July 2016: Where next for rationing medicines? Vitamins during pregnancy: a big marketing campaign?

In this podcast, James Cave (DTB Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (DTB Deputy Editor) discuss proposals to stop the prescription of some medicines and foods in order to help manage the deficit in NHS budgets. Full article available here: http://dtb.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/07/dtb.2016.7.0409.full.

The podcast also includes a review of an article about the effects of the antidiabetic drug empagliflozin on cardiovascular outcomes, as well as a review of an article on the use of vitamin supplementation during pregnancy. Read this article here: http://dtb.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/11/dtb.2016.7.0414.full.