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Prediabetes is a condition where your blood sugar is higher than it should be, but not high enough to be called diabetes, and if you’ve been told you have it you can take steps to avoid transitioning to diabetes. That’s …

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Heather Watson, nurse scientist for the Johns Hopkins Health System, interviews Kayla Van Boxtel and Christy Richter, two participants in the Nurse Scholar Fellowship, the Center for Nursing Inquiry’s program designed to build nursing expertise in inquiry work. Kayla and …

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People who have prediabetes frequently go on to develop diabetes, but diabetes prevention programs or DPPs can help. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one developer of an AI based DPP, explains what’s at stake. Nestoras Mathioudakis: …

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Diabetes prevention programs or DPPs were developed by the CDC over a decade ago to help people with prediabetes avoid frank development of diabetes, but very few people access them. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one …

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For people with the condition called prediabetes, prevention to full blown diabetes is key. Over a decade ago the CDC developed diabetes prevention programs or DPPs to help but very few people access them. Now a new AI based DPP …

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Have you heard of ultrasensitive genetic testing for cancer? This method produces a very detailed characterization of someone’s tumor, and William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says it then may be used for subsequent decision …

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The genetic makeup of a cancer is quite different than that of the person who has it, and now new efforts to very specifically characterize the cancer are poised to have surveillance and treatment implications. That’s according to Kimmel Cancer …

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This month's topics include medical imaging and childhood cancers, low dose aspirin in colorectal cancer, AI and colonoscopy skills, and good news for women with early breast cancer.

Obtaining human organs for transplantation is largely managed by UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, and it’s a not for profit enterprise. Yet Adam Schiavi, a neuro critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, says if current political forces have …

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Does the organ transplantation system in the US need reform? That’s the agenda of a disgruntled family member whose relative waited years for a transplant, in testimony before Congress, but Adam Schiavi, a neuro critical care expert at Johns Hopkins, …

Allowing the market to dictate organ transplantation increases inequity, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →