DTB Podcast
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DTB Podcast is a health podcast hosted by BMJ Group. It has 188 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.
The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) Podcast is your source for practical, independent, and evidence-based information on drugs, medication, and prescribing. Join the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of DTB each month as they discuss the key highlights of the latest issue.DTB - dtb.bmj.com - is published by BMJ Group, and offers rigorous, independent evaluations and practical advice on treatments and disease management for doctors, pharmacists, and healthcare professionals. Subscribe to the DTB Podcast and get the latest drug and therapeutic insights.* 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, patient care or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that pr
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Understanding clinical significance, and the new epinephrine nasal spray
GLP-1 drugs, reducing sedative use, and a thank you
Disinformation and misinformation, AI in primary care and antidepressant tapering
Prevention in primary care, elinzanetant for menopause, and a farewell to David.
Medicines - but at what cost, direct penicillin allergy challenge, and prescribing mistakes
Orphan drugs, allopurinol and CVD, mavacamten for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Antibiotic susceptibility reports, deprescribing, and heart failure drugs
AI and DTB, drug safety, tirzepatide, and lecanemab for Alzheimer's disease
National asthma guidelines, bisoprolol for COPD and abaloparatide for osteoporosis
Identifying VTE in early pregnancy, gabapentinoids and COPD, managing ADHD
The polypill revisited, cytisinicline for vaping cessation and a new co-host
Misuse of female empowerment to sell tests and treatments, triptan safety, use of ACEI or AIIRA in CKD
Paying the price, liver problems with fezolinetant, systemic anticancer treatments
Prioritising shared decision making, remission from type 2 diabetes, gefapixant for cough
PILs: all harms and no benefits, Irish College of GPs end pharma funding, Ryeqo for fibroids
When it comes to drugs, sex matters; menopausal HT and dementia; daridorexant for sleep
Supporting obesity treatment, major bleeds with anticoagulants and SSRIs, equity in COPD care
(Un)common sense in oncology, DOACs in device-detected AF, and hypertension in the elderly
Medicines optimisation measures, warfarin-tramadol interaction and icosapent ethyl
Psychotropic medicines in children, warfarin vs DOAC in old age, and fezolinetant in menopause
Propranolol and its risk in overdose and managing COPD exacerbations
Diagnostic imaging and shielding, sinusitis, antibiotics and coloured snot, ritlecitinib
Medicines and global warming, donanemab for AD, and cytisine for smoking cessation
Drug safety alerts, valproate safety (again) and a new contraceptive POP
Protecting consumers, tramadol-warfarin interaction and very low calorie diets
ADHD medicines shortages, fluoroquinolone safety, drugs not to prescribe
Continuity of care, statins and myasthenia gravis, and acne
Rationalising blood tests, bempedoic acid and CV outcomes and semaglutide for obesity
BNF moving with the times; preventable deaths; plus an intro to pharmacogenetics
Taxing ill health, and what evidence for intravenous vitamins?
NICE and redacted data, spironolactone for acne, and drugs with anticholinergic activity
FeNO and asthma, low-dose aspirin and H pylori eradication, plus finerenone
July 2023: Whither evidence, COI in guidelines, isotretinoin safety, SGLT2 inhibitors and Utrogestan shortage
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - Barbara Mintzes
Aciclovir PEP after VZ exposure in pregnancy, falls and fractures with aspirin, an inclisiran rant
May 2023 - another DTB celebration (or two), OACs and NSAIDs, and siRNA-based therapeutics
When should you take antihypertensive medication. Prescribing for skin conditions in pregnancy
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - Joanna Girling
Penicillin allergy, lecanemab and Alzeimer’s disease, a new oral contraceptive and statins for all
Swapping to edoxaban, DOACs in renal impairment, inflammatory rheumatic diseases in pregnancy
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - John Dowden
Happy New Year, sad news from Australia, toxocarosis in humans and yet more on valproate safety
December 2022 - MHT and ’brain fog’, risks from sodium-containing paracetamol and 2022 revisited
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - Jo Congleton
November 2022 - FMT, methotrexate and COVID vaccine boosters, and Palforzia for peanut allergy
October 2022 - two freebies, advertising woes, paracetamol (again) and standing up to Pharma
September 2022 - healthcare costs, gout, metformin and B12, more on COI and carbetocin
August 2022 - COI, STOMP/STAMP, BP deprescribing, amiodarone and bempedoic acid
July 2022 - an e-letter, estradiol, APPGs, inclisiran and nitrofurantoin
June 2022 - a complaint, primary care spirometry, paracetamol and frailty, serotonin syndrome
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