Podcasts

Earning CPD by listening to Healthed podcasts is simple. Each episode is eligible for Educational Activities CPD. 

Joyce McSwan

What are yellow flags for back pain?, knowing these and practising mindful therapeutics can help mitigate the risk of progression of acute pain to chronic pain, and how chronic pain is a disease in its own right

Expert/s: Joyce McSwan
Dr Pamela Douglas

Establishing breastfeeding from the moment the baby is born to avoid future lactation problems, how to provide the best support for breastfeeding women in the time of COVID, telehealth and virtual support groups and the impact of tongue-tie in babies on breastfeeding

Dr Sheila Sivam

Narcolepsy is severely disruptive. It often presents with several co-morbid conditions that may be mistaken for the major condition, and half the patients with narcolepsy are undiagnosed

Prof Creswell Eastman AO

How can GP’s better support & manage their thyroid patients? How to achieve the optimal dose, overcoming barriers to patient compliance, and how often should we do blood tests/monitoring?

Dr Yu Hwee Tan

The incidence of OAB is greater in women and as one ages - It’s common-affecting 20-30% of women. Dr Yu Hwee discusses assessment and management

Expert/s: Dr Yu Hwee Tan
A/Prof Nigel Crawford

The Omicron booster, latest ATAGI decisions including the Moderna baby dose and Novavax for teens. Plus the new variant vaccines, should we mix and match boosters?

A/Prof Dion Forstner & Dr Farshad Kasraei

In this Healthed lecture, A/Prof Dion Forstner & Dr Farshad Kasraei explain that radiation therapy is the most effective non-invasive option for keratinocyte cancer lesions, with 5-year control rates approaching surgery. It also complements surgery well in the adjuvant setting for high-risk disease. Advances in technology and an understanding of radiobiological processes has allowed it to be applied to a wider variety of disease presentations, whilst mitigating acute and chronic side effects.

A/Prof Roderick Clifton-Bligh

Useful management tips for Grave’s disease (GD) and Hashimotos’ thyroiditis (HT), how to manage a pregnant woman with GD or Hypothyroidism. When does a patient with HT require lifelong thyroxine replacement therapy

Prof Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich

The availability of SABAs over-the-counter means that GPs and local pharmacists need to communicate more, and an overview of current management

Dr Deb Mills

How getting bitten by a mammal whilst on holidays will not only ruin the holiday, but can be fatal if the right post exposure care is delayed or not given correctly

Expert/s: Dr Deb Mills
Dr Michael Eller

A majority of patients with headaches that don't go away have migraines - Practical advice on assessment & management

A/Prof Sanjaya Senanayake

Monkeypox, influenza, polio, tomato flu and other things that are keeping public health up at night, latest COVID developments, ATAGI announcements.