Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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

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

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

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

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

Employers increasingly recognize the positive impact of mindfulness, but how can it be practiced in a busy health care setting? Join a conversation with Jennifer Salaverri, a licensed clinical social worker and mindfulness meditation teacher who leads the mindfulness strategy for Johns Hopkins Health System employees. Salaverri explains how mindfulness practices can improve workpla

This month’s topics include a cancer atlas, or index of all cells in cancer in people and looking at them 3D, treating colorectal cancer with two different immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune signatures in adverse events using immunotherapy, and stem cell transplants and cancer causing mutations.

Our podcast this month, ‘Getting started in Inquiry Work,’ is a special presentation from the 2024 SHINE Conference. The presenter, Dawn Hohl, PhD, RN, is the Executive Director of Transitions for Patient Care Experience with Johns Hopkins Care at Home (JHC@H). Dawn discusses how inquiry work is integrated into the JHC@H’s work, and provides detailed examples of Evidence-Base

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

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