Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: A new approach to engaging the immune system may help with common infections, Elizabeth Tracey reports You’ve likely had a number of vaccines in your lifetime to protect you against common infections like measles and mumps. These rely on the production of antibodies in your blood, and now another approach to vaccines that […]

Anchor lead: Can a new type of immune cell help a common infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Gamma/delta T is a type of immune cell that helps wall off a common skin infection- staph – and prevent it from spreading throughout the body, research by Lloyd Miller and colleagues at Johns Hopkins and several other institutions […]

Anchor lead: Spring is the time to watch carefully for suicides, Elizabeth Tracey reports Now that days are longer and summer is almost here, we’re all feeling better, right? Not so, says Adam Kaplin, a psychiatrist and mood disorders expert at Johns Hopkins. Kaplin notes that suicides actually peak in the spring. Kaplin: One-third of […]

Anchor lead: Girls are catching up with boys when it comes to suicide, Elizabeth Tracey reports Among those 10 to 14 years of age, girls are starting to close the gap with boys when it comes to completed suicide, the most recent data show. Adam Kaplin, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins and a mood disorders […]

Anchor lead: Spring is the season for suicides, Elizabeth Tracey reports Suicides in the US have risen by 30% in the last 15 years, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal. Adam Kaplin, a psychiatrist and mood disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, says spring is the time when we […]

Anchor lead: What factors do people think of when rating their own health? Elizabeth Tracey reports Would you rate your own health as excellent? People who do so most likely think of things like their exercise and dietary habits, how often they get sick, and other factors, but an alarming 10% of them had severe […]

Anchor lead: How accurate is how you assess your own health? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who rate their own health as excellent may still be at significant risk for cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke, a new study by Olusola Orimoloye, a cardiologist and postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Orimoloye: […]

Anchor lead: Can the presence or absence of a certain protein improve kidney transplants? Elizabeth Tracey reports Kidney transplant success could be improved by testing both donor and recipient for the presence of a certain protein that genes determine whether it is made or not. When there isn’t a match rejection is much more likely, […]

Anchor lead: Could you be having an allergic reaction in your kidneys? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re taking common antacid medications or pain relieving drugs, you could be putting yourself at risk to develop acute interstitial nephritis, or what amounts to an allergic reaction in your kidneys. Chirag Parikh, a kidney expert at Johns Hopkins […]

Anchor lead: A common cause of acute kidney injury is common drugs, Elizabeth Tracey reports A type of allergic reaction in the kidneys known as acute interstitial nephritis may be the cause of up to one in five hospitalizations for kidney problems, and now a new blood test developed by Chirag Parikh and colleagues at […]