Medical Matters is a weekly podcast containing the latest medical information and advice from the BBC's Radio 4's health programmes. In Case Notes Dr Mark Porter takes an in-depth look at a different topic each week, speaking to doctors, patients and researchers about the latest treatments. In All in the Mind, psychologist, Claudia Hammond examines how we think and why we behave as we do.
A weekly podcast called John Hopkins Medicine Podcasts looking at the top medical stories of the week for people ''who want to become informed participants in their own health care'' is produced by the world famous John Hopkins School of Medicine. With Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Find below a link to Health Check the BBC World Service's weekly round up of global health stories and topical issues in medicine.Link:
Health Check
The Health Report is a program broadcast by the Australian Broadcast Commission [A.B.C.] each week on its Radio National station
The program aims to appeal to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts.
The Health Report is a valued information source for professionals and students in the medical and health professions, as well as attracting a sizeable audience of general listeners seeking jargon-free, easy-to-understand information and analysis on health and medical matters.
Presented by Dr Norman Swan, the program covers wide-ranging topics and issues, among them: cancer, endocrinology, epidemiology, exercise, gastroenterology, gynaecology, health education, mental health, nutrition, obstetrics, paediatrics, physiotherapy, and rheumatology.
Link: The Health Report
