Measles, mumps and rubella are all serious illnesses. They are also all preventable.
Vaccination is safe and effective. But take up of the vaccine is not what it should be.
To find out more about this problem and what we can do about it, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Helen Bedford, Professor of Children's Health at the UCL ... Show More
Oct 14
Evidence-based medicine, GRADE, and BMJ
The purpose of BMJ Best Practice is to help get evidence into practice. We use GRADE to ensure that we use the highest quality evidence. GRADE helps us to assess evidence for risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision, and the degree to which it may be subject to publ ... Show More
22m 39s
Feb 2019
Measles in general practice – Episode 52
In this episode, Adjunct Professor Paul Effler, medical coordinator, Communicable Disease Control Directorate, WA Department of Health speaks to The Good GP about measles and measles outbreaks.
In this episode, Paul covers the major public health implications of measles, typical ... Show More
14m 4s
Jan 2021
Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything
For many of us, rubella has simply come to mean the R in MMR, the routine childhood measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. But that hasn’t always been the case. There was once a time when the rubella virus routinely made front page news and was at the center of countless legal disc ... Show More
1h 19m