Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Can less be more when it comes to treating head and neck cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports Aggressive treatment for cancers of the head and neck can save lives, and it also produces a host of consequences people must live with. Now that the majority of these cancers are related to infection with a […]

Anchor lead: Sending a nurse to a person’s home helps manage heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports People with heart failure often contend with complicated self-care plans and are at high risk for repeated hospitalizations. Now a new study shows that sending a nurse to the home of a patient with heart failure improves both quality […]

Anchor lead: Can artificial intelligence improve mammography? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can the power of mammography to correctly identify breast cancers be improved used artificial intelligence or machine learning? A recent study finds it can. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, describes the data. Nelson: This was Google’s play to look […]

Anchor lead: Supplements known as antioxidants may be harmful for women being treated for breast cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re being treated for breast cancer, taking supplements that fall into a category known as ‘antioxidants’ may not be a good idea, a recent study found. This includes vitamins such as C, E, and A, […]

Anchor lead: How many opioid overdoses may actually be suicides? Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid overdose deaths may actually be suicides in a sizeable number of cases, a recent study projects. Eric Strain, a drug addiction expert at Johns Hopkins, says a look at changing social factors for at risk groups is revealing. Strain: What’s really […]

Anchor lead: Adolescents experience opioid overdose and need treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer than one in fifty adolescents who come to an emergency department with opioid overdose and survive are offered recommended treatment to help them avoid a recurrence, a study by Rachel Alinsky, an adolescent medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. […]

Anchor lead: How are adolescents who overdose on opioids treated? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people experience a non-fatal opioid overdose treatment to curb addiction and help them avoid recurrence is indicated, yet only a very few adolescents receive such treatment. That’s according to research by Rachel Alinsky, an adolescent medicine expert at Johns Hopkins. Alinsky: […]

Anchor lead: Different ethnicities have differing rates of diabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your risk of developing type 2 diabetes may depend in part on your race or ethnicity, a recent study found. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, explains. Kalyani: This study really broke down what are the ethnic subgroups that may have […]

Anchor lead: A program called ‘ADAP’ is helping raising awareness of depression in adolescents, Elizabeth Tracey reports Depression is a major factor in the increasing rate of suicide among adolescents, and a program to help, known by the acronym ADAP, developed by Karen Swartz, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, is now poised to […]

Anchor lead: Flu infection is continuing at a high level, Elizabeth Tracey reports The CDC is reporting almost 5000 deaths from the flu so far this season, and while rates of new cases have dropped a bit from last week, they remain high. Aaron Milstone, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says there are […]