BMJ Best Practice Podcast

Migraine

Migraine is very common, affecting an estimated 1.16 billion people worldwide.
It is one of the most disabling neurological disorders. So it is vital that we get diagnosis, management and prevention of this condition right.
To find out how to do this, please listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast with Timothy Collins, Associate Professor of Neurology and Chief of the Headache Division, Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center.
For more on migraine, visit BMJ Best Practice.
Competing interests: TAC provides expert testimony for legal cases regarding headache disorders and treatment (approximately one or two cases per year). TAC is an author of several references cited in the BMJ Best Practice topic on migraine.

Comorbidities

Comorbidities are common and important and have a massive impact on the delivery of care.
The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager is designed to help healthcare professionals deliver better care for patients with multiple illnesses.
To find out more, please do listen to this podcast with Dr Preethi Pirlamarla, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist at the University of Washington.
Competing interests: PP is a member of the BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager panel. 

Shared decision making

BMJ Best Practice is our clinical decision support resource. It is designed to help healthcare professionals make better informed clinical decisions.
 
But such decisions should be made in partnership with patients - they should be shared decisions.
 
To find out more about shared decision making, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Emma Doble, Patient and Public Strategy Editor at BMJ.
 
Competing interests: None 
 

Mumps

Mumps used to be a common childhood disease. Then it became a lot less common because of vaccination. But now unfortunately it is becoming more common again.
So it is vital that we get the diagnosis, management and prevention of this condition right.
To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Dr Kristine Macartney, Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Australia.
For more on mumps, visit BMJ Best Practice.
Competing interests: none 
 

Pertussis

Pertussis or whooping cough is an acute infectious disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. It is highly contagious, highly serious, and highly preventable.
To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and Ashall Professor of Infection and Immunity in Oxford.
Competing interests: AP has been chair of JCVI for the past 12 years.
For more on pertussis, visit BMJ Best Practice.

Social anxiety disorder

Social anxiety disorder is common. The 1-year point prevalence rate is about 7% and the estimated lifetime prevalence about 12%.
And social anxiety disorder can have a real effect on a patient’s life.
To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Professor Craig Sawchuk of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic.
Craig is also the author of our BMJ Best Practice topic on this subject.
For more on social anxiety disorder, visit BMJ Best Practice.
Competing interests: None
 

Measles

Measles is a serious disease. Unfortunately, it is making a comeback.
So we need to know how to diagnose, manage and prevent it.
To find out more about how to do all of this, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Linda Nield, Professor of Medical Education and Pediatrics at West Virginia University School of Medicine.
For more on measles, visit BMJ Best Practice.
Competing interests: None

Asthma in children

Paediatric asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease globally and is a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality.
So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right.
To find out more, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast on asthma in children. It features an interview with Helen Brough, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy and Professor in Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London.
For more on asthma in children, visit BMJ Best Practice.
COI: HB has given speaker talks on food allergy for DBV, Parexel, Stallergenes and Viatris, but these talks were not related to asthma.

Factitious disorders

It is difficult to say how common factitious disorders are. A review of psychiatric consultations in a tertiary care setting found about 1% of referrals received a diagnosis of factitious disorder. Using an entirely different approach, researchers examined specimens submitted by patients as kidney stones and found that 3.5% were obviously non-physiological.
But whatever the prevalence, the consequences can be serious. They include unnecessary diagnostic procedures or interventions and sometimes self-injury.
To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with James Levenson, Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University. And importantly James is author of our BMJ Best Practice topic on factitious disorders. Competing interests: None
For more on factitious disorders, visit BMJ Best Practice.

Down syndrome

Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability, occurring in 1 in about 800 births worldwide. Children and adults with Down syndrome need high quality care from a wide range of different types of healthcare professionals.
To find out more about this condition, listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Kishore Vellody, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Competing interests: None
For more on Down Syndrome, visit BMJ Best Practice.