Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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 »

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 »

An engineered type of T cell known as a CAR-T can be very beneficial for people with some types of cancer, yet a major cause of death among those who receive them is infection, a recent study finds. Kimmel Cancer …

CAR-T therapy for cancer is associated with risk for infectious disease death, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Skin cancers run the gamut from relatively benign basal cell carcinoma to invasive melanoma. In between are squamous cell carcinomas, which are increasing in frequency and likely result in death more often than melanomas do, a new paper asserts, calling …

Squamous cell skin cancer needs more rigorous study, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Many women who had both breasts removed when cancer was found in one really didn’t experience any benefit from doing so, with similar rates of recurrence and death to women who chose more conservative treatment, a recent study finds. Johns …

Who should have both breasts removed when cancer is found in one? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

 Three groups of women, all with breast cancer in one breast, participated in a recent study looking at whether removing both breasts when cancer is found in one, so-called prophylactic bilateral mastectomy, was effective in reducing a woman’s risk. Kimmel …

What does a study on removing both breasts when cancer is found in one tell us? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Bilateral mastectomy as a means of preventing cancer in the other breast when it is found in one breast may not be of benefit when it comes to reccurence or survival, a new study shows. William Nelson, director of the …

Does removing both breasts when cancer is found in one help? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »