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Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts — 39 episodes
An AI model may help predict who is more likely to develop pancreas cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Will GLP1 drugs tease out the relationship between insulin and cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Is there a relationship between diet, obesity and colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
What accounts for increases in colorectal cancer among younger people? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A new drug for pancreas cancer may be a game changer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What can a 3D atlas of cancer teach us? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Text messages meeting people where they are allow children to avoid becoming obese, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Childhood obesity rates keep rising, but a text based intervention can help.
Helping kids most at risk for obesity is possible, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Parents were pivotal in the success of a study to prevent childhood obesity, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Getting to kids and parents very early in life may be key to preventing obesity, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Parents are invaluable when it comes to avoiding childhood obesity, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Specific text messages to parents help slow down childhood obesity, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What sorts of messages help parents prevent obesity in their young children? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can texting prevent obesity in young children? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A comprehensive text program can help prevent childhood obesity, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What’s the best practice for measuring your blood pressure at home? Elizabeth Tracey reports
If your blood pressure measures high it’s wise to consider a couple of things, Elizabeth Tracey reports
If you measure your own blood pressure, pay attention to your arm position, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Taking a blood pressure right is more complicated than it might seem, Elizabeth Tracey reports
How high might your blood pressure be if your arm isn’t properly positioned? Elizabeth Tracey reports
What should your arm position be if you’re having your blood pressure measured? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Accurate blood pressure measurement is harder than it seems, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Just how are video games to help manage mental health conditions in children developed? Elizabeth Tracey reports
What characterizes a video game designed to help kids with mental health issues? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Having kids using mental health care gaming works best at a computer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What does a survey of video games to help kid’s mental health show? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can video games help fill in the gap between kids who need mental health care and the dearth of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Skin isn’t the only place to sample to make a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Personalized treatment may soon come for Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Some people with Parkinson’s disease will test negative with the best test yet, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What is it that causes a normal protein to fold differently and cause Parkinson’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Parkinson’s disease is actually a few different clinical entities, Elizabeth Tracey reports
A new way of diagnosing prion disease may also help in other diseases, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What is a prion and how does it cause disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Why is it that a disorder that affects the brain can be diagnosed with a skin biopsy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Making the diagnosis for a rare brain disease may now be easier, Elizabeth Tracey reports