July 2021 - Chloramphenicol eye drops, boron, infants and fertility

BMJ talk medicine

In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) provide an overview of the July issue of DTB. The editors catch up on developments with proposals for all doctors in the UK to provide financial and non-financial declarations of interest. They discuss the problem of boron in chloramphenicol eye drop products and the impact on treating children aged under 2 years (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/59/7/98). The editors also talk about PPIs for persistent throat symptoms (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/59/7/102), the dose of folic acid for use with methotrexate (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/59/7/103) and a case of a patient who developed severe hypophosphataemia with an oral bisphosphonate (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/59/7/107). Please subscribe to the DTB podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening.