Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: Can we tell even in teenagers who may be at risk for dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports Project Talent may be one of the biggest studies you’ve never heard of, testing teenagers in the 1960s and now looking at their rates of dementia. Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s disease expert at Johns Hopkins, wonders at […]

Anchor lead: Can a finding in gambling monkeys help people control risk taking behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports A specific brain area has been shown to impact a trained monkey’s risk-taking choices, a Johns Hopkins study reveals. Veit Stuphorn, a neuroscientist and senior author, says the finding may ultimately lead to effective treatments for compulsive behaviors, […]

Anchor lead: A new study in monkeys helps understand risk taking behavior, Elizabeth Tracey reports Training monkeys to gamble has identified a new brain region involved in the actual process of choosing to take risks, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found. Veit Stuphorn, associate professor of neuroscience, says the results were really novel. Stuphorn: We […]

Anchor lead: Taking a look at all the genes in tuberculosis can help design more effective treatments, Elizabeth Tracey reports A look at genes, mutations, and resistance to drugs in tuberculosis bacteria published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine should help design better diagnostic tests and lead to more efficacious treatments. That’s according […]

Anchor lead: TB vaccines are needed for the minority of people who can’t fight the infection off, Elizabeth Tracey reports Most people are capable of fighting off tuberculosis infection on their own, but now a new vaccine offers hope to those who don’t have the ability, a recent study in the New England Journal of […]

Anchor lead: A new vaccine against tuberculosis brings hope, Elizabeth Tracey reports A new tuberculosis vaccine protects about 50% of the people who receive it from contracting the infection, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found. Richard Chaisson, a TB expert at Johns Hopkins, says this is actually very hopeful news. […]

Anchor lead: If you’re at increased risk for a cardiovascular event, statins may be your best prevention strategy, Elizabeth Tracey reports In the wake of the ASPREE trial, where daily aspirin in healthy older folks didn’t reduce cardiovascular disease but did increase the risk of death compared to the no aspirin group, people taking aspirin […]

Anchor lead: Is there anyone who still should use aspirin daily? Elizabeth Tracey reports A daily aspirin didn’t help reduce cardiovascular events in healthy older people, a recent large study called ASPREE found. Erin Michos, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins, says there is still a role for aspirin in prevention of another cardiovascular event in […]

Anchor lead: A large study using aspirin in healthy older people increased their risk of cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Healthy elderly people given daily aspirin in a study known by the acronym ASPREE didn’t have fewer cardiovascular events, but they did have higher death rates than those not taking the drug, including an increased risk […]

Anchor lead: How can we promote genetic testing among close relatives of those with cancer-related mutations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cascade testing is a strategy for testing close relatives of someone with a known mutation for cancer, with a new study showing that if the price was lower, more people would come forward to be testing. […]