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This week we look at older women’s health, Gita Mishra from the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, explains the trajectories of perimenopausal symptoms. Martha Hickey, professor of obstetrics….

With the future of the Health and Social Care bill more certain, how will the health service react to the legislative changes? At this year’s Nuffield Trust Health Policy Summit,….

Dan Chisholm, a health economist with the World Health Organisation talks to Harriet Vickers about a cluster of articles which examines the more cost effective way to tackle non-communicable diseases….

Is elective ventilation an acceptable way to increase organs available for transplant? Duncan Jarvies discusses the ethics with Dominic Wilkinson (associate professor of neonatal medicine and bioethics, and consultant neonatologist,….

A new peer led parenting group is having success in South London, we visit a session to find out why. Also Jane Driver, an associate professor at Brigham and Women’s….

Indhu Prabakar, a subspecialty registrar in sexual and reproductive health at Abacus Services for Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in Liverpool, goes through the options for emergency contraception. Tim Coleman, a….

Eithne MacMahon, consultant and honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, explains how to test and treat a pregnant woman exposed….

Hopes are high that the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will have a lasting sports and exercise legacy, but the work done to ensure the health of the millions of attendees….

This week we’re concentrating on the problem of an overactive bladder, the subject of a cluster of articles in this week’s BMJ. Practice editor Mabel Chew is joined by Linda….

The focus of this week’s programme is health promotion and behaviour change. Joining Karim Khan, BJSM editor, and Domhnall McAuley, BMJ primary care editor, is Mike Evans, associate professor of….