Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts
Episodes
Assessing dry eye requires an expert, Elizabeth Tracey reports
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been trying to manage your dry eyes yourself with the multitude of products available over the counter, you may be causing yourself more h...
Dry eye syndrome affects millions of Americans, Elizabeth Tracey reports
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably experienced the sensation that your eyes are dry. They may also be scratchy or sore. Lauren Gormley, an optometrist at Johns Hopkins...
What’s the difference between time restricted eating and intermittent fasting? Elizabeth Tracey reports
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cutting short the number of hours during the day when you consume food seems like it should result in weight loss, but that didn’t pan out in a rece...
Key to weight loss is a global look at someone’s health, Elizabeth Tracey reports
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Simply restricting eating to fewer hours during the day won’t result in weight loss for many, a Johns Hopkins study by Nisa Maruthur, an internal me...
Increasing fiber may be key to weight loss in a study of time restricted eating, Elizabeth Tracey reports
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fiber comprising a lot of an overall healthy diet may have resulted in weight loss for two groups of people in a recent study- those who ate only duri...
How does time restricted eating compare to a healthy diet? Elizabeth Tracey reports
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is there any benefit at all to time restricted eating, or TRE, for losing weight when compared to a usual eating pattern? That’s the question addres...
How can time restricted eating be fairly studied for weight loss? Elizabeth Tracey reports
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re thinking of using time restricted eating, where you only consume food for a shortened part of your waking hours, for weight loss, results ...
Would eating most of your daily intake before 1pm help you lose weight? Elizabeth Tracey reports
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time restricted eating, or TRE, seems like it might help people lose weight, many studies in animal models suggested. So Nisa Maruthur, an internal me...
What does a new study on time restricted eating tell us? Elizabeth Tracey reports
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will restricting how many hours while you’re awake you allow yourself to eat help you lose weight? So called time restricted eating looked promising...
Several diabetes medicines are being eyed for use outside of this condition, Elizabeth Tracey reports
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Metformin is a older medication used for type 2 diabetes that’s now being evaluated for improving longevity. Another diabetes medicine called a GLP-...
Will everyone soon be taking a medicine first developed to manage type 2 diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yet another study has come out recommending the class of medicines called GLP-1 agonists for type 2 diabetes. These medicines are already in the news ...
Are certain diabetes medicines best for specific people? Elizabeth Tracey reports
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diabetes medicine known as GLP-1 agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors are recommended for people with type 2 diabetes in a recent large study that aggregate...
When are newer diabetes medicines best? Elizabeth Tracey reports
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s say you’ve just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but outside of that condition you have no other health issues. Should you take a newer ...
What are the best medicines to manage diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you have type 2 diabetes, what are the best medicines to manage it? A new meta-analysis looks at aggregated data from a number of studies and comes...
A range of tests should accompany evaluation for esophagus cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer of the esophagus can be challenging to treat, and when it’s diagnosed a number of studies are appropriate to fully evaluate the disease. That...
What are the symptoms of cancer of the esophagus? Elizabeth Tracey reports
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Esophagus cancer awareness month has just ended, and Richard Battafarano, director of thoracic surgery at Johns Hopkins, says while some people may ha...
A new type of pharmaceutical to treat bladder cancer may become the method of choice, Elizabeth Tracey reports
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bladder cancer treatment is about to change dramatically based on a trial showing that adding an antibody to a toxic substance is much more effective ...
A stool based test for colorectal cancer just got an update, Elizabeth Tracey reports
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stool based tests to screen for colorectal cancer have been around for some time and work pretty well. Now one of the most utilized ones has been impr...
Is a better way to screen for colorectal cancer on the horizon? Elizabeth Tracey reports
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A blood test to screen for cancer is something of a Holy Grail, and now a new study describes one for colorectal cancer. Kimmel Cancer Center director...
Many aspects of pulse oximeter function may be dysfunctional in people with darker skin, Elizabeth Tracey reports
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pulse oximeters, vital for measuring how much oxygen is in someone’s blood, don’t work well in people with darker skin, multiple studies have show...
Measurement of skin tone confirms inaccuracy of pulse oximeters in some people, Elizabeth Tracey reports
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just how inaccurate are the devices used to measure oxygen in the blood, called pulse oximeters, in people with darker skin? That’s the question tha...
Testing of pulse oximeters should take place clinically, Elizabeth Tracey reports
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pulse oximeters are essential to measure someone’s level of oxygen in their blood, yet they haven’t been updated since the 1970s and they’re not...
Devices that measure oxygen in the bloodstream need federal regulation, Elizabeth Tracey reports
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a person with darker skin, a device to measure oxygen in your blood called a pulse oximeter may be inaccurate, sometimes extremely so, acc...
It’s high time to update pulse oximeters, Elizabeth Tracey reports
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pulse oximeters are devices used to measure how much oxygen is in someone’s blood, and they are critical in settings like ICUs. Yet research shows t...
Is lifelong treatment necessary with a drug to manage severe food allergies? Elizabeth Tracey reports
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An injectable drug called omalizumab now may be used to manage severe food allergies, the FDA has decided. Robert Wood, an allergy expert at Johns Hop...
Are there downsides to using omalizumab for treating food allergy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Omalizumab is an injectable drug just approved by the FDA to treat severe food allergies. Robert Wood, one author of a study used to inform the agency...