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Episode 495: Medications in HFpEF: The Fail Trail

In episode 495, Mike and James invite Ricky back again to talk about the options (not a lot) we have for heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. Ricky goes over all the trials and helps put them into context.

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Episode 494: Colchicine for your heart – it may not be just for gout

In episode 494, Mike and James invite Ricky Turgeon to talk about a potential new use for an old drug – colchicine. Ricky explains all the evidence we have for low-dose colchicine in people with a history of cardiovascular disease. We find out that colchicine reduces the risk of a cardiovascular event in a similar magnitude to statins – but will they be used as much as statins.? Find out what we think.

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Cardiovascular prevention trials: Now calling colchicine to the stand

Episode 491: Keeping it Simple for Emergency Room Dyspepsia

In episode 491, Mike and James invite Mike Kolber to talk about Pink Ladies and White Knights. In medical terms we are referring to whether or not it makes sense to add lidocaine and antispasmodics to antacids in patients who present to an emergency room with dyspepsia. Please ignore the parts when both Mikes battle it out for a place at King Arthur’s Round Table and when one of them wears a pink dress for effect.

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Keeping it Simple for Emergency Room Dyspepsia 

Episode 489: Mission Slimpossible – Semaglutide for weight loss

In episode 489, Mike and James invite Adrienne to go over the evidence for weight loss with semaglutide. We find the evidence shows that weight loss is on average roughly 10 kg over the effect of placebo, however this comes at the expense and inconvenience (injection) of the medication and roughly 25% of people (over placebo) will have GI adverse effects.

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Mission Slimpossible: Semaglutide for weight loss

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Episode 488: COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events

In episode 488, Mike and James invite Mike Kolber back again to chat about what the best evidence says around COVID vaccine adverse effects. We discuss all the numbers around common post-dose side effects, anaphylaxis, thrombotic thrombocytopenia and myocarditis.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events

Episode 487: Real World Evidence for COVID-19 Vaccines

In episode 487, Mike and James invite Mike Kolber in to chat about the real-world evidence we have for the COVID vaccine. We find the effectiveness of the COVID vaccines pretty much mirrors what the original clinical trials show. There is also effectiveness evidence the vaccine works for the variants of concern and we even have safety evidence in pregnancy.

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Real World Evidence for COVID-19 Vaccines

Episode 486: Needle in a Pain-Stack – Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain

In episode 486, Mike and James go over the evidence we have for acupuncture in chronic low back pain. We find out that some evidence shows acupuncture will improve chronic low back pain in one in 6 patients. However, the magnitude of the effect seen is importantly less when you look at trials that actually use a sham control or those that are of higher quality or longer duration.

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Needle in a Pain-Stack: Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain

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