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BMJ SRH Podcast
BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health is an international journal that promotes evidence-informed practice for contraception, abortion and all aspects of sexual and reproductive health. The journal publishes research papers, topical debates and commentaries to shape policy, improve patient-centred clinical care, and to set the stage for future areas of research. You can follow the journal via Twitter (https://twitter.com/BMJ_SRH), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BMJ.SRH ) and the blog (http://blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/). Note: The journal was previously published as Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.
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Wednesday Jul 10, 2013
Wednesday Jul 10, 2013
This poem was composed and performed by professor James Owen Drife on the occasion of the Faculty’s 20th birthday celebration. The Editor felt the Journal’s readers might like to share the experience, although nothing could compare with seeing the performance ‘live’.When not engaged in composing and reciting poetry, professor Drife’s former day job was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Monday May 13, 2013
Monday May 13, 2013
Recorded at the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare annual symposium in Warwick this year, Lee Shulman and Ali Kubba give a transatlantic view of oral contraception.
Monday May 13, 2013
Monday May 13, 2013
Anne Szarewski talks to Nick Panay, chairman of the Menopause Society, about breast cancer risk in women receiving HRT, and how that risk has lead to the reduction in prescription of hormone therapy.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Romanian women have had an extraordinary struggle to manage their own fertility, from the soviet period of free abortion but limited contraception to the Ceausescu regimes’ prevention of both. To talk about the way in which rules under different periods have affected the health and fertility of Romanian women, we’re joined by Malcolm Potts from the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, University of California, Berkeley, who authored the editor’s choice article.See also:The remarkable story of Romanian women’s struggle to manage their fertility http://bit.ly/13VQlyP
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Dr Ellie Lee from the School of Social Policy, at the University of Kent, is worried about abortion policy in Britain. In an article written for JFPRHC, and in this podcast, she discusses how moral qualms are being presented as medical arguments, and how the attitudes of our politicians prevents implementation of good evidence based practice.Read “Whither abortion policy in Britain?” on the JFPRHC site http://bit.ly/12ForEB
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
An article published in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare looks at why women who were sexually abused as children are more reluctant to accept a cervical screening invitation. In this podcast we talk to Sarah Kelly, Training and Development Manager at the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC), and author of the commentary article which accompanies the research. NAPAC has experience of helping survivors of abuse overcome the trauma that can be initiated by an invitation, and Sarah shares their advice for both patients and screening providers.See also:The effects of childhood sexual abuse on women’s lives and their attitudes to cervical screening http://bit.ly/P7IuYeBarriers to cervical screening in women who have experienced sexual abuse: an exploratory studyhttp://bit.ly/UDguZu
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Duncan Jarvies talks to Ndola Prata (Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, University of California) about a novel service in Tigray region of North West Ethiopia, which increases women’s access to medical abortion, and has greatly decreased the rate of complications arising from unsafe abortion.See also:“A new hope for women”: medical abortion in a low-resource setting in Ethiopia http://bit.ly/17UOdXI
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
In the first JFPRHC podcast, Anne Swareski, editor of the journal, and Sam Hutt, an associate specialist at the Margaret Pyke Centre, discuss the use of local anaesthesia for IUD/IUS fittings.Related letter:Injectable local anaesthesia for IUD/IUS fittings http://bit.ly/10bdDJ4