Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Increasing rates of obesity and severe obesity may presage increased rates of heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Apr 2026

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The good news is heart failure in people with severe obesity may be reversible with common weight loss drugs. The bad news is both obesity, with BMIs ...

Is there another benefit besides weight loss of GLP-1s in people with severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Apr 2026

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GLP-1 receptor agonists are effective in helping most people lose weight, and now a new study suggests that in those with severe obesity, a BMI of 42 ...

Can GLP-1 agonists help in heart failure and severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Apr 2026

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There’s a relationship between severe obesity and one type of heart failure, and it looks like it’s mediated by adding more phosphate groups, a pr...

What is severe obesity doing to the heart muscle’s ability to contract? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Apr 2026

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Severe obesity may impede the ability of units inside heart muscle cells called sarcomeres to contract, and losing weight may reverse that condition. ...

How is obesity related to a common form of heart failure? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Apr 2026

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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, so-called HFpEF, is happening more frequently, especially in those with severe obesity. David Kass, a ...

A model of your brain may one day be grown in a lab, Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Apr 2026

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Brain organoids, collections of cells found in the brain, have been grown from blood samples of people with Alzheimer’s disease and used to assess t...

What can be learned from what cells dispose of? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Apr 2026

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Extracellular vesicles are membrane bound packages cells use to jettison materials from inside the cell, a sort of trash can. Johns Hopkins genetic me...

Brain organoids can resemble specific parts of the brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Apr 2026

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What might a model of the hindbrain, which helps control functions like sleep, breathing and heart rate, tell us about using a common depression drug ...

Can drugs to manage Alzheimer’s disease be tested in organoids? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Apr 2026

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Drugs to manage symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease may work in some people but not in others. Now a new method using brain organoids, which are derived...

Can brain organoids help in treating people with Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Apr 2026

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Brain organoids are lab grown clusters of cells that have several of the cell types found in someone’s brain. Cells taken from a person’s blood ar...

Cancer Headlines With William Nelson, Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

01 Apr 2026

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Medicaid reductions may impact screening for cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

28 Mar 2026

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Medicaid reductions being rolled out this year are poised to dramatically reduce cancer screening for millions, a new study estimates. William Nelson,...

Should breast cancer screening be targeted to those at greatest risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

28 Mar 2026

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Breast cancer screening is associated with false positives, where women are referred for further assessments and procedures that may be unnecessary. D...

Can older people with cancer benefit from telephone based contact? Elizabeth Tracey reports

28 Mar 2026

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People who were older and had advanced cancers benefited from a telephone-based intervention designed to regularly assess their symptoms and refer the...

Good news on cancer survival! Elizabeth Tracey reports

28 Mar 2026

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Seventy percent of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States will still be alive five years later, the American Cancer Society reports. Willia...

There’s good news regarding survival when cancer if found, Elizabeth Tracey reports

28 Mar 2026

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American Cancer Society data find that the majority of people who are diagnosed with cancers of all types will still be alive five years later. Johns ...

Who is at risk to develop PICS? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Mar 2026

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PICS stands for post intensive care syndrome, and it is characterized by a number of physical and mental health conditions that may follow someone’s...

What can be done about PICS? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Mar 2026

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Physical and mental health issues can follow a stay in an intensive care unit, a condition known as PICS, for post intensive care syndrome. Rohan Math...

How can you tell if PICS is present? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Mar 2026

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When someone has survived an intensive care unit stay, they may experience a host of challenges to their wellbeing known collectively as post intensiv...

What kinds of issues may remain after someone has been in an intensive care unit? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Mar 2026

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PICS stands for post intensive care syndrome, and recent data indicate that perhaps the majority of people who’ve been hospitalized in an ICU will h...

What is post-intensive care syndrome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Mar 2026

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Once you’ve made it through a stay in an intensive care unit, you can simply move forward in your life, right? Not exactly, as recent research indic...

There’s a new technique that may revolutionize one type of T cell therapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports

11 Mar 2026

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Maybe you’ve heard of CAR-T cells, a type of cell you have in your body that is supercharged in a lab and put back in to fight things like cancer. B...

Can an injectable particle help supercharge your T cells? Elizabeth Tracey reports

11 Mar 2026

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CAR-T cells are a type of immune cell that have proven very effective for treating some types of cancer, yet limitations to their use exist. Biomedica...

Can an mRNA containing particle help direct your T cells to specific targets? Elizabeth Tracey reports

11 Mar 2026

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Using polyester to wrap mRNA to create an injectable particle may soon enable targeting of your T cells to fight some cancers and autoimmune diseases....

Temporary changes to T cells may empower new treatments for cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

11 Mar 2026

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Let’s say I take one type of immune cell from your blood, grow it in a lab and use a virus to cause changes in that cell so it recognizes cancer. Th...

Messenger RNA can be used to stimulate T cells to fight cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

11 Mar 2026

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Put together a shelf-stable particle with a polyester shell, a homing mechanism, and mRNA instructions, and what do you have? A new technology that ma...

Trust but verify may be needed for pulse oximeters, Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Mar 2026

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With several studies saying oxygen measurements are too low and one saying they’re too high, how much can pulse oximeters be trusted in those with d...

How do we account for opposite results from studies on pulse oximeters? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Mar 2026

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Critical care medicine relies on pulse oximeters, which estimate oxygen levels in someone’s blood, for many decisions regarding their care. Studies ...

What does a recent FDA funded study on pulse oximeters show? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Mar 2026

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Do devices that measure oxygen levels in blood, known as pulse oximeters, measure too high or too low in those with darker skin? That’s the question...

Data from pulse oximeters can really impact patient care, Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Mar 2026

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If you are a person with darker skin should you be worried about the levels of oxygen in your blood a pulse oximeter is giving? Critical care expert R...

What is up with pulse oximeters? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Mar 2026

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Do the devices known as pulse oximeters, which measure the amount of oxygen in someone’s blood, underestimate or overestimate this value in people w...

Will brain training data change policy when it comes to Alzheimer’s prevention? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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Cognitive speed training using a computer to generate images and accelerate task completion was able to reduce the likelihood that an older person wou...

One type of brain training seems to be important in reducing Alzheimer’s disease risk, Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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A novel study has shown that training the brain with cognitive speed training seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Johns Hopkins Alzheim...

Can cognitive speed training make your brain more connected? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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If you were asked to learn a computer based task that would require an hour twice a week for six weeks, and it was something you would largely have to...

How can we account for why cognitive speed training seems to reduce Alzheimer’s risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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Working with images on a computer screen on a task that gets faster and more complex may reduce one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by 25...

How does learning by yourself compare with instruction when it comes to preserving brain function? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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When you have to teach yourself a task and adapt to having that task speed up, that’s one type of learning used in a study assessing different types...

Does having to figure things out on your own protect your brain better than other kinds of activities? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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People who received memory and reasoning training or those who didn’t receive any brain training were more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s...

What exactly is cognitive speed training? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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Among a cohort of 2800 people, those who received cognitive speed training compared to usual care or memory and reasoning training we less likely to b...

If you’re looking to preserve brain health doing cognitive speed training may be best, Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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If you’re like many people you’d rather not develop dementia, so a new study demonstrating the benefits of a computer based intervention called co...

What does 20 years of follow up tell us about activities to protect the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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Cognitive speed training, where a computer is used to present an image and require tasks based on images that speeds up, resulted in fewer dementia di...

Is it possible to make personal changes to stave off dementia and preserve independence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Feb 2026

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Showing someone a visual task on a computer and then speeding things up so they must complete it faster and faster preserves brain function better tha...

What is an assembloid? Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Feb 2026

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Brain organoids, cell collections grown in a lab to study diseases like Alzheimer’s, have created excitement because they are a bit more representat...

What is an organoid? Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Feb 2026

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Using induced stem cells helps create models for diseases like Alzheimer’s disease that can be studied in a lab, but now three dimensional cell coll...

How do stem cells derived from blood differ from those from embryos? Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Feb 2026

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Stem cells used to be derived from human embryos, but not anymore. Now a simple blood test can allow stem cells to be induced from cells found there, ...

Stem cells are just the beginning when it comes to modeling your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Feb 2026

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Cells from your blood can be induced to return to what they looked like when you were an embryo, then can be made to develop into different cell types...

What might reprogramming cells have to do with understanding Alzheimer’s? Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Feb 2026

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A simple blood test may soon help precisely identify your risk for Alzheimer’s disease by inducing some of your cells to go back in time, looking li...

A couple new approaches to treating a type of leukemia may help shorten treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports

18 Jan 2026

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Using one of two drug combinations versus ibrutinib alone to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia, one of the most common types of leukemia in adults, m...

Can the drug celecoxib help some people avoid colorectal cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

18 Jan 2026

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For people who’ve had colorectal cancer, celecoxib, a commonly prescribed medicine for pain, may help avoid disease recurrence, a recent analysis of...

Since most cervical cancer is caused by infection with a virus, when should screening start? Elizabeth Tracey reports

18 Jan 2026

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Women may now choose to collect their own samples to test for human papilloma virus, or HPV as part of their screening regimen for cervical cancer, th...

Will women soon be testing themselves for human papilloma virus, or HPV ? Elizabeth Tracey reports

18 Jan 2026

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The American Cancer Society has updated guidelines for cervical cancer screening to include self-collected specimens to assess for human papilloma vir...

As cancer cases in younger people rise, do they all need treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

18 Jan 2026

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Cancers of several types are being diagnosed more often in those younger than fifty years of age, and no one really understands why. Because there are...

If you learn you have cancer would you be comfortable not treating it? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Jan 2026

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Rates of eight different types of cancer are increasing in those aged 50 and younger, new data reveal, and while researchers are struggling to identif...

Cancers increasing among those younger than fifty warrant investigation to discern causes, Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Jan 2026

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Eight different cancers are increasing among those younger than fifty in the US, data since 1992 indicate. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Canc...

What factors do we know are related to the development of childhood allergies? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Jan 2026

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Following 125,000 children as they began to eat a wider variety of foods from infancy seems to show that early introduction of peanut helped many avoi...

What’s the best strategy to avoid food allergies in young children? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Jan 2026

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Early exposure to peanut is credited with reducing the development of peanut allergy in young children, a recent study concludes, but Robert Wood, a c...

Should you feed your young child peanut to prevent allergy? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Jan 2026

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Early introduction of peanut into a child’s diet may help them avoid development of peanut allergy, a recent study concludes. Robert Wood, a childho...

Can a new test help those at risk to develop ALS? Elizabeth Tracey reports

22 Dec 2025

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A new test may identify ALS up to a decade before symptoms appear, research by Alex Pantelyat, a movement disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, and colle...

Looking retrospectively at blood samples allows researchers to spot ALS, Elizabeth Tracey reports

22 Dec 2025

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Testing hundreds of blood samples collected years ago allowed researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere to create a panel of proteins that point to t...

A new blood test may spot ALS years before symptoms emerge, Elizabeth Tracey reports

22 Dec 2025

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ALS is a diagnosis no one wants to hear. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, the condition robs a person of the ability to control their muscles, an...

How do we ensure safety with medical apps? Elizabeth Tracey reports

22 Dec 2025

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A smartphone app helped people with prediabetes improve their lifestyles as much as a human led diabetes prevention program, research from Nas Mathiou...

An app to help people manage prediabetes helps, and there’s room for improvement, Elizabeth Tracey reports

22 Dec 2025

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Prediabetes can be controlled with multiple lifestyle interventions to avoid development of diabetes, and an app helps. That’s according to research...

Are apps the answer when it comes to diabetes prevention? Elizabeth Tracey reports

15 Dec 2025

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Using a number of AI driven prompts, a new app helped people with prediabetes make  several lifestyle changes to improve their blood sugar. ...

Would you respond to an app to make changes in your lifestyle? Elizabeth Tracey reports

15 Dec 2025

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Prediabetes can be controlled and diabetes avoided with use of an AI driven app, a new study by Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, ...

A new smartphone app can help avoid development of diabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports

15 Dec 2025

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An AI driven app helped people with prediabetes avoid development of diabetes as well as human-led coaching, a study by Johns Hopkins diabetes expert ...

Monitoring blood sugar is important when you’ve been told you have prediabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports

15 Dec 2025

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Diabetes is known to cause increased risk for cardiovascular disease and many other health issues, so if you’ve been told you have prediabetes it’...

Can you avoid developing diabetes if you have prediabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports

15 Dec 2025

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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 yo...

Diabetes prevention programs may be utilized more with an AI approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Dec 2025

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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 expe...

People with prediabetes can benefit from an AI based diabetes prevention program, Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Dec 2025

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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, ...

How does AI stack up against human provided diabetes prevention programs? Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Dec 2025

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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 pr...

How might very detailed cancer maps inform cancer management and treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Dec 2025

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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 N...

What is an ultrasensitive DNA test in cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Dec 2025

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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...

Cancer Headlines With William Nelson

01 Dec 2025

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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...

If you’re pregnant or considering pregnancy, should you take acetaminophen? Elizabeth Tracey reports

17 Nov 2025

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Federal officials have suggested that use of acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase the risk for autism in offspring. Heather Volk, an autism exp...

Is acetaminophen use during pregnancy associated with autism in offspring? Elizabeth Tracey reports

17 Nov 2025

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Do women who take acetaminophen during pregnancy risk autism in their offspring? Autism expert Heather Volk at Johns Hopkins says one likely explanati...

A certain type of air pollutant seems to be linked to brain abnormalities, Elizabeth Tracey reports

17 Nov 2025

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PM 2.5 stands for particulate matter 2.5 microns or less, and this category of air pollutant may well be involved in autism risk as well as cognitive ...

Can air pollution impact on autism? Elizabeth Tracey reports

17 Nov 2025

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A new study points to chemicals called PFAS in possibly underpinning autism development. Autism expert Heather Volk at Johns Hopkins says another envi...

PFAS exposure during pregnancy may cause changes in the developing brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports

17 Nov 2025

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Chemicals abbreviated PFAS have been used for some time in things like nonstick cookware, and almost all of us have measurable levels of them in our b...

Do the environmental pollutants PFAS have any impact on development of autism? Elizabeth Tracey reports

10 Nov 2025

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PFAS are chemicals that were used in things like nonstick cookware or stain resistant fabrics, and they’ve been implicated in a number of deleteriou...

Many vaccines are intended to reduce disease severity, Elizabeth Tracey reports

10 Nov 2025

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Covid vaccines boosted the immune response in people being treated for cancer and improved their survival, a recent study concludes. mRNA expert Jeff ...

Why were so many people hesitant to take mRNA vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

10 Nov 2025

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mRNA vaccines can help the body fight cancer, a new study found, yet when we look at what has been called ‘vaccine hesitancy’ we see many people a...

What is it about mRNA vaccines that helps us fight cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

10 Nov 2025

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People with lung cancer and melanoma who were receiving immunotherapies and got a Covid vaccine saw dramatically improved survival compared with folks...

Why haven’t we seen cancer fighting effects with vaccines other than the Covid vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

10 Nov 2025

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People undergoing immunotherapy treatment for cancer and who got a Covid vaccine survived longer than those who did not get the vaccine, a new study f...

mRNA could comprise a generic vaccine to be used for cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

03 Nov 2025

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If you were being treated for lung cancer or melanoma with immunotherapy and you received a Covid vaccine, you got a surprising benefit: you were twic...

The benefit of mRNA vaccines in cancer treatment is ongoing, Elizabeth Tracey reports

03 Nov 2025

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People with lung cancer or melanoma who were receiving immunotherapy and got a Covid vaccine within 100 days of initiating treatment saw dramatically ...

mRNA vaccines take advantage of the body’s own systems, Elizabeth Tracey reports

03 Nov 2025

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Combating cancer may soon include immunization with an mRNA vaccine, as studies accumulate demonstrating their benefit in revving up the immune system...

Might mRNA vaccines replace chemotherapy for cancer treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

03 Nov 2025

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Receipt of an mRNA vaccine for Covid within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy for lung cancer or melanoma increased a person’s survival likelihood...

Can mRNA vaccines treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

03 Nov 2025

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mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now a new study points to their effectiveness in helping people survive cancer. Th...

Can a new test of cerebrospinal fluid be used for many diseases of the brain and spinal cord? Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 Oct 2025

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Testing a fluid known as cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, found surrounding the brain and spinal cord, reveals a lot about brain tumors and the immune res...

Cerebrospinal fluid may hold the keys to brain cancer identification and treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 Oct 2025

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Tumor components and immune response indicators can be found in cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, when someone has a brain tumor, in a new test developed b...

What does your immune response have to do with brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 Oct 2025

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Your immune system has everything to do with how your body responds to cancer, and brain tumors are no exception. A new test aims to assess that along...

Cerebrospinal fluid can tell lots about brain tumors, Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 Oct 2025

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Your brain and spinal cord are floating in something called cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, and when brain tumors develop they shed cells and cellular co...

Can assessments of brain cancers be done with cerebrospinal fluid? Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 Oct 2025

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When someone is thought to have a brain tumor procedures to make the diagnosis may be risky or invasive, so a new test developed by Chetan Bettegowda,...

When you have screening colonoscopy should you worry about the endoscopist’s skills? Elizabeth Tracey reports

20 Oct 2025

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AI assisted colonoscopy, where a computer helped interpret images seen during the procedure, resulted in endoscopists being less adept at recognizing ...

Small risks of recurrent breast cancer may exist after treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports

20 Oct 2025

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If you’ve been treated for early breast cancer your overall risk for recurrence is small, a new large, long term study finds. William Nelson, direct...

Most women who’ve had early breast cancer are not at high risk for recurrence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

20 Oct 2025

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Women who’ve had early breast cancer and been treated can likely lay their worries about recurrence to rest, a new study concludes. Johns Hopkins Ki...

Aspirin may be of benefit in a number of cancers, Elizabeth Tracey reports

20 Oct 2025

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People who’ve had colorectal cancer and have a known mutation should likely take aspirin to help prevent disease recurrence, according to a new stud...

What is the benefit of asprin in reducing colorectal cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

20 Oct 2025

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People who’ve had colorectal cancer and who have a mutation known as  PI3 kinase benefit from taking asprin to prevent recurrence, a new s...

Care should be taken when using CT in kids, Elizabeth Tracey reports

13 Oct 2025

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Transcript Using CT scanning in children should be limited, a recent study concludes, finding that about one in ten cancers in kids were likely relate...

What is the cancer risk posed by CT scans in kids? Elizabeth Tracey reports

13 Oct 2025

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CT scans in children, especially those that image bones where bone marrow is found, increase the risk for certain cancers, a new study finds. And the ...

Will RNA based tests form the basis for cancer screening and monitoring? Elizabeth Tracey reports

13 Oct 2025

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RNA is easier to detect and points toward cancer activity better than DNA testing, a recent study concludes. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center direct...