Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Women whose breast cancer has estrogen receptors are usually treated with estrogen depleting medicines, with the consequence that they have hot flashes and night sweats, so called ‘vasomotor symptoms,’ that many describe as worse than menopause. Now a new medicine …

There’s hope for women with breast cancer who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

CAR-T cells, a highly activated immune cell, have been used to treat a solid tumor, stomach cancer, for the first time. Yet the fact remains that CAR-Ts are expensive and time consuming to produce. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director …

CAR-T cells are an expensive form of cancer treatment, but other techniques may soon supplant them, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

For the first time CAR-T cells, a highly activated type of immune cell, have been used with some success to treat stomach cancer, a so-called solid tumor. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says solid …

Why has it been so hard to use CAR-T cells to treat solid tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

You’ve probably heard of CAR-T cells, a type of immune cells taken from someone’s body, grown up in a lab and trained to attack their cancer. CAR-Ts are known to be good for treating blood cancers like leukemia, and for …

Will solid tumors now be treated with CAR-T cells? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

When it comes to managing with the dog days of summer, air conditioning is very helpful, especially for people with chronic lung problems. Johns Hopkins lung health expert William Checkley says clean systems with filters that are regularly changed are …

Humidity may be as important as temperature when it comes to air conditioning, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

People with lung conditions like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, abbreviated COPD, rely on air conditioning in the summer to help keep their symptoms from getting much worse. William Checkley, a lung health expert at Johns Hopkins, says it’s …

If you don’t use AC properly you may make lung problems worse, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

If you have any respiratory issues you likely benefit from air conditioning when the weather is hot. Lung health expert William Checkley at Johns Hopkins says you must be aware of the system’s maintenance requirements to reap its benefits. Checkley: …

Proper AC maintenance is key to healthful use, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

For many people air conditioning is important for alleviating symptoms of chronic respiratory disease, but Johns Hopkins lung health expert William Checkley says it’s still necessary to be aware of how AC can impact on the function of your respiratory …

Sometimes air conditioning can compromise your respiratory health, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

As the northern hemisphere enters full summer, many people shut their windows and turn on the air conditioning, or AC. William Checkley, a lung health expert at Johns Hopkins, says as with many things in life, it’s important to have …

While AC is great at making us feel comfortable it’s also important for health, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Mismatch repair is just what it sounds like: when a cell divides and makes new DNA strands when a mistake is made it repairs them. Some types of cancers with a mismatch repair mutation may now be treated with an …

Different types of tumors with a specific mutation may not need surgery, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →