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Dr David Hindmarsh and Julian Le Saux discuss articles from the BMJ:
Will a new NHS structure in England help recovery from the pandemic?, BMJ.n248
Universal basic income and covid-19 pandemic, BMJ.n193
Rammya Mathew: Is home working bad for our health?, BMJ.n333
Lifetime perspective on alcohol and brain health, BMJ.m4691
Treatment interventions to maintain abstinence from alcohol in primary care,BMJ.m3934
Puberty blockers do not alleviate negative thoughts in children with gender dysphoria, finds study, BMJ.n356

This is the first in what we hope will be a series of interviews with interesting people involved in medical research.

In this one we talk to Dr Alexander Jarasch, co-founder of CovidGraph (https://covidgraph.org), a non-profit research and communication platform encompassing over 128,000 Covid-related publications (plus 30,000,000 others from biometrical research), case statistics, genes and functions, molecular data and much more. Their aim is to use graph database technology to help researchers quickly and efficiently find their way through these massive COVID-19 datasets. It's mind boggling stuff!

Dr David Hindmarsh and Julian Le Saux discuss articles from the BMJ, Digital Health and elsewhere:
Could better connecting of data lead to a cure for Covid-19? (https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/09/could-better-connecting-of-data-lead-to-a-cure-for-covid-19)
Covid 19: a fork in the road for general practice (BMJ m3709)
Fifteen year quality of life outcomes in men with localised prostate cancer (BMJ m3503)
Taking a wellbeing years approach to policy choice (BMJ m3853)
When to release the lockdown? A wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits (Centre for Economic Performance, Occasional Paper no 49)

Dr David Hindmarsh and Julian Le Saux discuss articles from The Guardian, Digital Health and the BMJ:

Where are we on immunity and vaccines? BMJ 2020;370:m3096


Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care, BMJ 2020;370:m3026


Appraisal and revalidation for UK doctors—time to assess the evidence, BMJ 2020;370:m3415


Prioritising primary care patients with unexpected weight loss for cancer investigation, BMJ 2020;370:m2651


Breast cancer: study claiming that screening women in their 40s 'found the opposite', say crtics, BMJ 2020;370:m3191

Dr David Hindmarsh and Julian Le Saux discuss articles from The Guardian, Digital Health and the BMJ. To sign the People's Vaccine petition, go to https://actions.oxfam.org/international/covid-19-vaccine/petition/.
'The world needs a 'people's vaccine' for coronavirus, not a big-pharma monopoly', The Guardian, 23rd July 2020 (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/23/world-needs-coronavirus-vaccine-big-pharma-monopoly-astrazeneca-patent-pandemic)
'Code for Ireland’s Covid Tracker app given to global public health project', Digital Health, 23rd July 2020 (https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/07/code-for-irelands-covid-tracker-app-given-to-global-public-health-project/)
'Covid-19: Timing is critical for antibody tests, finds Cochrane review', BMJ, m2420
'Has Sweden's controverial covid-19 strategy been successful?', BMJ, m2376
'The healthiness and sustainability of food based dietary guidelines', BMJ, m2417
'Food Planet Health: Summary report of the EAT-Lancet Commission' (https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/eat-lancet-commission-summary-report/)

Dr David Hindmarsh and Julian Le Saux discuss articles from the Observer and the BMJ. Subjects under discussion this month, as for the last couple of months, are all connected to the Covid-19 outbreak - what's going to happen now that we're coming out of lockdown? Are we going to get a 'second wave'?
'Germany may have more immunological dark matter', The Observer, 31/5/20
'All cause mortality/Covid-19 in Nembro, Lombardy', BMJ m1835
'Too slow and fundamentally flawed', BMJ m2246
'Can the UK emulate S Korea's approach to Covid-19?', BMJ m2084