Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

January 23, 2015 – HPV not Pap

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: Screening for cervical cancer will now consist largely of HPV screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports Women in the US are accustomed to having a Pap smear to assess their risk of cervical cancer. Now new guidelines employ testing for …

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January 22, 2015 – Target Audience

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Heart And Vascular

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Anchor lead: A program in rural Maine shows that targeting your audience really does help reduce heart disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Forty years of data don’t lie: when residents of a rural Maine county took part in a targeted risk …

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January 21, 2015 – Group Effort

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Heart And Vascular

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Anchor lead: When people are educated to reduce risk factors for heart disease, the payoffs are big, Elizabeth Tracey reports Take one low resource county in rural Maine with lots of at risk residents for heart disease, add a comprehensive …

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January 20, 2015 – Random Nature

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: If most of cancer is due to bad luck should we just give up now? Elizabeth Tracey reports Two-thirds of cancer cases are due to bad luck, a slew of recent headlines trumpeted after the publication of a …

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January 19, 2015 – Mutation Accretion

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: What should we make of the bad luck factor in cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Is the majority of cancer due to simple bad luck? That’s one interpretation of a recent Johns Hopkins study published in the journal Science. …

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PodMed – Week of January 19, 2015

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Breast Health, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Geriatrics, Heart And Vascular, High Blood Pressure, PodMed

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This week's topics include successful community-based intervention for cardiovascular disease, ethnicity and breast cancer, overuse of aspirin, and overuse of tight blood sugar control. Program notes: 0:32 Community based intervention for cardiovascular disease risk reduction 1:31 Hypertension, cholesterol, smoking 2:32 …

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PodMed – Week of January 12, 2015

Posted on January 10, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Diabetes, Neurology And Neurosurgery, PodMed, Pregnancy

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This week’s topics include random mutations and cancer risk, increased mortality and type 1 diabetes, concussion and rest, and kidney donation and pregnancy risk. Program notes: 0:42 Concussion management? 1:42 All presented soon after concussion 2:41 One to two days …

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