NB Hot Topics Podcast
The Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical brings you the latest in general practice current affairs, reviews the latest research relevant to primary care, explores interesting and important topics in-depth, and looks at cutting edge medicine.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
S1 E20 - Schools, Boris bikes, Obesity and Vaccines
In this final podcast for the summer Dr Neal Tucker reflects on the latest news and research in the world of general practice from the past two weeks.
As COVID cases start to rise again we look at the…
S1 E19 - Immunity and T cells, Post-COVID Syndrome
Welcome to the latest episode of the Hot Topics Podcast with Neal Tucker from NB Medical.
All about coronavirus again! The two big topics this week are immunity and the importance of T cells plus an i…
S1 E18 - Antibody tests, dexamethasone and the coming 2nd wave
In our latest Hot Topics podcast, Neal Tucker discusses the latest news and research for primary care.
This week a firm focus on coronavirus once again. We talk about antibody tests and why there see…
S1 E17 - Race, riots and inequality; faked hydroxychlorquine research; face masks; NEWS in GP; liraglutide for childhood obesity
In the latest episode of the Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker discusses the latest news and research relevant to primary care.
Today we talk about race, inequalities and unconscious bias and how this a…
S1 E16 - Children, coronavirus and Kawasaki-like disease; Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and cardiac arrest; antibody testing; non-coronavirus research!!!
In this latest Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker reviews the latest knowledge about coronavirus and non-SARs-CoV2 research relevant to primary care.
We review new reports of Kawasaki-like disease in chi…
S1 E15 - Coronavirus Special: Do The Drugs Work?
In our latest Hot Topics podcast Neal Tucker examines the emerging treatments for Covid-19 including remdesivir, antiplatelets, vitamin D and vaccinations. Do these provide the magic bullet we need t…
S1 E14 - Coronavirus Special: The Future for General Practice
In this latest coronavirus special Neal Tucker discusses the latest knowledge about COVID-19 and how general practice will need to adapt to a world with persisting coronavirus.
We discuss the effects …
S1 E13 - Coronavirus Special: Saving Lives and the End of Life
The latest NB Hot Topics podcast is the third Coronavirus Special: Saving Lives and the End of Life.
In this edition, Neal Tucker reviews what we have learned about coronavirus this week including the…
S1 E12 - Coronavirus Special: Covid-19 in the Community
In this week's NB Hot Topics Podcast Neal Tucker looks at the latest developments in the coronavirus literature including data on hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combination treatment, why lockdown a…
S1 E11 - Coronavirus Special: Lessons for General Practice
In this week's NB Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker looks at what lessons we can learn in general practice to help us prepare for and fight the coronavirus pandemic.
We can learn from our international …
S1 E10 - Coronavirus Special: Making General Practice Great Again
With all the stress and uncertainty Coronavirus has placed on the world and the health service this special podcast Dr Neal Tucker looks how we as professionals and humans are coping with COVID-19, w…
S1 E9 - Coronavirus pt.3, Salt and BP, Eggs and CVD, Why All Blood Tests are Wrong
In Episode 9 of the NB Hot Topics podcast, Neal Tucker looks at the latest on coronavirus, guidance for primary care and how other countries have managed the infection. In other news he discusses the…
S1 E8 - Coronavirus pt.2, Propranolol Overdose, CKD screening, Big Data and GP
This week in the NB Hot Topics podcast Dr Near Tucker looks at the latest news including propranolol overdose and assisted dying, examines the latest research from around the world on Covid-19 and fr…
S1 E7 - Coronavirus, Isolated Diastolic Hypertension & Varicella Booster
In this NB Hot Topics Podcast, Dr Neal Tucker takes an in depth look at coronavirus, the data that scientists need to predict whether it becomes a pandemic, and how this affects UK general practice. …
S1 E6 - Alcohol and AF, Colchicine and Cardiac Events, Anti-virals and Influenza
In this first episode for 2020, Dr Neal Tucker explores new research on alcohol abstinence in improving atrial fibrillation, and colchicine post-myocardial infarction to reduce inflammation and preve…
S1 E5 - Cholesterol Levels in Younger Age Predicting Future Risk, Dyspepsia Strategies, Once-monthly POP
In this final Hot Topics Podcast before Christmas, Dr Neal Tucker explores a fascinating new piece of research showing how lipid levels at younger ages can predict future cardiovascular events and ma…
S1 E4 - Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure, Melatonin for Insomnia, Suspended Animation
In our latest Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker reviews the latest news and research from primary care, including the benefits of dapagliflozin for heart failure, the lack of benefits of levothyroxine …
S1 E3 - Medical Cannabis, Vestibular Rehabiliation, Bempedoic Acid, Measles and Immunity
In our latest Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker is joined by Dr Simon Curtis to discuss where we are with medical cannabis, plus the latest news and research from primary care, including how to prevent…
S1 E2 - Ranitidine, Night-time Anti-hypertensives, Once Weekly Statins, Genome Editing
In our second NB Podcast from NB Medical Dr Neal Tucker discusses recent Hot Topics including the restrictions on ranitidine, the benefits of taking anti-hypertensives at night-time, using statins ju…
S1 E1 - Childhood Obesity, eCigarettes & Exoskeletons
In our first Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical Dr Neal Tucker discusses why Public Health England should review its stance on e-cigarette safety, looks at Dame Sally Davies report on childhood obesi…