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Anchor lead: Can a book by Maryland delegate Dan Morehaim help inform your end of life choices? Elizabeth Tracey reports Representative Dan Morehaim, an emergency medicine physician and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, strives …
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This week’s topics include persistent banned substances in supplements, knowledge of central venous catheters among physicians, vitamin D levels and different types of milk, and MD versus hospital owned practices and costs. Program notes: 0:44 Vitamin D levels and milk …
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Anchor lead: A novel vending machine helps nursing moms at Johns Hopkins, Elizabeth Tracey reports Johns Hopkins is leading the way in helping support breastfeeding moms when they return to work. Meg Stoltzfus, a work life expert at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: Big data from electronic medical records may help medical trials, Elizabeth Tracey reports Clinical trials are the gold standard by which much of medicine moves forward, but they’re expensive and often take years to complete. Electronic medical records …
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Anchor lead: Has big data delivered on any of its promise in healthcare? Elizabeth Tracey reports Electronic medical records have been deployed nationally, and many researchers are attempting to glean new insights about disease and treatments from these massive quantities …
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Anchor lead: What can we learn from recent Ebola transmission domestically? Elizabeth Tracey reports Everyone has 20/20 hindsight, the saying goes, and while that’s usually true, rigorous examination of recent cases of Ebola virus transmission here in the US is …
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Anchor lead: Why have nurses contracted Ebola in the western world? Elizabeth Tracey reports Two in Texas and one in Spain- how is it that nurses are developing Ebola infection while other members of the Western healthcare teams remain uninfected? …
