatment with a biologic agent, and developed shock with resistant hypotension on re-exposure to rifampicin. Read the full issue: https://dtb.bmj.com/content/58/10 Please subscribe to the DTB podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening. Go well and stay well.