Podcasts

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

Prof Paul Griffin

Despite a panoramic study suggesting a lower effect, Lagevrio has a useful impact on hospitalisations, deaths and shorter recovery time. Additionally COVID trials becoming more difficult to run because so many people have either been vaccinated and / or exposed

Dr Jerome Melon

Those experiencing severe symptoms have a range of non-mesh surgical options, and all these options must be offered to the patients who need to intensify their treatment

Prof Nancy Baxter

The elimination of isolation periods and mask mandates, and an update on the vaccination landscape, including recently approved jabs, the bivalent vaccine, and vaccination for children

Prof Creswell Eastman AO

The importance of maintaining thyroid health during pregnancy, when to do thyroid function testing during pregnancy, and the risks of postpartum thyroiditis developing in women known to have thyroid antibodies

Dr Anup Desai

A structured approach to assessing sleep disorders in primary care, and how taking a good sleep history is crucial

Expert/s: Dr Anup Desai
Prof Bruce Robinson

How do you manage a single or multiple hot or cold nodules in the thyroid, which test should you do and when and when to refer and to whom?

Dr Robert Lahoud

The difference between anovulation and amenorrhoea, the causes of primary amenorrhoea and when to investigate, and the physiology of secondary amenorrhoea

Dr Alexander Padiglione

Navigating interactions... it’s easier than it first looks, and how antivirals are an important part of the management strategy to reduce the chances of severe illness and hospital admissions

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?