All Episodes
DTB Podcast — 189 episodes · page 1 of 2
When doctor becomes patient: levelling up the medical hierarchy
When medicines cause harm: learning from the DES disaster
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
May 2022 - an apology, international drug bulletins, mirtazapine and oral antivirals for covid-19
DTB turns 60! Plus: conflicts of interest, harms from nitrofurantoin and hypertension in pregnancy
March 2022 - Paracetamol and blood pressure, greener inhalers, harms from medicines and naldemedine
Overprescribing, overuse of short-acting beta agonists, inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy
January 2022 - Molnupiravir, potentially harmful prescribing and antidepressant withdrawal reactions
Dec 2021 - Overprescribing, BP monitor accuracy, topical steroids, and bremelanotide and flibanserin
November 2021 - Drugs to avoid, penicillin allergy and a new drug for osteoporosis
October 2021 - Desogestrel POM to P, PCI in stable IHD, and migraine in pregnancy
September 2021: Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s, antibiotics, shared-decision making, and dental health
August 2021. Community pharmacy discharge medicines service: a step towards improved patient safety?
July 2021 - Chloramphenicol eye drops, boron, infants and fertility
June 2021 - COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy
May 2021 - Time for transparency
April 2021 - Asthma, a disease of variability
March 2021 - Opioid safety: striking the right balance
February 2021 - Why vaccines matter
January 2021 - COVID-19 vaccination: we need more than the ‘mum test’
COVID-19 vaccines - getting the information right
December 2020 - Hype and hope of bedtime dosing of antihypertensives
November 2020 - Chronic pain (analgesia armageddon)
October 2020 - Making medicines safer?
September 2020 - Dilemmas in commissioning biological therapies
August 2020 - Virtual revolution
Low-dose aspirin for prevention of pre-eclampsia: when over the counter just isn’t
Deprescribing in the time of COVID-19
Improving consultations with children and adolescents, plus treating Covid-19 with ibuprofen
April 2020 - Lung volume in COPD: when less is more
March 2020 - Dapagliflozin for type 1 diabetes: ensuring benefits outweigh the risks
February 2020 - Registering our interest
Melatonin for jet lag
January 2020 - Polypharmacy and deprescribing: just ask the patient
December 2019 - Has the polypill finally proven its worth?
November 2019 - Meeting QOF hypertension targets but failing the patient
October 2019 -Medicines optimisation: time to review fibrates?
September 2019 - Social prescribing: right idea, wrong name?
August 2019: Time to speed up the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia
July 2019: It is hard work being a patient
June 2019: If the drugs don’t work
May 2019: The new GP contract - an opportunity for drugs and therapeutics
April 2019: DOAC dosing in renal impairment
March 2019: A new direction for diabetes
February 2019: The past, present and future of inhaled corticosteroids for COPD
January 2019: Challenging the supremacy of intravenous antibiotics
December 2018: Information on medicines for patients
November 2018: Travelling with medicines
October 2018: atrial fibrillation, opioids for chronic pain and over-the-counter sildenafil
Here’s your New DTB!
August 2018: what’s your position on giving birth?