Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts
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Several strategies seem to help in keeping mosquitoes out of your yard, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Outdoor foggers with insecticides of the permethrin class help a lot in keeping mosquitoes from invading your outdoor celebrations in the summer, but if you don’t like inhaling the…
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Keeping your backyard barbecue free of mosquitoes is possible, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mosquitoes aren’t just a nuisance, they transmit disease. So when you bring everyone over for a backyard barbeque keeping them away is a priority. Johns Hopkins mosquito expert Chr…
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How often can a blood test predict cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports
More and more blood tests to screen for cancer are coming on the market, with a new one looking at proteins in the blood helping identify who is at risk to develop lung cancer. Kim…
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Will a blood test compel more people to be screened for lung cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
When someone has a years-long, multiple pack history of smoking, they are recommended to undergo screening for lung cancer utilizing a technology known as low dose computed tomogra…
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Can a blood test improve lung cancer screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports
People with a history of tobacco smoking are recommended to have screening CT for lung cancer, but many of them choose not to be screened. A new study looks at the ability of a blo…
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What do false positives and negatives have to do with screening tests for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A blood test used for population based cancer screening fell short of allowing cancers to be detected earlier, was cost prohibitive and delayed diagnoses for others, a new study sh…
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Just how expensive could it be to screen populations of people for cancer using blood tests? Elizabeth Tracey…
A blood test capable of detecting multiple cancers seems like a dream come true, yet a new study looking at such a test used in populations of people failed to find cancers earlier…
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Should blood tests to screen for cancer be used on a population basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports
When large populations of people were screened for multiple cancers using a blood test, not only didn’t cancers get found earlier, others who were not screened had delays in their…
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How do GLP-1 agonists compare against other strategies for weight reduction and cancer risk reduction? Elizabe…
For some types of cancer obesity is clearly a risk factor. Now a new study shows that when people with obesity take a GLP-1 agonist to lose weight, they also reduce their risk for…
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How are one class of diabetes drugs related to cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports
GLP-1 agonists are a class of drugs originally developed to treat diabetes but have been shown to be helpful for weight loss. Now a new study looks at whether their use reduces the…
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Can anything be done to ward off mosquitoes? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Keeping mosquitoes away may be more important than ever as malaria returns to the continental US and other viral illnesses are also transmitted by them. Johns Hopkins mosquito expe…
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Do mosquitoes have preferences when it comes to who they bite? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mosquitoes seem to practice discernment when they choose which human they’ll bite. Christopher Potter, a mosquito expert at Johns Hopkins, says smell brings them in, with women who…
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It’s the touch that finally does it when a mosquito is looking to feed, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mosquitoes looking to feed utilize many qualities of humans to find their prey. Exhaled carbon dioxide, unique human scents and infrared radiation all play a part. But it’s not unt…
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Body odors work in concert with carbon dioxide to tip mosquitoes off to our presence, Elizabeth Tracey reports
You may not think of yourself as especially odorous but your very breath combines with scents from your body to make a human bouquet that’s especially attractive to mosquitoes. Tha…
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What’s the first clue to a mosquito that there’s a human around? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mosquitoes, relative in size to people, are tiny. How is it that they can locate us so efficiently when they’re looking for a blood meal? Mosquito expert Christopher Potter at John…
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Should you be concerned about a malaria comeback in the US? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Mosquito borne illnesses may include those caused by viruses or parasites. With factors such as frequent international travel and climate change, conditions are improving for malar…
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Now that summer is here mosquitoes are all around us, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Along with longer days and warmer temperatures, summer heralds much more robust mosquito populations in the northern hemisphere. Johns Hopkins mosquito expert Christopher Potter de…
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Can a new method for developing CAR-T cells to treat cancer be expanded? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Making CAR-T cells from donor bone marrow already used to treat someone’s cancer helped rein in cancer recurrence, a new study shows. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson a…
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Can donor CAR-T cells have an impact on cancer treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports
CAR-T cells developed from bone marrow donors whose bone marrow had already been used to treat someone’s cancer may be able to rein in cancer recurrence, a new study finds. Johns H…
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Are CAR-T cells coming into their own as therapeutic agents? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Specially engineered T cells, one component of immune cells in your body, are called CAR-T cells, and for several years now have been used to treat blood cancers and some other con…