Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08 — 1.0MB)

Subscribe: RSS

ANCHOR LEAD: FEEDING HIGHER CALORIE DIETS TO PEOPLE WITH ALS STILL NEEDS STUDY, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS ALS is a relentless disease, most often resulting in death just a couple of years after diagnosis. Now a new study shows that higher …

Mar 28, 2014 – Calories and ALS Read more »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08 — 1.1MB)

Subscribe: RSS

ANCHOR LEAD: CAN MORE CALORIES EXTEND LIFE IN PEOPLE WITH ALS? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Higher calorie diets may help people with advanced ALS, or Lou Gerhig’s disease, live longer, a recent study in the Lancet found. Jeffrey Rothstein, an ALS …

Mar 27, 2014 – Food and ALS Read more »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04 — 1,016.1KB)

Subscribe: RSS

ANCHOR LEAD: CAN A NEW BLOOD TEST DISCERN YOUR RISK FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS A constellation of ten chemicals found in your blood can predict with about 90% accuracy your risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study purports. …

Mar 26, 2014 – Alzheimers Blood Test Read more »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08 — 1.0MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Health newsfeed for Tuesday, March 25, 2014 ANCHOR LEAD: THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAS WEIGHED IN ON SUGAR, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Sugar seems to have replaced salt as the latest target for the diet police, and now the World Health …

Mar 25, 2014 – WHO and Sugar Read more »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:09 — 1.1MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Electronic cigarette manufacturers would have us all believe such devices aid smokers to quit, but a recent study provides abundant evidence that among American youth the converse is actually true. Michael Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of …

Mar 24, 2014 – ECigs and Smoking Read more »