Informed Health Choices Podcasts
Each episode includes a short story with an example of a treatment claim and a simple explanation of a Key Concept used to assess that claim
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Informed Health Choices Primary School Resources
A textbook and a teachers’ guide for 10 to 12-year-olds. The textbook includes a comic, exercises and classroom activities.
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Know Your Chances
This book has been shown in two randomized trials to improve peoples' understanding of risk in the context of health care choices.
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DRUG TOO
James McCormick with another parody/spoof of the Cee Lo Green song ‘Forget You’ to prompt scepticism about many drug treatments.
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Tom Hanks and Type 2 Diabetes
A 50-minute illustrated talk by James McCormack prompted by Tom Hanks’ announcement that he had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
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Choosing Wisely
James McCormack using song and dance to warn about the negative effects of overtreatment.
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‘Tricks to help you get the result you want from your study (S4BE)
Inspired by a chapter in Ben Goldacre’s ‘Bad Science’, medical student Sam Marks shows you how to fiddle research results.
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It’s just a phase
A resource explaining the differences between different trial phases.
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How do you regulate Wu?
Ben Goldacre finds that students of Chinese medicine are taught (on a science degree) that the spleen is “the root of post-heaven essence”.
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Science is about embracing your knockers
Ben Goldacre: “I don’t trust claims without evidence, especially not unlikely ones about a magic cream that makes your breasts expand.”
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Balancing Benefits and harms
A blog explaining what is meant by ‘benefits’ and ‘harms’ in the context of healthcare interventions, and the importance of balancing them.
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Why treatment comparisons must be fair
Fair treatment comparisons avoid biases and reduce the effects of the play of chance.
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Reducing biases in judging unanticipated effects of treatments
As with anticipated effects of treatments, biases and the play of chance must be reduced in assessing suspected unanticipated effects.
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Why treatment uncertainties should be addressed
Ignoring uncertainties about the effects of treatments has led to avoidable suffering and deaths.
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Interactive PowerPoint Presentation about Clinical Trials
An interactive Powerpoint presentation for people thinking about participating in a clinical trial or interested in learning about them.
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Annals Graphic Medicine: How screening is portrayed in the media
A cartoon series addressing the theme "Earlier is not necessarily better".
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Twilling Sisters
New treatments as well as old treatments can have unwanted effects.
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Smart Health Choices: making sense of health advice
The Smart Health Choices e-book explains how to make informed health decisions.
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Evidence Based Medicine Matters: Examples of where EBM has benefitted patients
Booklet containing 15 examples submitted by Royal Colleges where Evidence-Based Medicine has benefited clinical practice.
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Manipulating doctors: testimony from an ex-drug rep
In this 10-min video, Gwen Olsen, a former pharmaceutical sales representative, talks about manipulating doctors to sell more drugs.
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On being sucked into a maelstrom
In 2006, a patient in the UK, who happened to be medically trained, found herself swept along by the Herceptin […]
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A tragic epidemic of blindness in babies
‘In the period immediately after World War II, many new treatments were introduced to improve the outlook for prematurely-born babies. […]
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درمان جدید برای لکههای مادرزادی قرمزرنگ (strawberry birthmark)
گاهی اوقات درمانهایی که تأثیرات چشمگیری دارند، بهصورت تصادفی کشف میشوند؛ برای نمونه میتوان به بیماری همانژیوم (haemangioma) اشاره کرد […]
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غربالگری سرطان ریه: زود، اما نه بهاندازه کافی زود؟
غربالگری ممکن است منجر به تشخیص سریعتر بیماری شود، اما این زمان همیشه بهاندازهای نیست که تفاوتی ایجاد کند (تصویر […]
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Could checking the evidence first have prevented a death?
