Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

The most important person in reducing your risk for cardiovascular disease is you, and managing your blood cholesterol levels is just one part of an overall, lifelong strategy, beginning with becoming educated about your own unique set of risk factors. …

Becoming educated about your own cardiovascular risk is pivotal to prevention, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Management of blood cholesterol is a major factor in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, as reflected in new guidelines released by the American College of Cardiology, and it should start early in life and be monitored throughout the lifespan. Johns …

Monitoring cholesterol and other factors should be done regularly to prevent cardiovascular disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

When it comes to ideal LDL cholesterol levels in the blood, ideal is a bit of a moving target. Johns Hopkins cardiologist Roger Blumenthal, chair of an American College of Cardiology committee that has just updated cholesterol guidelines, says it …

What LDL cholesterol level should you be aiming for? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

If you’ve been told you have high LDL cholesterol in your blood, the first place to begin to try to improve it is with diet and exercise. That’s according to new guidelines from the American College of Cardiology, and such …

The first strategy to improve blood cholesterol levels in lifestyle management, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

A quarter of US adults have elevated levels of LDL, the type of cholesterol in the blood most often associated with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Now the American College of Cardiology has issued new guidelines for managing cholesterol, last updated …

New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology for cholesterol guidelines are here, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Depending on your media exposure you have likely seen commercials or advertisements for cancer detection tests that look for markers of the disease in your blood. Now a new study examines these tests and determines that they’re really not ready …

Should you have a commercially advertised cancer detection test? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Changes to DNA that are added on top of the baseline order of its building blocks are known as epigenetics, and these changes are implicated in a number of diseases and conditions, including pancreas cancer. Now a Johns Hopkins study …

Can epigenetics point the way to treatment for pancreas cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Certain bacteria commonly found in the gut produce toxins that promote breast cancer, a Johns Hopkins study shows. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins says there is a pathway where such an association makes sense. Nelson: When …

What do gut bacteria have to do with breast cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

There are too many copies of one arm of chromosome one in pancreas cancer, a Johns Hopkins study finds. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Hopkins, says the stage of tumor development where this finding was seen …

What does too many copies of a part of a chromosome in pancreas cancer tell us? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →