Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Should all parents of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit be treated for staph? Elizabeth Tracey reports Using a nasal ointment and a medicated wipe in parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit reduced how often the babies were infected with bacteria known as ‘staph’ by more than fifty percent, […]

Anchor lead: Can a simple intervention reduce a common infection in newborns? Elizabeth Tracey reports Bacteria known by the shorthand ‘staph’ can cause serious and sometimes life-threatening infections in newborn babies, especially those in the neonatal intensive care unit or NICU. Now a new study by Aaron Milstone, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at Johns […]

Anchor lead: If you choose to fast there are many ways to do so, Elizabeth Tracey reports Studies on fasting have utilized different patterns, such as eating only 600 calories two days per week and consuming a normal diet on other days, but Mark Mattson, a neurosciences researcher at Johns Hopkins and author of a […]

Anchor lead: If you choose to fast, should you also exercise? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve chosen a fasting regimen to improve your health, should you also exercise? Mark Mattson, a neurosciences researcher at Johns Hopkins and author of a recent paper on fasting, says the answer is a resounding yes. Mattson: If you work […]

Anchor lead: How can fasting be good for us? Elizabeth Tracey reports Voluntarily restricting food intake allows our metabolism to use stored fat as an energy source, with a recent review paper by Mark Mattson, a neurosciences researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, finding multiple benefits. And Mattson says there is a biological basis for […]

Anchor lead: Restricting food intake so your body experiences fasting may help your health, Elizabeth Tracey reports Fasting involves having your body use stored fat as an energy source, with a recent review paper by Mark Mattson, a neurosciences researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, finding that even in the absence of dieting, such a […]

Anchor lead: Periodic fasting may be the best way to lose fat, Elizabeth Tracey reports Avoiding eating for intervals may help your body use stored fat as an energy source, a review paper by Mark Mattson, a neurosciences researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, shows. Mattson describes what’s needed to induce your body to mobilize […]

Anchor lead: Do dog bacteria account for a reduced risk for schizophrenia? Elizabeth Tracey reports Having a dog very early in life can reduce the risk for developing schizophrenia by about 40%, a study by Robert Yolken and colleagues at Johns Hopkins shows. Yolken says two factors he’d really like to measure are the dog’s […]

Anchor lead: Can having a dog early in life protect against schizophrenia? Elizabeth Tracey reports Dogs may indeed turn out to be man’s best friend when it comes to reducing the risk for developing schizophrenia. That’s according to research by Robert Yolken and colleagues at Johns Hopkins. Yolken: We found when we looked at dogs, […]

Anchor lead: Now that some people have been vaping for years, we’re beginning to see the damage, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who use electronic cigarettes are still at risk for a host of chronic lung diseases, new evidence concludes. This is especially true for those who use both combustible and electronic nicotine products, the study […]