Australian Prescriber podcast
Fortnightly interviews with the authors of Australian Prescriber articles
The Australian Prescriber Podcast provides a regular dive into some of the many great articles that Australian Prescriber publishes every two months. In each episode, one of our hosts will chat with an author from a recent issue of Australian Prescriber.
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Episode 94 – HIV diagnoses fall as PrEP is embraced
- 08 Dec 2020
- 20 min
- Transcript
Episode 94 – HIV diagnoses fall as PrEP is embraced
- 08 Dec 2020
- 20 min
- Transcript
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Dhineli Perera
talks to medical
epidemiologist
and public
health physician
Andrew Grulich
about the
successful story
of pre-exposure
prophylaxis for
HIV infection in
Australia and
what lies
ahead. Read
the full
article
in Australian
Prescriber. |
Episode 93 – Prescription monitoring and helping people at risk
- 24 Nov 2020
- 16 min
- Transcript
Episode 93 – Prescription monitoring and helping people at risk
- 24 Nov 2020
- 16 min
- Transcript
David Liew talks to Public health
physician Malcolm Dobbin about
how to help people identified
through real-time prescription
monitoring systems. Read
the full article in
Australian
Prescriber.
Episode 92 – Testing for COVID-19
- 10 Nov 2020
- 18 min
- Transcript
Episode 92 – Testing for COVID-19
- 10 Nov 2020
- 18 min
- Transcript
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David Liew talks
to infectious
diseases
physician Anna
Brischetto about
the different
COVID-19 tests,
when to use
them, and what
samples to
take. Read
the full
article
in Australian
Prescriber. |
Episode 91 – Opioid prescribing in dentistry
- 27 Oct 2020
- 14 min
- Transcript
Episode 91 – Opioid prescribing in dentistry
- 27 Oct 2020
- 14 min
- Transcript
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Jo Cheah talks to
pharmacist and
dentist Leanne
Teoh about the
issues around
prescribing
opioids for
dental pain and
discusses the
more effective
and safer
alternatives. Read
the full
article
in Australian
Prescriber. |
Episode 90 – What is hypertension?
- 13 Oct 2020
- 16 min
- Transcript
Episode 90 – What is hypertension?
- 13 Oct 2020
- 16 min
- Transcript
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How do you define
high blood
pressure? It
depends on the
guidelines you
use. Justin
Coleman
interviews
Genevieve Gabb
about the
differences in
international
guidelines and
ways of
measuring blood
pressure. Read
the full
article
in Australian
Prescriber. |
Episode 89 – Prescribing medicinal cannabis
- 29 Sep 2020
- 20 min
- Transcript
Episode 89 – Prescribing medicinal cannabis
- 29 Sep 2020
- 20 min
- Transcript
What do GPs need to know about
prescribing medicinal cannabis
in Australia? Ashlea Broomfield
interviews pharmacologist
Jonathon Arnold and GP Tamara
Nation about this controversial
area of medicine. Read
the full article in
Australian
Prescriber.
Episode 88 – Managing chronic leukaemias
- 22 Sep 2020
- 18 min
- Transcript
Episode 88 – Managing chronic leukaemias
- 22 Sep 2020
- 18 min
- Transcript
Life expectancy of chronic
leukaemia patients has greatly
improved. Jo Cheah interviews
Eric Li about the new drugs that
have made this possible. Read
the full article in
Australian
Prescriber.
Episode 87 – Potions and the dark arts: the latest from eTG Toxicology
- 15 Sep 2020
- 19 min
- Transcript
Episode 87 – Potions and the dark arts: the latest from eTG Toxicology
- 15 Sep 2020
- 19 min
- Transcript
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Justin Coleman interviews Venita Munir about the latest updates from Therapeutic Guidelines on all things toxic, including mushrooms, button batteries, paracetamol, snake and spider bites, and recreational drugs. |
Episode 86 - Deprescribing in older people
- 01 Sep 2020
- 11 min
- Transcript
Episode 86 - Deprescribing in older people
- 01 Sep 2020
- 11 min
- Transcript
Ashlea Broomfield interviews
Michelle Liacos about the safest
approaches to reducing
polypharmacy in older
people. Read
the full article in
Australian
Prescriber.
