Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Engineering may help older adults simply live better, Elizabeth Tracey reports A bioengineering approach to rehabilitation may soon help older folks who’ve experienced events like falls return to their previous level of functioning faster and better, but may also provide a host of assessments and interventions to help in daily life. That’s according […]

Anchor lead: What is ketamine’s role in treating depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ketamine is in the news lately, with physicians opening clinics nationally to administer the drug to treat depression. Irving Reti, a depression expert at Johns Hopkins, says that right now, such use is so-called ‘off label,’ meaning the FDA has not yet approved […]

Anchor lead: How useful is transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS for short, utilizes magnetic waves to stimulate a specific area of the brain and may be helpful in treating depression, with a new coil design recently approved by the FDA. Irving Reti, a depression expert at […]

Anchor lead: Education helps make sure people receive medicines to prevent blood clots, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clot prevention is extremely important in hospitalized persons, but more than 10% of the time doses of medicines to prevent them are missed. Now a new education effort developed by Elliott Haut, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins, […]

Anchor lead: Why do patients in the hospital refuse blood clot prevention medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clots are a big problem for hospitalized patients, and can result in death. Yet in more than one in ten circumstances medicines to help prevent blood clot formation aren’t given. Elliott Haut, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins, […]

Anchor lead: How can technology help support people to age as well as possible? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can engineering technologies enable help older people age in place? That’s one hope of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at Johns Hopkins. Gregory Hager, director of the center, highlights one issue addressed at the recent ‘Engineering […]

Anchor lead: One of the biggest barriers for some people with chronic illness is access to care, Elizabeth Tracey reports ‘Social determinants of health’ is one of the most used buzz-phrases currently, identifying someone’s social factors as primary in determining health outcomes. Now a Johns Hopkins program called J-CHiP, led by Scott Berkowitz, provides more […]

Anchor lead: What is the current state of being able to detect cancer with a so-called liquid biopsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports When a cancer is suspected a biopsy, where a piece of the tumor is retrieved using a needle or another surgical technique, is frequently needed, and may have to be done again if the […]

Anchor lead: A comprehensive approach to healthcare benefits all, Elizabeth Tracey reports A program known as J-ChiP, for Johns Hopkins Community Partnership, not only saves millions of dollars in healthcare costs for people with chronic illness, it creates an entire community of caring around them. That’s according to Scott Berkowitz, the study’s lead author. Berkowitz: […]

Anchor lead: Efforts to reduce ED crowding don’t seem to be helping, Elizabeth Tracey reports Emergency departments are more crowded than ever, with some patients waiting many hours to be seen, a recent study concluded. Patricia Davidson, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, says for some, that’s the only way they know to […]