Podcasts

Moderate aerobic activity combined with resistance and flexibility training help to improve clinical and functional outcomes, and may even reduce mortality and hospitalisation, for stable chronic heart failure patients according to the position statement on exercise training and chronic heart failure released by Exercise and Sport Science Australia.

Professor Gail Risbridger discusses the potential of oestrogen to treat castrate-resistant prostate cancer cells. Monash University researchers recently identified that activation of oestrogen receptor-ß can result in cell death. In the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Risbridger and colleagues demonstrated the beneficial effects of an oestrogen receptor agonist in treating both benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer (2010;107:3123–8).

Discussion of the BENEFIT study for MS and the role of elderly people in neurological research. (mp3, 7:38 mins, 4.76Mb)

Discussion of the ovarian cancer seminar. (mp3, 13:16 mins, 9.23Mb)

Rob Brierley discusses an antithrombolic agent for patients receiving chemotherapy for solid tumours. (mp3, 5:27 mins, 4.99Mb)

Discussion of pandemic influenza H1N1, and antiretroviral therapy in low-income and middle-income countries. (mp3, 6:38 mins, 6.06Mb)

Discussion of the CAVATAS trial for carotid stenosis. (mp3, 7:24 mins, 6.78Mb)

Hear about the special issue of the journal on physical activity in young people. Learn about objective measurement of physical activity in children 0-5 years. Listen to the latest advances in physical activity measurement using pedometers and accelerometers. Learn the decisions that drive the selection of measurement tools for assessing physical activity in children and adolescents.

Discussion of MRSA detection, and Plasmodium Vivax malaria. (mp3, 8:26 mins, 7.71Mb)

Discussion of prostate cancer treatment, the PASSION-P trial, and a new Quackery column. (mp3, 12:44 mins, 11.6Mb)