CFPCLearn – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode of In the Clinic, Mike and Jess invite back Dr. Jennifer Young.  The team discusses Annie Ploidy, a 36-year-old female coming in for prenatal screening.

In episode 600, James and Mike invite Jamie Falk back to the podcast again and we talk about if exercise helps movement in Parkinson’s disease. You might be surprised by the size of the effect so have a listen and get all the evidence and numbers you need.

Show Notes
Tools For Practice
Exercise for Parkinson’s Disease: More movement = Better movement?

MEME Conference 2025 In Vancouver – May 9/10, 1025

In episode 599, James and Mike invite Roni Kraut to the podcast for the first time to talk about a common problem that has a simple answer. What route and/or duration of antifungals is needed when treating uncomplicated vulvovaginal candidiasis in non-pregnant women. Tune in to find out all the simple details.

Show Notes
Tools For Practice
A single dose for treating yeast infections: Is it really this simple?

MEME Conference 2025 Vancouver – May 9/10, 1025

In episode 598, James and Mike continue to talk with David Gardner about the issue of insomnia. We discuss his latest, very cool, Your Answers When Needing Sleep (YAWNS NB) randomized clinical trial. YAWNS was a pragmatic, open-label, minimum-contact, RCT where people with long-term use of benzodiazepines and current or past insomnia were randomly allocated to different mailed behavior change interventions or no intervention. They found that in people who got the intervention more of them stopped or reduced the dose of their benzodiazepines and more improved their sleep. Tune in for the numbers for this simple intervention.

Show Notes

The YAWNS NB trial

Booklets: order booklets via the Resource Centre

Sleepwell, a research and knowledge translation program based out of Dalhousie University in Halifax, includes tools, resources, and recommendations for patients, the public, and health care professionals.

Some features and resources to explore are:
Sleepwell stories (patient and health care professional video and written accounts)
Clinicians – short videos on how to use get what you need from the website for patient care, and CBT-I training options
Sleepwell recommends – vetted reviews and recommendations for self-help CBT-I programs
Sleeping pills – content to motivate and facilitate safely ending long-term use of sedatives
Tools – sleep diary, online sleep calculator (with guidance for time-in-bed restriction therapy), behaviour change tools (CBTi vs. Sleeping Pills)

Zopiclone’s residual effects on actual driving performance in a standardized test: a pooled analysis of age and sex effects in 4 placebo-controlled studies
Clin Ther 2014 Jan 1;36(1):141-50. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2013.11.00

In this episode of In the Clinic, Mike and Jess invite back Dr. Émélie Braschi. The team discusses Mr. Ramakanta, a 75-year-old man who is having trouble sleeping at night and difficulty breathing in the day time.

In episode 597, James and Mike invite David Gardner to talk in depth about the issue of insomnia. We talk about triggers, precipitating factors, acute and chronic insomnia, and chronic use of sleeping pills. We discuss Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and how his team has developed a comprehensive website, Sleepwell, that provides patients and clinicians with great tools and recommendations for the self-care of chronic insomnia. Mike stays awake for the whole podcast and James only has a brief nap.

Show Notes

Sleepwell, a research and knowledge translation program based out of Dalhousie University in Halifax, includes tools, resources, and recommendations for patients, the public, and health care professionals.

Visit https://mysleepwell.ca/

Some features and resources to explore are:
Sleepwell stories (patient and health care professional video and written accounts)
Clinicians – short videos on how to use get what you need from the website for patient care, and CBT-I training options
Sleepwell recommends – vetted reviews and recommendations for self-help CBT-I programs
Sleeping pills – content to motivate and facilitate safely ending long-term use of sedatives
Tools – sleep diary, online sleep calculator (with guidance for time-in-bed restriction therapy), behaviour change tools (CBTi vs. Sleeping Pills)

In episode 596, Mike and James talk in a PREMIUM way about three trials that used methotrexate for osteoarthritis and walking for back pain. Nothing miraculous but there seems to be an effect – so have a listen.

In episode 595, Mike and James invite Jennifer Young back to talk about the use of combined oral contraceptives for heavy menstrual bleeding (benign etiology) and see if they improve patient outcomes. They do! Have a listen to get all the numbers and see how they compare to using levonorgestrel-containing intrauterine devices or NSAIDs.

Show notes

Tools for Practice
1) How to Slow the Flow: Combined oral contraceptives
2) How to Slow the Flow: Tranexamic acid for heavy menstrual bleeding
3) How to Slow the Flow: Levonorgestrel intrauterine systems for heavy menstrual bleeding
4) How to Slow the Flow: NSAIDs for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding