DTB Podcast

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The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) Podcast is your source for practical, independent, and evidence-based information on drugs, medication, and prescribing. Join the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of DTB each month as they discuss the key highlights of the latest issue. DTB - dtb.bmj.com - is published by BMJ Group, and offers rigorous, independent evaluations and practical advice on treatments and disease management for doctors, pharmacists, and healthcare professionals. Subscribe to the DTB Podcast and get the latest drug and therapeutic insights.

Episode Date
Understanding clinical significance, and the new epinephrine nasal spray
Mar 23, 2026
GLP-1 drugs, reducing sedative use, and a thank you
Feb 03, 2026
Disinformation and misinformation, AI in primary care and antidepressant tapering
Jan 06, 2026
Prevention in primary care, elinzanetant for menopause, and a farewell to David.
Dec 03, 2025
Medicines - but at what cost, direct penicillin allergy challenge, and prescribing mistakes
Nov 03, 2025
Orphan drugs, allopurinol and CVD, mavacamten for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Oct 01, 2025
Antibiotic susceptibility reports, deprescribing, and heart failure drugs
Sep 05, 2025
AI and DTB, drug safety, tirzepatide, and lecanemab for Alzheimer's disease
Jul 31, 2025
National asthma guidelines, bisoprolol for COPD and abaloparatide for osteoporosis
Jul 01, 2025
Identifying VTE in early pregnancy, gabapentinoids and COPD, managing ADHD
Jun 03, 2025
The polypill revisited, cytisinicline for vaping cessation and a new co-host
May 09, 2025
Misuse of female empowerment to sell tests and treatments, triptan safety, use of ACEI or AIIRA in CKD
Apr 02, 2025
Paying the price, liver problems with fezolinetant, systemic anticancer treatments
Mar 03, 2025
Prioritising shared decision making, remission from type 2 diabetes, gefapixant for cough
Jan 27, 2025
PILs: all harms and no benefits, Irish College of GPs end pharma funding, Ryeqo for fibroids
Dec 30, 2024
When it comes to drugs, sex matters; menopausal HT and dementia; daridorexant for sleep
Nov 28, 2024
Supporting obesity treatment, major bleeds with anticoagulants and SSRIs, equity in COPD care
Oct 30, 2024
(Un)common sense in oncology, DOACs in device-detected AF, and hypertension in the elderly
Sep 25, 2024
Medicines optimisation measures, warfarin-tramadol interaction and icosapent ethyl
Sep 06, 2024
Psychotropic medicines in children, warfarin vs DOAC in old age, and fezolinetant in menopause
Jul 29, 2024
Propranolol and its risk in overdose and managing COPD exacerbations
Jul 01, 2024
Diagnostic imaging and shielding, sinusitis, antibiotics and coloured snot, ritlecitinib
May 29, 2024
Medicines and global warming, donanemab for AD, and cytisine for smoking cessation
Apr 25, 2024
Drug safety alerts, valproate safety (again) and a new contraceptive POP
Mar 26, 2024
Protecting consumers, tramadol-warfarin interaction and very low calorie diets
Feb 28, 2024
ADHD medicines shortages, fluoroquinolone safety, drugs not to prescribe
Jan 30, 2024
Continuity of care, statins and myasthenia gravis, and acne
Dec 28, 2023
Rationalising blood tests, bempedoic acid and CV outcomes and semaglutide for obesity
Nov 30, 2023
BNF moving with the times; preventable deaths; plus an intro to pharmacogenetics
Oct 25, 2023
Taxing ill health, and what evidence for intravenous vitamins?
