Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Anchor lead: A treatment for Alzheimer’s disease seems to offer modest benefit, Elizabeth Tracey reports A drug that’s been under investigation for some time has finally produced some modest benefit in removing the substance called amyloid from the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and improving their cognition, a recent study found. Constantine Lyketsos, an […]

Anchor lead: While the nation is focused on opioids, other drugs are also causing overdoses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Heroin is leading the headlines these days when it comes to drug overdoses, especially now that so much of it also contains fentanyl. The latest data from the CDC indicates that 72,000 people died last year of […]

Anchor lead: New CDC data estimate many more opioid deaths than previously thought, Elizabeth Tracey reports 72,000. That’s the number of deaths related to drug overdoses in the United States in 2017, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state. That represents a 10% increase from the previous year, and […]

Anchor lead: Does using epinephrine help when people experience a heart attack outside the hospital? Elizabeth Tracey reports The hormone epinephrine is often used by paramedics to restart the heart in people who’ve experienced an out of hospital cardiac arrest. Now a new study demonstrates that while more of those folks survive, they are more […]

Anchor lead: Helping control fertility may be one key to managing climate change, Elizabeth Tracey reports More natural disasters, deaths due to extreme heat, expanded territories for disease carrying insects, these are just a few of the consequences of climate change impacting health. Travis Rieder, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, have published a […]

Anchor lead: Are cured meats in the diet associated with mental illness? Elizabeth Tracey reports People hospitalized with an episode of mania, one feature of bipolar disorder, ate more cured meats than those without the illness, a recent study by Robert Yolken and colleagues at Johns Hopkins found. Seva Khambadkone, an MD/PhD candidate at Hopkins, […]

Anchor lead: Cured meats may be linked to the mania phase of bipolar disorder, Elizabeth Tracey reports   People who are hospitalized for mania are more than three times as likely to have consumed cured meats, which are high in nitrates, than those without the psychiatric disorder, research by Robert Yolken, a professor of neurovirology […]

Anchor lead: A protein known as YAP may be important in both cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Can inhibiting a protein known by the shorthand YAP help improve the effectiveness of immunotherapies against cancer? Yes, if results in animal models hold up in the clinic, a study by Fan Tan, a cancer immunology […]

Anchor lead: Blood transfusions increase someone’s risk for blood clots, but there are strategies in place to minimize risk, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood transfusions around the time of surgery increase someone’s risk of aberrant blood clots twofold, a study by Aaron Tobian and colleagues at Johns Hopkins has shown. Tobian’s previous study showed that a […]

Anchor lead: Having a blood transfusion around the time of surgery may lead to blood clots, Elizabeth Tracey reports Abnormal blood clotting known as venous thromboembolism can be a killer, if the clot travels to the brain, heart or lungs. Now a study by Aaron Tobian, a transfusion expert at Johns Hopkins, pinpoints just how […]