‘In a tragic situation that could have been averted, Ellen Roche, a healthy, 24-year-old volunteer in an asthma study at […]
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The Yellow Card Scheme
The Yellow Card Scheme was launched in Britain in 1964 after the thalidomide tragedy highlighted the importance of following up […]
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حدس و گمان و بررسی این دو عامل در عوارض جانبی پیشبینینشدهٔ درمانها
حدس و گمان و بررسی این دو عامل در عوارض جانبی پیشبینینشدهٔ درمانها در تأثیرات پیشبینینشدهٔ درمانها، چه بد و […]
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درمانهایی با اثرات چشمگیر
گاهی بیماران واکنشهایی به درمانها نشان میدهند که تفاوت چشمگیری با تجارب گذشته و سیر طبیعی بیماری آنها دارد؛ بهنحوی […]
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ضرورت فراتررفتن از تأثیرات
آیا اعتقاد بیماران به اینکه عاملی میتواند به آنها کمک کند کافی نیست؟ چرا باید وقت خود را صرف پژوهش […]
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Facing up to uncertainties: a matter of life and death
‘Failure to face up to uncertainties about the effects of treatments can result in avoidable suffering and death on a […]
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زمانی که پزشکان مخالف هستند
در این زیرفصل: مقدمه (همین صفحه) استفاده از کافئین برای مشکلات تنفسی در نوزادان نارس استفاده از آنتیبیوتیکها در زایمان […]
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تأثیرات درمانی متوسط؛ معمولی و نهچندان آشکار
بیشتر درمانها تأثیرات شگرفی ندارند و لازم است برای ارزیابی آنها آزمایشهایی بیطرفانه انجام شود. گاهی اوقات ممکن است یک […]
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The classical (Halstead) radical mastectomy
The radical mastectomy, devised in the late 19th century by William Halsted, was the most commonly performed operation for breast […]
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Drastic treatment is not always the best
‘It is very easy for those of us treating cancer to imagine that better results are due to a more […]
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درمانهای تهاجمی برای سرطان پستان
درمانهایی که برای سرطان پستان – بیشتر در اخبار – حمایت میشوند، درسهای بسیار ارزشمندی را دربارهٔ خطرات این فرضیه […]
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No wonder she was confused
In January 2004, a hysterectomy patient wrote this letter to The Lancet: ‘In 1986 I had a hysterectomy because of […]
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کاربرد روغن گل مغربی (evening primrose oil) برای اگزما
حتی اگر درمانهایی که بهاندازهٔ کافی ارزیابی نشدهاند مضر یا کشنده نباشند، پول و سرمایه را هدر میدهند. اگزما نوعی […]
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درمان جایگزینی هورمون (HRT)
در خانمهایی که در دوران یائسگی به سر میبرند، درمان جایگزینی هورمون (Hormone Replacement Therapy یا بهاختصار HRT) در کاهش […]
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دی اتیل استیل بسترول (Diethylstilbestrol)
زمانی پزشکان مطمئن نبودند که آیا میتوان بهواسطهٔ یک استروژن سنتتیک (صناعی) به نام دی اتیل استیل بسترول (یا بهاختصار […]
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دریچههای مکانیکی قلب
داروها تنها درمانهایی نیستند که میتوانند تأثیرات مضر ناخواستهای داشته باشند، درمانهای غیر دارویی نیز ممکن است موجب وقوع خطرات […]
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آواندیا (Avandia)
در سال ۲۰۱۰ داروی دیگری به نام رزیگلیتازون (rosiglitazone) که با نام تجاری Avandia شناختهشدهتر است، بهدلیل عوارض جانبی قلبی […]
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وایاکس
گرچه قوانین آزمودن داروها بهطور چشمگیری سختگیرانهتر شده، حتی با بهترین روشها برای آزمودن داروها هم ممکن است هیچ تضمین […]
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تالیدومید (Thalidomide)
تالیدومید نمونهای بسیار دلسردکننده از یک درمان جدید پزشکی است که آثار مخرب آن بیشتر از فوایدش است. [1]. این […]
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