Sep 27, 2023
NICE and redacted data, spironolactone for acne, and drugs with anticholinergic activity
Aug 30, 2023
FeNO and asthma, low-dose aspirin and H pylori eradication, plus finerenone
Jul 26, 2023
July 2023: Whither evidence, COI in guidelines, isotretinoin safety, SGLT2 inhibitors and Utrogestan shortage
Jun 28, 2023
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - Barbara Mintzes
Jun 14, 2023
Aciclovir PEP after VZ exposure in pregnancy, falls and fractures with aspirin, an inclisiran rant
May 31, 2023
May 2023 - another DTB celebration (or two), OACs and NSAIDs, and siRNA-based therapeutics
Apr 20, 2023
When should you take antihypertensive medication. Prescribing for skin conditions in pregnancy
Mar 22, 2023
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - Joanna Girling
Mar 08, 2023
Penicillin allergy, lecanemab and Alzeimer’s disease, a new oral contraceptive and statins for all
Feb 20, 2023
Swapping to edoxaban, DOACs in renal impairment, inflammatory rheumatic diseases in pregnancy
Jan 23, 2023
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - John Dowden
Jan 12, 2023
Happy New Year, sad news from Australia, toxocarosis in humans and yet more on valproate safety
Dec 20, 2022
December 2022 - MHT and ’brain fog’, risks from sodium-containing paracetamol and 2022 revisited
Nov 22, 2022
DTB 60th anniversary podcast interview - Jo Congleton
Nov 03, 2022
November 2022 - FMT, methotrexate and COVID vaccine boosters, and Palforzia for peanut allergy
Oct 26, 2022
October 2022 - two freebies, advertising woes, paracetamol (again) and standing up to Pharma
Sep 26, 2022
September 2022 - healthcare costs, gout, metformin and B12, more on COI and carbetocin
Aug 22, 2022
August 2022 - COI, STOMP/STAMP, BP deprescribing, amiodarone and bempedoic acid
Jul 25, 2022
July 2022 - an e-letter, estradiol, APPGs, inclisiran and nitrofurantoin
Jun 28, 2022
June 2022 - a complaint, primary care spirometry, paracetamol and frailty, serotonin syndrome
May 26, 2022
May 2022 - an apology, international drug bulletins, mirtazapine and oral antivirals for covid-19
Apr 26, 2022
DTB turns 60! Plus: conflicts of interest, harms from nitrofurantoin and hypertension in pregnancy
Mar 22, 2022
March 2022 - Paracetamol and blood pressure, greener inhalers, harms from medicines and naldemedine
Feb 22, 2022
Overprescribing, overuse of short-acting beta agonists, inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy
Jan 25, 2022
January 2022 - Molnupiravir, potentially harmful prescribing and antidepressant withdrawal reactions
Dec 18, 2021
Dec 2021 - Overprescribing, BP monitor accuracy, topical steroids, and bremelanotide and flibanserin
Nov 22, 2021
November 2021 - Drugs to avoid, penicillin allergy and a new drug for osteoporosis
Oct 24, 2021
October 2021 - Desogestrel POM to P, PCI in stable IHD, and migraine in pregnancy
Sep 29, 2021
September 2021: Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s, antibiotics, shared-decision making, and dental health
Aug 23, 2021
August 2021. Community pharmacy discharge medicines service: a step towards improved patient safety?
Jul 26, 2021
July 2021 - Chloramphenicol eye drops, boron, infants and fertility
Jun 23, 2021
June 2021 - COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy
May 24, 2021
May 2021 - Time for transparency
Apr 26, 2021
April 2021 - Asthma, a disease of variability
Mar 22, 2021
March 2021 - Opioid safety: striking the right balance
Feb 23, 2021
February 2021 - Why vaccines matter
Jan 25, 2021
January 2021 - COVID-19 vaccination: we need more than the ‘mum test’
Jan 04, 2021
COVID-19 vaccines - getting the information right
Nov 27, 2020
December 2020 - Hype and hope of bedtime dosing of antihypertensives
Nov 25, 2020
November 2020 - Chronic pain (analgesia armageddon)
Oct 26, 2020
October 2020 - Making medicines safer?
Sep 28, 2020
September 2020 - Dilemmas in commissioning biological therapies
Aug 24, 2020
August 2020 - Virtual revolution
Jul 27, 2020
Low-dose aspirin for prevention of pre-eclampsia: when over the counter just isn’t
Jun 22, 2020
Deprescribing in the time of COVID-19
May 27, 2020
Improving consultations with children and adolescents, plus treating Covid-19 with ibuprofen
Apr 27, 2020
April 2020 - Lung volume in COPD: when less is more
Mar 24, 2020
March 2020 - Dapagliflozin for type 1 diabetes: ensuring benefits outweigh the risks
Feb 26, 2020
February 2020 - Registering our interest
Jan 27, 2020
Melatonin for jet lag
Dec 20, 2019
January 2020 - Polypharmacy and deprescribing: just ask the patient
Dec 16, 2019
December 2019 - Has the polypill finally proven its worth?
