Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Jan 26 2025 10 ep. 1 mins 6.7k
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When prostate cancer returns a nuclear medicine scan can help, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 26 2025 1 mins  
Prostate specific membrane antigen or PSMA PET scanning is very accurate at detecting and visualizing prostate cancer throughout the body. Now a study using this type of scan on men whose disease recurred shows its efficacy in this case also. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins describes the findings. Nelson: This is a nuclear medicine kind of scan that de

Can a new tool help determine which cancer treatments might help you? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 26 2025 1 mins  
For many people with cancer drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have proven to be lifesavers. Yet as with all drugs they come with side effects, and if you aren’t a person who will benefit from them, it would be good to give them a miss. Now a new tool called Scorpio seems to help identify who might benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors. William Nelson, director of the

Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 26 2025 1 mins  
In spite of the outgoing Surgeon General’s assertions, some people aren’t buying a relationship between alcohol consumption and cancer. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins says there are lines of research that would definitely help. Nelson: It's just very complicated. I think breast cancer is where I'd say for the moment it's been it's probably the mos

What does the science tell us about alcohol consumption and cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 26 2025 1 mins  
Outgoing Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says alcohol packaged for consumption should bear a warning label about increased risk for cancer. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says that recommendation is based on an assumption. Nelson:  There is not a safe level of alcohol consumption. Some of the data does suggest that that's probably true, other data

Should you give up alcohol to reduce your cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 26 2025 1 mins  
Alcohol for consumption should come with a warning label about cancer risk, outgoing Surgeon General Vivek Murthy asserts. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says this is an issue that’s surrounded by complexity. Nelson: The issue of alcohol's effects on health have been extensively studied. There's been a tremendous attempt to try and figure o

How might AI improve interpretation of free DNA levels in the blood? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 12 2025 1 mins  
Free DNA in   the blood portends increasing frailty and possibly an increased risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease, two long term studies of older adults by Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues have shown. Abadir says as we more fully embrace AI, such a measure may be even more powerful. Abadir: AI algorithms can analyze large data sets

Higher levels of your own DNA circulating in your blood may be a problem, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 12 2025 1 mins  
DNA fragments found circulating in an older person’s blood are associated with frailty and Alzheimer’s disease, studies by Peter Abadir, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues have shown. These long term studies of several hundred older adults also found that the more DNA was found, the more quickly things deteriorated. Abadir: Higher genomic DNA fragments was als

How much does increased levels of DNA in the blood increase dementia risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 12 2025 1 mins  
Increased cell death, increased levels of DNA in the blood, increased inflammation, and increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. That appears to be one scenario to explain findings by Johns Hopkins geriatrics expert Peter Abadir on the relationship between circulating cell free DNA and cognitive decline. Abadir: We looked at 631 community dwelling older adults. We looked at genomi

Why does increased cell death in the body increase inflammation? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 12 2025 1 mins  
Cell death in your body happens all the time, every day, and when it does DNA is released into your blood. It may be your genetic DNA or it may be from your mitochondria, and it is giving clues to your aging and health. That’s according to research by geriatrics expert Peter Abadir at Johns Hopkins. Abadir: Look at the genomic DNA fragments and how it is linked to both dementia a

Is walking speed linked to cell death? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Jan 12 2025 1 mins  
Walking speed is a commonly used measure for health, as it’s easy to do and doesn’t cost much. Now a study by Peter Abadir, a Johns Hopkins geriatrics expert, links walking speed to cell death, as measured by release of DNA into the circulation from mitochondria. Abadir: Longitudinally the more you're losing of those mitochondria the more they are linked to worse gait speeds. T