Category: Health Topics
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October 5, 2015 – Brain Tumors and Weight
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Anchor lead: Is there a relationship between overweight and certain brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports Over a third of all brain tumors actually develop from the tissue covering of the brain and are called meningiomas. Now a new study implicates …
September 8, 2015 – Cancer News Review
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Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses top cancer news during September 2015. Program Notes: 0:11 Treatment of advanced prostate cancer 1:12 Improved overall survival 2:11 Real flurry of new agents 2:27 Active surveillance 3:27 More threatened by other …
PodMed – Week of October 5, 2015
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This week’s topics include calcium supplements, chemotherapy during pregnancy, cardiometabolic impact of obesity in children, and a low nicotine cigarette. Program notes: 0:31 Low nicotine cigarette 1:32 Attempted to prove that nicotine addicts 2:30 FDA should regulate nicotine level 3:26 …
October 2, 2015 – Glucose Tolerance and Dementia
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Anchor lead: Could variations in a common test identify early dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports Oral glucose tolerance tests are commonly used during pregnancy and to test for diabetes. Now research led by Esther Oh, a dementia expert at Johns Hopkins, …
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October 1, 2015 – Micronutrient Lack
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Anchor lead: People who are considering obesity surgery might want a nutritional assessment beforehand, Elizabeth Tracey reports One in five very obese patients who were about to have obesity or bariatric surgery at Johns Hopkins were found to have nutritional …
September 30, 2015 – Obese but Not Healthy
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Anchor lead: What’s the nutritional status of people who are obese? Elizabeth Tracey reports In spite of consuming large amounts of food, a surprising number of people who are very overweight, so-called morbidly obese, are nutritionally compromised. That’s according to …