Nov 25, 2019
November 2019 - Meeting QOF hypertension targets but failing the patient
Oct 23, 2019
October 2019 -Medicines optimisation: time to review fibrates?
Sep 23, 2019
September 2019 - Social prescribing: right idea, wrong name?
Aug 27, 2019
August 2019: Time to speed up the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia
Jul 22, 2019
July 2019: It is hard work being a patient
Jun 19, 2019
June 2019: If the drugs don’t work
May 29, 2019
May 2019: The new GP contract - an opportunity for drugs and therapeutics
May 15, 2019
April 2019: DOAC dosing in renal impairment
Mar 20, 2019
March 2019: A new direction for diabetes
Feb 25, 2019
February 2019: The past, present and future of inhaled corticosteroids for COPD
Jan 21, 2019
January 2019: Challenging the supremacy of intravenous antibiotics
Dec 14, 2018
December 2018: Information on medicines for patients
Nov 16, 2018
November 2018: Travelling with medicines
Oct 17, 2018
October 2018: atrial fibrillation, opioids for chronic pain and over-the-counter sildenafil
Oct 08, 2018
Here’s your New DTB!
Sep 12, 2018
August 2018: what’s your position on giving birth?
Aug 06, 2018
July 2018: managing herbal-drug interactions
Jul 11, 2018
June 2018: Antidepressants - there is no news
Jul 02, 2018
May 2018: Does pulmonary rehabilitation need more PR?
May 09, 2018
April 2018: STOMP - time to make more noise
Apr 11, 2018
March 2018: Do hypertension guidelines put the person first?
Mar 12, 2018
February 2018: Clinical guidelines - more PDAs please
Feb 09, 2018
January 2018: No alchemy for obesity
Jan 02, 2018
December 2017: Shared care protocols – have they had their day?
Dec 04, 2017
November 2017: Prescribing in pregnancy - stop stopping and start planning
Nov 06, 2017
October 2017: Flagging risk
Oct 09, 2017
September 2017: Vitamin D and adolescents: a forgotten ‘at risk’ group?
Sep 04, 2017
August 2017: What price drugs online?
Jul 26, 2017
July 2017: The good, the bad and the ugly
Jul 05, 2017
June 2017: Turning the tide of high-dose inhaled corticosteroids
Jun 05, 2017
May 2017: Rational rationing in the NHS?
May 03, 2017
April 2017: Prevention of type 2 diabetes - where do you draw the line?
Mar 28, 2017
March 2017: Better PrEParation needed?
Mar 14, 2017
February 2017: Spironolactone - potion or poison?
Feb 06, 2017
January 2017: Sore throat test and treat - a £34 million question?
Jan 09, 2017
December 2016: Wise words on prescription of medicines and treatment decisions
Nov 21, 2016
November 2016: Rubella immunisation. Check vaccination history
Nov 07, 2016
October 2016: the dangers of a quicker authorisation process for drugs
Oct 21, 2016
September 2016: Last orders for nalmefene in the management of alcohol dependence?
Aug 24, 2016
August 2016: Better guidelines. Capsaicin for diabetic neuropathy. Excipients in medicines
Aug 08, 2016
July 2016: Where next for rationing medicines? Vitamins during pregnancy: a big marketing campaign?
Jul 07, 2016
June 2016: Problems with botanicals; a new drug for heart failure; frailty and deprescribing
May 25, 2016
May 2016: supporting learning disabilities; new drugs for orthostatic hypotension and ADHD
May 09, 2016
April 2016: the cancer drugs fund for England, restless legs and animal-derived content in medicines
Apr 06, 2016
March 2016 Issue: Testosterone replacement therapy and a new antidepressant
Mar 01, 2016
February 2016 issue: Too many options, too little choice in COPD?
Feb 04, 2016
January 2016 issue: NHS Health Checks, Adolescent Adherence and Management of Dry Eye
Jan 08, 2016
December 2015 issue: Cost-effectiveness of drugs on long term conditions
Dec 01, 2015
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Herbal medicines – what do clinicians know?
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Tamiflu - the wrong message?
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Real costs of end-of-life drugs
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What are you on?
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Mole checks on the high street
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