Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Perhaps you recall from high school biology that you have 23 pairs of chromosomes. A Johns Hopkins study has shown that one arm of chromosome one, the biggest chromosome, is often copied many times in pancreas cancer, and that part …

Can too many copies of a gene drive pancreas cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

About one in five adolescents have cholesterol levels that are too high, and that’s why new guidelines from the American College of Cardiology specify testing children 9 to 11 years of age. Johns Hopkins cardiologist Seth Martin, one of the …

Why do kids 9-11 years of age need a cholesterol test? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Did you know that one in five adolescents have cholesterol levels that are too high, some of them very high indeed? Those at the highest levels may have a genetic disorder called familial hypercholesterolemia, and when it’s caught early it …

There’s a very good reason to test preadolescents’ cholesterol levels, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Your preadolescent child should have their blood drawn to test their cholesterol levels, new guidelines from the American College of Cardiology specify. That’s because of a condition that happens in one in 250 people where such levels are abnormally high …

There’s a test your adolescent should have to help avoid cardiovascular disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Familial hypercholesterolemia is just what it sounds like: abnormally high cholesterol levels that run in families due to their genetics. Turns out these very high cholesterol levels begin in infancy, and unless someone is suspicious, are rarely tested for. That’s …

Even kids who appear very healthy can have very high cholesterol levels, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

A new clinical guideline to manage cholesterol levels in the blood has been released by the American College of Cardiology. Johns Hopkins cardiologist Seth Martin participated in writing the guidelines and says that shifting risk assessment and management strategies for …

New cholesterol screening guidelines capture childhood risk, too, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

When it comes to slowing down cognitive decline in those with early Alzheimer’s disease a total package of lifestyle interventions is superior to currently available medications, a study by Johns Hopkins neurologist Majid Fotuhi has shown. Fotuhi and colleagues had …

Does a program exist to implement comprehensive lifestyle changes to preserve cognitive function? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

If you have mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer’s disease, changes in lifestyle are more likely to provide benefit to your cognitive capacity than available medicines, a study by Johns Hopkins neurologist Majid Fotuhi shows. Fotuhi says this is largely …

How exactly do lifestyle interventions benefit brain health? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Lifestyle interventions are more effective than medications in early Alzheimer’s disease, a study led by Majid Fotuhi, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins, has found. When a number of trials were analyzed together, implementation of several lifestyle changes emerged as superior …

Comprehensive lifestyle changes impact wellbeing in those with early Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Declines of several fold in rates of progression- sounds pretty good, doesn’t it, if you have the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease and are considering available medications. Yet a recent study by Johns Hopkins neurologist Majid Fotuhi finds that those …

How is it that medications to treat Alzheimer’s disease appear to show such a benefit? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →