Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Can RNA provide a way to look for cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

13 Oct 2025

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Using blood tests to look for cancer and cancer recurrence has been an area of active research for some time now, with a new study pointing to RNA rat...

Mail in screening tests for colorectal cancer seem effective, Elizabeth Tracey reports

13 Oct 2025

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Most people should start screening for colorectal cancer at age 45, due to increasing rates of the disease in younger people. Now a new study examines...

Cancer Headlines for October 2025 With William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

13 Oct 2025

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How should we interpret rising cases of colorectal cancer in younger people? Elizabeth Tracey reports

06 Oct 2025

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Colorectal cancer is occurring more frequently in those in the forty to forty nine year old age group, leading to recommendations for screening earlie...

Can taking a supplement help you avoid recurrence of some skin cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports

06 Oct 2025

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Nicotinamide is one of a group of vitamins known as B vitamins, and it’s available over the counter. A new study shows that in people who’ve had e...

Why do certain microorganisms colonize your body? Elizabeth Tracey reports

06 Oct 2025

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Your microbiome, the host of organisms that live on and in you, are unique to you, with a new study showing that some types of bacteria and fungi may ...

Will you soon be asked to give a specimen to assess your microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

06 Oct 2025

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Certain bacteria resident on people’s bodies do confer an increased risk for pancreas cancer, a new study finds. William Nelson, director of the Kim...

What might your microbiome have to do with your cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

06 Oct 2025

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Your microbiome is the collection of microorganisms that live on you and in you, with a new study pointing to certain bacteria as increasing one’s r...

A new study shows shunting works for normal pressure hydrocephalus, Elizabeth Tracey reports

29 Sep 2025

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As people age, many will develop problems with walking, cognition, and urination. Yet while some may point to dementia as the cause, a build up of flu...

Fluid buildup in the brain treated with a shunt improves symptoms, Elizabeth Tracey reports

29 Sep 2025

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Problems walking, urinary issues, cognitive impairment…these are all symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus, where fluid builds up in the brain, ...

Shunts do work for a condition where fluid builds up in the brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports

29 Sep 2025

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Normal pressure hydrocephalus, where fluid called CSF builds up in the brain, is fairly common with aging, and has been treated with something called ...

Fluid in the brain known as hydrocephalus is fairly common with aging, Elizabeth Tracey reports

29 Sep 2025

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The singer Billy Joel recently announced he has normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, a condition where fluid builds up in the brain and may cause a ...

What’s the alternative to computer games to stave off dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

29 Sep 2025

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Use of electronic devices seems to reduce one’s risk for dementia, a recent study showed. Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s disease expert at J...

Does using digital technology help people avoid dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Sep 2025

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An analysis of 57 studies published recently shows that use of digital technologies, including computers and smart phones, helps reduce the risk of de...

Should you consider available formulations of lithium to reduce dementia risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Sep 2025

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Lithium may reduce dementia risk. That’s the take home from a recent study in mice that garnered a lot of attention. Constantine Lyketsos, a dementi...

Is lithium the key to avoiding the development of dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Sep 2025

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If mouse models prove to be true in humans, the element lithium may help avoid the development of dementia. Dementia expert Constantine Lyketsos at Jo...

Information can help people decide to forgo cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Sep 2025

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When given appropriate information about mammogram screenings, including benefits, harms, and who should consider screening cessation, a cohort of old...

What are the factors that keep people who won’t benefit from health screenings going? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Sep 2025

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Even when people know they can discontinue health screenings for things like cancer they often continue the practice. Nancy Schoenborn, a geriatrics e...

How might you feel about being told you can stop cancer screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Sep 2025

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Just as there’s a point in life when cancer screenings should begin, so too is there a point at which they can stop. That’s usually because the li...

How should preventive healthcare change as people age? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Sep 2025

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Research on when preventive healthcare like cancer screenings should start is abundant, with some guidelines, such as for breast or colorectal cancer,...

How would you feel about being screened for dementia on a regular basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 Sep 2025

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About half of people who have dementia don’t know it, and those people are at risk for worse outcomes when they’re hospitalized. That’s accordin...

People with dementia but no diagnosis can have more problematic hospitalizations, Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Sep 2025

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Older people with undiagnosed dementia who get hospitalized experience worse outcomes than other groups of older adults who require hospitalization, a...

Undiagnosed dementia can be risky, especially when someone is hospitalized, Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Sep 2025

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People who have dementia frequently aren’t diagnosed, and when such a person is hospitalized they are at much higher risk for poorer outcomes. That’...

Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Sep 2025

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Cancers continue to change, or mutate, as time goes on, often acquiring the ability to outmaneuver treatments. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher...

A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Sep 2025

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Genetics are foundational to much of cancer treatment, and now both the environment surrounding the tumor as well as analysis of cancer cells shed int...

How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

08 Sep 2025

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Radiation of a primary tumor can activate immune cells around distant metastases, a study by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins,...

Radiation is emerging as an important tool in helping improve immune response in cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

31 Aug 2025

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When cancer develops resistance to immunotherapy, radiation may help. That’s according to a study by cancer researcher Valsamo Anagnostou at Johns H...

Can radiation affect distant metastasis? Elizabeth Tracey reports

31 Aug 2025

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If someone with cancer has initially responded to immunotherapy but then develops metastasis, radiation of the primary tumor may help treat those dist...

Can radiation improve the success of immunotherapies to treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

31 Aug 2025

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Immunotherapies have proven very successful in the treatment of different types of cancer, but over time it is common for resistance to develop. Valsa...

What does the area around a tumor tell us about response to treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

31 Aug 2025

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How tumors respond to treatment has to do with both their internal and external environments, research by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at J...

Assessing individual cancer characteristics is needed to determine resistance to new types of therapies, Elizabeth Tracey reports

31 Aug 2025

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Immunotherapies hold enormous promise for treating cancers of various types, but the bad news is that while many patients may initially respond many w...

Laboratory studies demonstrate causation when it comes to cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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Studies looking at lung cancer in people who smoked showed that those who did experienced a lot more lung cancer than those who didn’t. That’s a c...

What should you do about getting the RSV vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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Respiratory syncytial virus or RSV can result in serious illness or death for infants, people with compromised immunity or older adults. The vaccine i...

With cold and flu season about to begin and Covid continuing, should you get a vaccine if you’re already under the weather? Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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It’s vaccination season, with many considering getting a Covid vaccine in light of ongoing infections nationwide. Critical care medicine expert Pana...

Monitoring your own symptoms after vaccination helps identify adverse reactions, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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People often express concerns about routine immunizations causing adverse reactions. Panagis Galiatsatos, a critical care expert at Johns Hopkins and ...

Reporting adverse events after receiving a vaccine helps you and others, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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Do you know about the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, or VAERS? This organization tracks and investigates bad reactions people have after rec...

Respiratory infection season is almost upon us, and older people in particular should pay attention to their vaccine status, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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If you’re an older adult or someone with chronic disease, now is a good time to consider getting vaccinated for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV....

If you’re sending a child off to college what vaccines should they get? Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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Being up to date on vaccines should be on the college prep list, says pharmacist Victoria DeJaco at Johns Hopkins. Dejaco: Definitely gonna want COVID...

Which type of vitamin is best? Your pharmacist knows, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 Aug 2025

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Do you take vitamins? While the evidence is conflicting on whether they are beneficial for health the majority of US adults do take them, and frequent...

Many people who could benefit from medicines to reduce their cardiovascular risk aren’t getting them, Elizabeth Tracey reports

05 Aug 2025

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A large number of people who could benefit from medicines to reduce cholesterol and consequent cardiovascular risk aren’t taking them, a study by Ca...

What are the barriers to testing for hepatitis C in emergency departments? Elizabeth Tracey reports

05 Aug 2025

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Hepatitis C is a worldwide problem, with millions of people infected who don’t even know it. We do have effective treatment and untreated infection ...

Could more targeted screening be helpful in colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

05 Aug 2025

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A new blood test used to screen people for colorectal cancer just isn’t ready to replace colonoscopy or fecal immunochemical tests, since these are ...

Are there aspects to blood testing for colorectal cancer that undermine screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports

05 Aug 2025

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A new blood test for colorectal cancer finds advanced cancers well, but William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says wh...

Is there a role for a new blood test for colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

21 Jul 2025

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A blood test can identify the majority of colorectal cancers, a new study finds, when compared with the gold standard, colonoscopy, for screening. Yet...

How helpful is a new blood test for colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

21 Jul 2025

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Blood tests for cancer are much in the news lately, including one to test for colorectal cancer. Such a test, if it works as well as methods like colo...

Supervised exercise helped reduce recurrence of colorectal cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

21 Jul 2025

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Regular, supervised exercise helped people who’d been treated for colorectal cancer avoid recurrence of the disease, a new study shows, adding to th...

Exercise helped people with colorectal cancer avoid recurrence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

21 Jul 2025

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People who had been treated for colorectal cancer and who undertook a structured exercise program had fewer recurrences than people who didn’t exerc...

Can a new drug that helps hot flashes herald a way to prevent many breast cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports

21 Jul 2025

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Some drugs used to treat breast cancer might also be used to prevent it, but the hot flashes and other troublesome side effects make that an unlikely ...

Engaging both patients and physicians in the use of cholesterol lowering medicines is needed, Elizabeth Tracey reports

14 Jul 2025

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Among people who’ve had a heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular event and need a cholesterol lowering medicine, about 2/3 will take one. Amo...

Why don’t people who are eligible for cholesterol lowering medicines take them? Elizabeth Tracey reports

14 Jul 2025

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Only about 25 percent of people who need cholesterol lowering medicines based on blood tests take them,  with about 2/3 of those who’ve ha...

Just how much does it cost our healthcare system when people don’t take needed medicines to reduce cardiovascular risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

14 Jul 2025

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Not taking medicines to lower cholesterol when you clearly need them increases your risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. Y...

The gap between recommendations and who is actually taking medicines to lower cardiovascular disease risk is huge, Elizabeth Tracey reports

14 Jul 2025

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Cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes, remains the number one cause of death in the United States, yet many people who should be...

How many people aren’t taking needed medicines to reduce cardiovascular risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

14 Jul 2025

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Most people have heard of statins, drugs that lower cholesterol and consequent cardiovascular disease risk. Caleb Alexander, a drug safety and efficac...

Can hot flashes and night sweats be controlled in women having treatment for breast cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

07 Jul 2025

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Hot flashes and night sweats are called vasomotor symptoms, and they’re experienced by many women approaching menopause and those being treated for ...

There’s hope for women with breast cancer who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, Elizabeth Tracey reports

07 Jul 2025

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Women whose breast cancer has estrogen receptors are usually treated with estrogen depleting medicines, with the consequence that they have hot flashe...

CAR-T cells are an expensive form of cancer treatment, but other techniques may soon supplant them, Elizabeth Tracey reports

07 Jul 2025

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CAR-T cells, a highly activated immune cell, have been used to treat a solid tumor, stomach cancer, for the first time. Yet the fact remains that CAR-...

Why has it been so hard to use CAR-T cells to treat solid tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports

07 Jul 2025

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For the first time CAR-T cells, a highly activated type of immune cell, have been used with some success to treat stomach cancer, a so-called solid tu...

Will solid tumors now be treated with CAR-T cells? Elizabeth Tracey reports

07 Jul 2025

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You’ve probably heard of CAR-T cells, a type of immune cells taken from someone’s body, grown up in a lab and trained to attack their cancer. CAR-...

Humidity may be as important as temperature when it comes to air conditioning, Elizabeth Tracey reports

30 Jun 2025

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When it comes to managing with the dog days of summer, air conditioning is very helpful, especially for people with chronic lung problems. Johns Hopki...

If you don’t use AC properly you may make lung problems worse, Elizabeth Tracey reports

30 Jun 2025

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People with lung conditions like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, abbreviated COPD, rely on air conditioning in the summer to help kee...

Proper AC maintenance is key to healthful use, Elizabeth Tracey reports

30 Jun 2025

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If you have any respiratory issues you likely benefit from air conditioning when the weather is hot. Lung health expert William Checkley at Johns Hopk...

Sometimes air conditioning can compromise your respiratory health, Elizabeth Tracey reports

30 Jun 2025

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For many people air conditioning is important for alleviating symptoms of chronic respiratory disease, but Johns Hopkins lung health expert William Ch...

While AC is great at making us feel comfortable it’s also important for health, Elizabeth Tracey reports

30 Jun 2025

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As the northern hemisphere enters full summer, many people shut their windows and turn on the air conditioning, or AC. William Checkley, a lung health...

Different types of tumors with a specific mutation may not need surgery, Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Jun 2025

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Mismatch repair is just what it sounds like: when a cell divides and makes new DNA strands when a mistake is made it repairs them. Some types of cance...

Are there cancers where surgery may be entirely avoided? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Jun 2025

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Genetic analysis of most cancers is becoming more commonplace, and now identification of one specific mutation called a mismatch repair may allow peop...

Which types of cancer treatment are impacted by the gut microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Jun 2025

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More types of gut bacteria, or greater diversity, the healthier your microbiome. That’s one message of a recent review looking at the impact of micr...

If your gut microbiome isn’t healthy, is there anything that can be done about it? Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Jun 2025

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A recent review in the Journal of the American Medical Association asserts that the diversity of bacteria in your colon impact on the likelihood that ...

Your gut microbiome may have much to do with how you respond to cancer therapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports

23 Jun 2025

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The wealth of bacteria resident on and in your body may have much to do with your overall health, including how you respond to different therapies for...

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

17 Jun 2025

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Colorectal cancer screening, and rise in younger people, microplastics and cancer, immune checkpoint inhibitors and longterm toxicity, AI contribution...

Who is suitable for a breathlessness clinic visit? Elizabeth Tracey reports

16 Jun 2025

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Breathlessness clinic is a new approach at Johns Hopkins to assist people with chronic lung diseases to live their best lives with these often debilit...

What is a breathlessness clinic? Elizabeth Tracey reports

16 Jun 2025

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Being short of breath is a terrible feeling, most people agree, and it’s a feature of many lung diseases, especially as they progress. Lung expert A...

What are current studies doing when high levels of blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s are found? Elizabeth Tracey reports

16 Jun 2025

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High blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease found by the newly FDA approved blood test indicate the presence of two proteins in the brain called a...

What are your options if a new blood test says you are at risk for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

16 Jun 2025

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Let’s say you’ve taken the newly approved blood test for Alzheimer’s disease and the results indicate the presence of tau and amyloid in your br...

People who develop dementia as they age most often have a mixed type, Elizabeth Tracey reports

16 Jun 2025

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You may have heard of a new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease just approved by the FDA. Abhay Moghakar, a neurologist and blood biomarkers expert a...

A truly comprehensive test for Alzheimer’s disease may be on the horizon, Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Jun 2025

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A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease isn’t a stand alone diagnostic tool. That’s according to Abhay Moghekar, a blood biomarkers expert and ...

Biomarkers alone don’t mean Alzheimer’s disease is present, Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Jun 2025

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Will an FDA cleared blood test for Alzheimer’s disease ease or complicate diagnosis? Clearly in approving the test the FDA hopes for the former, yet...

If you get a positive result on the new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, what does that mean? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Jun 2025

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Positive results on the newly FDA cleared blood test for Alzheimer’s disease don’t necessarily mean you have the disease. That’s according to bl...

Who is a candidate for the new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Jun 2025

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The FDA has just cleared a blood test to help make the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, which otherwise may require some fairly invasive methods. B...

What’s the basis of the new blood test to screen for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

09 Jun 2025

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A blood test to screen for proteins related to Alzheimer’s disease has been cleared by the FDA, and it’s designed for people who are older than 55...

A protein that’s made in your brain at night helps you remember things, Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Jun 2025

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NPTX2 is a protein that’s pivotal for helping your brain decide to remember certain things and forget others, and when levels of it decline it sugge...

How do neurodegenerative diseases begin? Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Jun 2025

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Many theories on how brain disorders like Alzheimer’s disease begin point to proteins called amyloid beta and tau as accumulating and disrupting the...

A change in a protein in the brain signals possible neurocognitive disorders, Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Jun 2025

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You probably know how complex your brain function is, relying on a delicately balanced system full of proteins that act as signals and specialized ner...

Accurately predicting who’s at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease may now be easier, Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Jun 2025

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NPTX2 is the abbreviation for a protein found in the brain that may allow much more accurate prognosis of who’s at risk for developing neurocognitiv...

What can proteins in the blood and elsewhere teach us about developing dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

02 Jun 2025

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Proteins known as tau and beta amyloid have been part of the dialogue on Alzheimer’s disease development for many years, with methods to measure the...

Sickle cell disease should be treated with a half-matched donor approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 May 2025

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Sickle cell disease was thought to be cured using gene therapy, but longer term follow up reveals that while the condition improves many are not cured...

Gene therapy for sickle cell disease often isn’t a cure, Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 May 2025

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Gene therapy for sickle cell disease has a breathtaking price tag of 2-3 million dollars per person, and for some people who receive it, is doesn’t ...

A new technique is better than gene therapy for curing sickle cell disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 May 2025

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Headlines have announced that sickle cell disease can be cured with gene therapy. Now there’s a better way developed at Johns Hopkins and other cent...

A new technique cures most people with sickle cell disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 May 2025

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Bone marrow transplants used to be limited to just those people with sickle cell disease who could receive bone marrow from a matched donor. Rick Jone...

What’s the best way to cure sickle cell disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

27 May 2025

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Sickle cell disease is a genetic abnormality that causes red blood cells to sickle instead of being round, and a host of problems result, including ex...

Breast cancer survival rates have stalled, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 May 2025

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Improvements in breast cancer detection and treatment have resulted in improved survival, but now those improvements seem to have stalled, a new analy...

Possible impacts of new cancer drugs need to be cataloged, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 May 2025

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors are cancer drugs that for many have been a lifeline. Yet they are associated with a range of reactions that really need t...

How might microplastics be related to cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 May 2025

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Microplastics you’ve inhaled and eaten are found all over your body, a recent study shows, and while no one knows exactly how they’re impacting yo...

Your body has microplastics in many places, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 May 2025

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Microplastics are formed from the breakdown of plastics in the environment, and they’ve now been found in many places in the human body, a new study...

There are things you can do to help protect your respiratory health even with dryer air and poor air quality, Elizabeth Tracey reports

19 May 2025

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Breathing through your mouth makes health issues from dryer air even worse, says David Edwards, a respiratory health expert at Johns Hopkins. His rece...

How is poor air quality related to dry air and respiratory health? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 May 2025

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Very tiny particles known as PM2.5 are a part of pollutants in the air, and have been shown to negatively affect health. Ditto for warming temperature...

Does dry air contribute to more respiratory infections? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 May 2025

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Dry air just isn’t good for your respiratory health, new research by David Edwards, a respiratory health expert at Johns Hopkins, has shown. Dry air...

How are dry air and respiratory disease connected? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 May 2025

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When you’re in an environment where the air is dry, a whole cascade of responses renders you more susceptible to respiratory conditions and diseases...

Dry airways and inflammation are linked, Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 May 2025

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As our planet warms, relative humidity hasn’t changed much but evaporation rate has increased, so things are dryer. This is a prescription for incre...

What are increasing global temperatures doing to your airways? Elizabeth Tracey reports

12 May 2025

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Climate change and increasing temperatures are already taking a toll on your health, research by David Edwards, a respiratory health expert at Johns H...

How is the decision on how long to continue life sustaining treatment made? Elizabeth Tracey reports

10 Apr 2025

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Findings on a routine EEG called sleep spindles may be helpful in determining if a nonresponsive person who’s had a brain injury will recover, a new...