Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Are blacks more likely to develop lung cancer if they smoke than whites? Elizabeth Tracey reports Blacks who smoked less than whites as measured by pack years of smoking were still at risk to develop lung cancer, a recent study found, but would have been missed by current screening guidelines. Otis Brawley, professor […]

Anchor lead: Are cigarettes more toxic for blacks than other ethnic groups? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smoking causes lung cancer, and it may be more dangerous for blacks than for whites, a recent study found. Otis Brawley, professor of oncology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, describes the findings. Brawley: It seems like in black Americans the […]

Anchor lead: Bad behavior can impact the whole healthcare culture, Elizabeth Tracey reports When surgeons are rude and abrasive to their care team, patients may experience more errors and rehospitalizations, a recent study found. Keven Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System, comments. Sowers: It’s not just in the OR, it’s in the ICU, […]

Anchor lead: A two therapy approach may help in the most common form of leukemia, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, abbreviated CLL, is the most common form of leukemia, often affecting older people and those with certain mutations. Now a new study looked at whether combining two drugs known to be effective separately was […]

Anchor lead: A new study is attempting to assess the roots of burnout among medical residents, Elizabeth Tracey reports When physicians report being burned out, everyone suffers. Now a new study is assessing the roots of burnout among medical residents. Brian Garibaldi, one of the study’s investigators at Johns Hopkins, explains. Garibaldi: Burnout has been […]

Anchor lead: Can understanding blood flow in a tumor lead to better treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports What’s the best approach to treating a tumor? A new modeling method for assessing blood supply, critical to a tumor’s growth and survival, may help. That’s according to Arvind Pathek, an imaging expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, who’ve […]

Anchor lead: Understanding blood flow in a tumor may be critical to treating the cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Everything in your body needs blood to survive, and so do tumors. Interrupting their blood supply has been a target for years, and now a new mapping system developed by Arvind Pathek, an imaging expert at Johns […]

Anchor lead: DNA all over your body is quite variable and may have many mutations, Elizabeth Tracey reports Many new tests poised to become clinically useful rely on analyzing DNA and finding changes known as mutations or other features to identify cancer as well as a host of other diseases early. Now accumulating research has […]

Anchor lead: Your DNA is a lot more random than you might think, Elizabeth Tracey reports DNA is neatly packaged and essentially the same all over your body, right? Wrong, increasing evidence shows. Cristian Tomasetti, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, says the term used to describe the actually quite variable DNA sequencing with its […]

Anchor lead: Strokes may be treated within a longer time window, Elizabeth Tracey reports Strokes caused by clots in the brain may now be treated with clot dissolving drugs within about 9 hours, a new study suggests, as long as brain imaging shows there’s tissue that may benefit. Rebecca Gottesman, a stroke expert at Johns […]