Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: A diabetes medicine that used to be injected can now be taken by mouth, Elizabeth Tracey reports October 16, 2019 It’s a pretty safe bet that most people don’t want to have to use injectable medications. Now people with diabetes who need the class of medicines known as GLP1s, previously requiring injection, have […]

Anchor lead: What are the issues in using drugs for diabetes in other conditions? Elizabeth Tracey reports October 15, 2019 Perhaps you’ve heard of the diabetes drug metformin being used for weight loss, or the diabetes drug dapagliflozin in heart failure. Such uses are called off label, and while they may be helpful, Rita Kalyani, […]

Anchor lead: Can a drug used in diabetes help people with heart failure? Elizabeth Tracey reports October 14, 2019 Dapagliflozin is a drug used to manage diabetes, and now it’s been shown to benefit people with heart failure. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, explains. Kalyani: What the investigators wanted to do in […]

Anchor lead: Hope is here for cure of drug resistant tuberculosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Pretomanid is the name of a drug recently approved by the FDA for drug resistant tuberculosis, or TB, the type of infection that caused panic among airline passengers recently when it was revealed that someone with the bug was aboard. While […]

Anchor lead: Some people with multiple sclerosis repair their own damage, Elizabeth Tracey reports OPC is the acronym for a cell that seems to be involved in multiple sclerosis, both having the capacity to repair the insulation around nerve cells called myelin, but also promoting the disease process when inflammation is present, as shown recently […]

Anchor lead: A cell known by the acronym OPC may be critical in worsening MS, Elizabeth Tracey reports Multiple sclerosis, where the body attacks the insulation around nerve cells known as myelin, affects almost a million people in the United States alone, often resulting in disability and sometimes death. Now research by Peter Calabresi, an […]

Anchor lead: Many healthcare workers will no longer need an annual TB test, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who work in healthcare have had annual tuberculosis tests for many years, but that’s changing. At Johns Hopkins people are tested when they begin working and then only if they’ve been exposed afterward. Richard Chaisson, a TB expert […]

Anchor lead: A new combination regimen for tuberculosis is a game changer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Drug resistant tuberculosis is a killer, but now a drug recently approved by the FDA, called Pretomanid, in combination with two existing drugs, can help. Richard Chaisson, a TB expert at Johns Hopkins, describes its impact. Chaisson: The disease it’s […]

Anchor lead: Paying attention to dropping blood pressure in later life is needed, Elizabeth Tracey reports People with high blood pressure or hypertension have about a 50% increased risk for dementia as they age, a Johns Hopkins study by Keenan Walker and colleagues has confirmed. But in those with the condition, if blood pressure fell […]

Anchor lead: A drop in blood pressure later in life may result in cognitive impairment, Elizabeth Tracey reports High blood pressure or hypertension is a known risk factor for the development of dementia, but now a Johns Hopkins study shows that among those with the condition a late life drop in blood pressure is even […]