Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Just how involved is industry in clinical trials? Elizabeth Tracey reports The majority of later stage clinical trials, aimed to bring new drugs, devices and vaccines to market, have industry involvement in study design and authorship along with their academic affiliations, a recent study in the British Medical Journal reported. Paul Rothman, dean […]

Anchor lead: Even paying people to make more healthful choices may not work, Elizabeth Tracey reports Paying people who are at risk to develop diabetes, are overweight or who smoke cigarettes to make lifestyle changes to reduce their health risks didn’t work, a recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine found. Patricia Davidson, dean of the […]

Anchor lead: Medication may help people with cancer avoid blood clots, Elizabeth Tracey reports Apixiban is the name of an anti-blood clotting medicine that’s been used for some time in people with heart disease. Now a new study shows it can help people with some types of cancer avoid blood clots. William Nelson, director of […]

Anchor lead: Opioids really aren’t always best when it comes to pain, Elizabeth Tracey reports When it comes to pain treatment, opioid medications are best, right? Wrong, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. The study found that for pain that is not related to cancer, opioids may not be […]

Anchor lead: What are the possibilities when it comes to medicines for addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports As deaths from opioids continue apace, figuring out how best to help people overcome addiction is more important than ever, with one recent study comparing the cost effectiveness of a monthly injection called naltrexone versus a combination daily oral […]

Anchor lead: The opioid addiction medicine naltrexone may work best when used in a monthly injection form, Elizabeth Tracey reports, but may be expensive What is the best medication to help people who are addicted to opioids stay off the drugs? There is a monthly injection called naltrexone, which interferes with the high people get […]

Anchor lead: Preventing infection with Mgen is the best way to avoid it, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mgen is shorthand for Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that can cause severe problems in women, including pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility, and for which there is currently no commercially available diagnostic test or effective treatment. And […]

Anchor lead: A new drug resistant sexually transmitted infection may be cause for alarm, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mycoplasma genitalium , or Mgen for short, is a bacterial infection transmitted sexually that’s being identified more and more often, at least when it is looked for. Maria Trent, a sexually transmitted infection or STI expert at Johns […]

Anchor lead: Should the antidote to opioids be prescribed along with the pain medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, should be prescribed along with the powerful pain relievers, many advocacy groups believe. Eric Strain, a drug abuse expert at Johns Hopkins, says such a strategy could be yet one […]

Anchor lead: Dry eye can be managed, Elizabeth Tracey reports Dry eye, a condition where tears fail to lubricate the eye properly, can result in slowed reading speeds and difficulty with visual tasks, a new study by Esen Akpek, an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Akpek says the good news is the […]