Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

The medical establishment took on fats as problematic in the 1960s, with the result that food manufacturers switched to sugars and refined carbs instead, and the obesity epidemic ensued. Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary says obesity is just one result, …

How have diet trends over the last couple of decades impacted health? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

The food pyramid was supposed to visually demonstrate how best to nourish our bodies, but instead it vilified many fats and precipitated a wholesale shift to carbohydrates, many of them refined. And then the obesity epidemic began. That’s the reconstruction …

Our obesity epidemic is rooted in medicine’s inability to take a broader view, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

There’s a new medicine to manage hot flashes, which many women identify as the most troubling aspect of menopause, a recent study reports. Yet Marty Makary, a surgeon and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins, says for many, effective treatment …

What is the role for a new medicine in managing menopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Diabetes is out of control, along with obesity, mental health disorders, and rising rates of many cancers. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and author of a book called ‘Blind Spots,” argues that it is the impaired vision of …

What does a wholistic approach have to do with health? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Where are the blind spots when it comes to the practice of medicine? Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary, author of a new book entitled ‘Blind Spots,” says they are too numerous to identify individually. Makary: We have massive blind spots …

It’s time for medicine at large to look at whole people instead of diseases and conditions, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Early in life antibiotic use may disrupt the microbiome in children and lead to long term health consequences, and this is one of medicine’s blind spots. That’s according to Johns Hopkins surgeon and public health researcher Marty Makary, in his …

Could early life antibiotic use be associated with chronic disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Blind Spots is the name of a new book by Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and public health researcher, illustrating how medicine sometimes gets it wrong and then seems unable to reverse the tide of established treatments and …

Where are the blind spots in medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Burgeoning research demonstrates that smartphone use in schools is detrimental to individual students and corrosive for the learning environment. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and public health researcher, says attempts to simply limit their use are not enough. …

Does the argument that limiting smartphone use works hold water? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Should we allow a technology that’s at best disruptive and at worst addictive into our schools? No, states Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and public health researcher, citing smartphones as a scourge that has no place in educational facilities, …

Some schools have already banned smartphones in students’ interest, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Smartphones are ubiquitous, with over half of US children owning one by the time they are 11 years of age. Much research is emerging demonstrating just how harmful this can be, especially when phones remain in the hands of kids …

Should smartphones even be allowed in schools? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »