Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

March 14, 2018 – Safe Spaces

Posted on March 8, 2018 Posted in Alcohol And Drug Abuse, All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: Is providing drug users a safe place to use them a good idea? Elizabeth Tracey reports Safe spaces are places where people who use drugs can go to have their drugs tested, and then use them in an …

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March 13, 2018 – Opioids and Death

Posted on March 8, 2018 Posted in Alcohol And Drug Abuse, All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: Can a test strip for fentanyl help reduce the number of opioid deaths? Elizabeth Tracey reports What does it feel like to be an opiate addict? Most of us can only imagine why those who use these drugs …

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March 12, 2018 – Test Strips

Posted on March 8, 2018 Posted in Alcohol And Drug Abuse, All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: Can something as simple as a paper test strip help stem the tide of opioid overdoses? Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid overdoses continue unabated, with the opioid fentanyl increasingly implicated, the latest data show. Susan Sherman, a professor of …

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March 9, 2018 – Skin and Cancer

Posted on March 2, 2018 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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Anchor lead: What do skin infections and tumor responses have in common? Elizabeth Tracey reports You’ve probably heard of MRSA, a skin infection that can turn deadly for some people. This is just one strain of a bacterium that’s called …

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March 8, 2018 – MRSA and T

Posted on March 2, 2018 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Infectious diseases

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Anchor lead: A special type of cell helps some people fight off severe skin infections, Elizabeth Tracey reports Many skin infections are caused by a bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus, with the most infamous strain known as methicillin resistant staph aureus, …

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March 7, 2018 – Parents in the NICU

Posted on March 2, 2018 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Pediatrics

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Anchor lead: When parents take a role in the NICU, babies do better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Parents who’ve been carefully trained by staff in the neonatal intensive care unit or NICU can successfully help care for their critically ill infants, …

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March 6, 2018 – Two Bugs

Posted on March 2, 2018 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Colon And Rectal Cancer

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Anchor lead: Two bacteria teaming up may lead to colon cancer in some, Elizabeth Tracey reports Bacteria in your gut are back in the news with a study by Cynthia Sears and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, showing that in some …

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