Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Infectious Vaccine?

Posted on November 13, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases, Influenza (flu)

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Anchor lead: Is it possible to get the flu from the flu vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Flu vaccines prevent the flu, and cannot actually give someone the infection. Reports that the flu vaccine causes the flu are the stuff of …

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Catching Flu

Posted on November 12, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases, Influenza (flu)

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Anchor lead: Flu viruses can catch up with you almost anywhere, Elizabeth Tracey reports Now that flu season has arrived, there is a risk you can pick up the infection from almost any surface someone with the flu has sneezed …

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Flu Season

Posted on November 11, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases, Influenza (flu)

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Anchor lead: The flu season has arrived in the northern hemisphere, Elizabeth Tracey reports Have you gotten your flu shot yet? Clare Rock, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says it’s past time to do so. Rock: Flu season …

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What is in It?

Posted on November 8, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Smoking Tagged with lung injury, vaping

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Anchor lead: Pinpointing the cause of vaping related deaths is hampered by what is in vaping solutions, Elizabeth Tracey reports We don’t know what’s in many vaping solutions, and we don’t have the regulatory tools to compel ingredients to be …

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Vaping Woes

Posted on November 7, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Smoking Tagged with lung injury, vaping

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Anchor lead: A lack of knowledge led to our current vaping crisis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Do e-cigarettes help people to stop using combustible cigarettes? Enid Neptune, a lung expert and tobacco activist at Johns Hopkins, says because the answer to …

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Particles in Mucus

Posted on November 6, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Research Tagged with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD

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Anchor lead: Measuring how particles move through mucus may help manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD is a leading cause of death worldwide. Now a new study by Enid Neptune, a lung …

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Use of Golden Ratio

Posted on November 5, 2019 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Research

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Anchor lead: A proportion found throughout nature has a practical side, Elizabeth Tracey reports The Golden Ratio is a mystical measurement found not only in human skulls, as shown recently by Rafael Tamargo, a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, but …

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