Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Does brain training help stave off Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports Education seems to produce a cognitive reserve, helping stave off clinical signs of Alzheimer’s disease even while the biological process continues, research by Rebecca Gottesman, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Gottesman says the study suggests that brain training […]

Anchor lead: What is the link between education level and Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with more years of education seem to manifest Alzheimer’s disease less often than those with fewer years. Now a new study by Rebecca Gottesman, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, separates pathology in the brain from thinking. Gottesman: […]

Anchor lead: Who will treat all the people who are surviving cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports By 2030, there will be millions of people who’ve survived their cancer treatment, the American Cancer Society has just reported, and while that’s great news, it does leave the medical system in a bit of a bind. William Nelson, director […]

Anchor lead: A mouse model may point the way toward a better understanding of how Parkinson’s disease develops, Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein called synuclein that’s involved in nerve cell communication is thought to be the culprit in causing Parkinson’s disease. Now a mouse model developed by Ted Dawson, a Parkinson’s disease expert at Johns […]

Anchor lead: A blood test for cancer may also be able to isolate the location, Elizabeth Tracey reports  Looking at patterns of DNA fragments in the blood, Johns Hopkins researcher Victor Velculescu and colleagues have developed a new screening test for cancer. Among its many advantages, this blood test may also spot where the cancer […]

Anchor lead: Integrating several pieces of data may point the way toward early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cognitive testing, brain scans, and many other measures over twenty years in people at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease may help develop a method to spot Alzheimer’s disease early. That’s the hope of researchers at […]

Anchor lead: A new study may point the way to early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Finding out that people are on the road to developing Alzheimer’s disease early may make intervening more effective, and a new test developed at Johns Hopkins may suggest a way. Laurent Younes, chair of the department of […]

Anchor lead: A new approach to finding cancer DNA in the blood has been developed, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your blood may hold the key to early detection of cancer since DNA circulating there can be detected and analyzed, hopefully spotting the disease early. A new approach to analyzing this DNA  known by the acronym DELFI […]

Anchor lead: Is being able to spot cancer with a blood test closer to reality? Elizabeth Tracey reports You have your own DNA circulating in your bloodstream all the time, and new tests aim to identify such DNA that may come from cancer cells. Now a new test, developed by Victor Velculescu and colleagues at […]

Anchor lead: How can we explain why some people respond to cancer treatments and others don’t? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer treatments known as immune checkpoint inhibitors have produced amazing results in about half of people in whom they’re used. Now research from Johns Hopkins may help explain why the other half doesn’t respond by […]