Talk evidence - TIAs, aging in Japan and women in medicine

In this EBM round-up, Carl Heneghan, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are back to give you an update Dual vs single therapy for prevention of TIA or minor stroke - how does the advice that dual work better translate in the UK? Carl explains why Japan can teach us to get active and, how GPs can use that information to "drop a decade" in aging. Finally, Helen took some time to relax over Christmas - until she read a story in the Christmas edition about gender discrimination in medicine, and it reminded her of her time on the ward. Reading list: The BMJ Practice: Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel for acute high risk transient ischaemic attack and minor ischaemic stroke https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4169 Delaying and reversing frailty: a systematic review of primary care interventions

https://bjgp.org/content/early/2018/11/30/bjgp18X700241