Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: A new drug for postpartum depression offers hope for a common condition, Elizabeth Tracey reports Postpartum depression is surprisingly common, so it’s good news that the FDA has recently approved a new drug to treat the disorder. Lauren Osborne, a postpartum depression expert at Johns Hopkins, reviews what’s known about the condition. Osborne: […]

Anchor lead: What is the impact of psychosocial factors on outcomes after surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports How do psychosocial factors, such as reaction to stress, impact recovery after cancer surgery? According to a study by Ira Leeds, a surgical resident and postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, when taken along with the presence of […]

Anchor lead: New risk factors for poor surgical outcomes have been identified, Elizabeth Tracey reports How well do you cope with stress? Do you have people in your life who will help if things go awry? Such factors, called ‘psychosocial risk factors,’ may have an impact on how well you recover from surgery if you […]

Anchor lead: Why would someone with HIV donate a kidney? Elizabeth Tracey reports Have you ever considered donating a kidney? People do so for a number of reasons, including helping a loved one and giving back. Dorry Segev, one of the transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins involved in the recent historic kidney transplant between an […]

Anchor lead: Does having HIV make kidney transplantation more risky? Elizabeth Tracey reports HIV infection today is a chronic, manageable condition, so much so that life expectancy for someone with HIV is essentially the same as someone without the virus. Dorry Segev, one of the transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins who performed the recent kidney […]

Anchor lead: An historic kidney transplant among two people with HIV has taken place at Johns Hopkins, Elizabeth Tracey reports Transplanting a kidney from one person with HIV to another who is also infected has just taken place for the first time. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, says just like many others, […]

Anchor lead: Is use of e-cigarettes to quit smoking really helpful? Elizabeth Tracey reports Harm reduction. That’s the health strategy of substituting one behavior for another that is less harmful, and that’s the idea behind using e-cigarettes to quit smoking. A recent study showed that use of e-cigarettes did help people quit, although the numbers […]

Anchor lead: What can the recent death of Luke Perry teach us about stroke? Elizabeth Tracey reports Luke Perry’s recent death from a sudden stroke was shocking, especially in light of his age. At 52, Perry was not in a risk category for such an event. Patricia Davidson, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of […]

Anchor lead: When people have advanced cancers, a close look at preventive medicines is needed, Elizabeth Tracey reports When people have advanced cancers, the average number of medicines they’re taking for things like cholesterol lowering and other preventive strategies actually increase in the last year of life, a recent study found. William Nelson, director of […]

Anchor lead: Removing lymph nodes may not help in advanced ovarian cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer cells can spread in the body by hitching a ride in lymph nodes, so removing them during surgery for cancer has always seemed like a good strategy. Now a new study looking at so called lymph node dissection in […]