Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Cells from your blood can be induced to return to what they looked like when you were an embryo, then can be made to develop into different cell types in the brain. That happens in the lab of Vasiliki Machairaki, …

Stem cells are just the beginning when it comes to modeling your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

A simple blood test may soon help precisely identify your risk for Alzheimer’s disease by inducing some of your cells to go back in time, looking like they did when you were an embryo. Johns Hopkins cell engineering expert Vasiliki …

What might reprogramming cells have to do with understanding Alzheimer’s? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Using one of two drug combinations versus ibrutinib alone to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia, one of the most common types of leukemia in adults, may allow people to avoid continuous treatment, a new study finds.  William Nelson, director of the Kimmel …

A couple new approaches to treating a type of leukemia may help shorten treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

For people who’ve had colorectal cancer, celecoxib, a commonly prescribed medicine for pain, may help avoid disease recurrence, a recent analysis of a larger study found. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins explains that the presence of …

Can the drug celecoxib help some people avoid colorectal cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Women may now choose to collect their own samples to test for human papilloma virus, or HPV as part of their screening regimen for cervical cancer, the American Cancer Society now says. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns …

Since most cervical cancer is caused by infection with a virus, when should screening start? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

The American Cancer Society has updated guidelines for cervical cancer screening to include self-collected specimens to assess for human papilloma virus, or HPV. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, explains why. Nelson: There's 200,000 women …

Will women soon be testing themselves for human papilloma virus, or HPV ? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Cancers of several types are being diagnosed more often in those younger than fifty years of age, and no one really understands why. Because there are consequences to cancer treatment one question is do all these cancers need to be …

As cancer cases in younger people rise, do they all need treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Rates of eight different types of cancer are increasing in those aged 50 and younger, new data reveal, and while researchers are struggling to identify why, another question those diagnosed must answer is are they okay not treating it? That’s …

If you learn you have cancer would you be comfortable not treating it? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Eight different cancers are increasing among those younger than fifty in the US, data since 1992 indicate. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says thyroid, colorectal and endometrial or uterine are included in that number, …

Cancers increasing among those younger than fifty warrant investigation to discern causes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Following 125,000 children as they began to eat a wider variety of foods from infancy seems to show that early introduction of peanut helped many avoid development of peanut allergy, a recent study concluded. Robert Wood, a childhood allergy expert …

What factors do we know are related to the development of childhood allergies? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →