Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
March 21, 2016 – Subbing Mosquitoes
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Anchor lead: Can releasing modified mosquitoes stem the Zika tide? Elizabeth Tracey reports Genetically modified mosquitoes are being used in many areas of the world to combat mosquito-borne illness, and are now being released in the hopes of stemming the …
BrainWaves: March 2016
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This month's podcast focuses on how to see a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. Transcript Elizabeth Tracey: Welcome to this month's Brain Waves. I'm Elizabeth Tracey. John Weingart: Hello, Elizabeth. I'm John Weingart, Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. Today, I …
PodMed – Week of March 14, 2016
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This week’s topics include the obesity paradox, early peanut feeding, incompatible kidney transplants, and ultraprocessed food consumption. Program notes: 0:35 Ultraprocessed foods 1:35 NHANES data 2:31 Contributed 90% of added sugar 3:31 Culinary ingredients 3:52 Feeding peanuts to infants 4:50 …
March 18, 2016 – STD Quiz
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Anchor lead: Can a very simple quiz assess sexually transmitted infection risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sexually transmitted infections are rampant, and new organisms capable of causing them are being identified by federal agencies. Charlotte Gaydos, a sexually transmitted diseases expert …
March 17, 2016 – Moonshot
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Anchor lead: What’s the benefit of a federal government moonshot at cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports What’s the practical implication of President Obama’s announced ‘moonshot’ at cancer? William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, responds. Nelson: What …
March 16, 2016 – SSRI and HIV
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Johns Hopkins and two other institutions has pointed the way toward greater understanding of how Zika virus infection may be related to microcephaly in babies. Guo-li Ming, a professor of neurology, neuroscience, psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins, describes …