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Ep 15 – Vaccines: Not a Shot in the Dark | Medicine Made General

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Episode 87: EBP Spotlight with Michelle Cook and Sam O’Leary | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Episode 86: Where has Your Curiosity Taken You? With Dr. Kat Scafide | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Episode 85: Interview the Inquirer #2 – Myrna Mamaril | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Ep 25: Why Belonging Matters at Work: Creating the Conditions for People to Thrive | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Ep14 – It Shouldn’t Have to Be So Hard:’ From Pediatric to Adult Care | Medicine Made General

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Episode 84: Quality Improvement Spotlight – Kelly Forbes | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Episode 83: Interviewing the Inquirer – Betsy Zink | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Ep13 – Building a Better Skin Care Routine| Medicine Made General

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Cancer Headlines for June with William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

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Episode 81: Magnet Coordinators – Looking Ahead to the Next Magnet Application| Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Ep: 12 Protein Is Having a Moment | Medicine Made General

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Episode 80: Where Your Curiosity Has Taken You – Rhonda Wyskiel | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Does a program exist to implement comprehensive lifestyle changes to preserve cognitive function? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How exactly do lifestyle interventions benefit brain health? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Comprehensive lifestyle changes impact wellbeing in those with early Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How is it that medications to treat Alzheimer’s disease appear to show such a benefit? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If you’ve been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment what’s the best strategy to slow decline? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 24: More Than Words: The Power of Expressed Gratitude in Healthcare | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Episode 79: Academic and Clinical Partnerships | Johns Hopkins Center for Nursing Inquiry

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Increasing rates of obesity and severe obesity may presage increased rates of heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is there another benefit besides weight loss of GLP-1s in people with severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can GLP-1 agonists help in heart failure and severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is severe obesity doing to the heart muscle’s ability to contract? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How is obesity related to a common form of heart failure? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep: 11 Decisions Your Loved Ones Shouldn’t Have to Guess | Medicine Made General

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Ep 23: Leading Through Uncertainty: The Power of Listening in Times of Change | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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A model of your brain may one day be grown in a lab, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What can be learned from what cells dispose of? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Brain organoids can resemble specific parts of the brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can drugs to manage Alzheimer’s disease be tested in organoids? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can brain organoids help in treating people with Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer Headlines With William Nelson, Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

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Medicaid reductions may impact screening for cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Should breast cancer screening be targeted to those at greatest risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can older people with cancer benefit from telephone based contact? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Good news on cancer survival! Elizabeth Tracey reports

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There’s good news regarding survival when cancer if found, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 10. Sleep: The Other Vital Sign | Medicine Made General

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Who is at risk to develop PICS? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What can be done about PICS? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How can you tell if PICS is present? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What kinds of issues may remain after someone has been in an intensive care unit? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is post-intensive care syndrome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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There’s a new technique that may revolutionize one type of T cell therapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can an injectable particle help supercharge your T cells? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can an mRNA containing particle help direct your T cells to specific targets? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Temporary changes to T cells may empower new treatments for cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Messenger RNA can be used to stimulate T cells to fight cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Trust but verify may be needed for pulse oximeters, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How do we account for opposite results from studies on pulse oximeters? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What does a recent FDA funded study on pulse oximeters show? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Data from pulse oximeters can really impact patient care, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is up with pulse oximeters? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 22: A Risk Worth Taking: The Hard Work and Reward of Culture Change| Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Ep 9: Your Guide to Cold & Flu Season | Medicine Made General

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Cancer Headlines with William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

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Will brain training data change policy when it comes to Alzheimer’s prevention? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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One type of brain training seems to be important in reducing Alzheimer’s disease risk, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can cognitive speed training make your brain more connected? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How can we account for why cognitive speed training seems to reduce Alzheimer’s risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How does learning by yourself compare with instruction when it comes to preserving brain function? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Does having to figure things out on your own protect your brain better than other kinds of activities? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What exactly is cognitive speed training? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If you’re looking to preserve brain health doing cognitive speed training may be best, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What does 20 years of follow up tell us about activities to protect the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is it possible to make personal changes to stave off dementia and preserve independence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is an assembloid? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is an organoid? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How do stem cells derived from blood differ from those from embryos? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Stem cells are just the beginning when it comes to modeling your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What might reprogramming cells have to do with understanding Alzheimer’s? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 8: Making Sense of Dementia | Medicine Made General

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Caveat emptor when it comes to hormone therapy for menopause, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is the controversy around hormone therapy for menopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Women need to exercise caution when it comes to hormones of all types, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are the benefits of hormone therapy for women in menopause and perimenopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What might the FDA’s removal of a black box warning on hormone therapy for menopause mean to you? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A couple new approaches to treating a type of leukemia may help shorten treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can the drug celecoxib help some people avoid colorectal cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Since most cervical cancer is caused by infection with a virus, when should screening start? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Will women soon be testing themselves for human papilloma virus, or HPV ? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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As cancer cases in younger people rise, do they all need treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep: 21 Good Science for Well-Being: Better Questions and Interventions that Work | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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If you learn you have cancer would you be comfortable not treating it? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancers increasing among those younger than fifty warrant investigation to discern causes, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What factors do we know are related to the development of childhood allergies? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What’s the best strategy to avoid food allergies in young children? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Should you feed your young child peanut to prevent allergy? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can a new test help those at risk to develop ALS? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Looking retrospectively at blood samples allows researchers to spot ALS, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A new blood test may spot ALS years before symptoms emerge, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How do we ensure safety with medical apps? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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An app to help people manage prediabetes helps, and there’s room for improvement, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 7: Alco-Holidays: A Practical Approach to Drinking Smarter | Medicine Made General

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Are apps the answer when it comes to diabetes prevention? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Would you respond to an app to make changes in your lifestyle? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A new smartphone app can help avoid development of diabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Monitoring blood sugar is important when you’ve been told you have prediabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can you avoid developing diabetes if you have prediabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Diabetes prevention programs may be utilized more with an AI approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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People with prediabetes can benefit from an AI based diabetes prevention program, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How does AI stack up against human provided diabetes prevention programs? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How might very detailed cancer maps inform cancer management and treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is an ultrasensitive DNA test in cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer Headlines With William Nelson

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Should the complex business of organ transplantation be turned over to a private enterprise? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Allowing the market to dictate organ transplantation increases inequity, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Would an organ transplant system that is profit driven be acceptable? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Getting an organ transplant requires a number of factors to be aligned, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How are special interests attempting to change our organ donation system? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 6: Living Well With — or Preventing — Type 2 Diabetes | Medicine Made General

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Curtailing firearm violence must start with the facts, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is the role of technology in reducing firearm violence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What steps are needed to reduce firearm injuries and deaths in the United States? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How might a new paradigm reduce firearm violence in the United States? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A multifaceted approach is being taken to stem firearm violence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep: 19 Making care better: How telemedicine supports access to care and clinician well-being | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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If you’re pregnant or considering pregnancy, should you take acetaminophen? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is acetaminophen use during pregnancy associated with autism in offspring? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A certain type of air pollutant seems to be linked to brain abnormalities, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can air pollution impact on autism? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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PFAS exposure during pregnancy may cause changes in the developing brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Do the environmental pollutants PFAS have any impact on development of autism? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Many vaccines are intended to reduce disease severity, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why were so many people hesitant to take mRNA vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is it about mRNA vaccines that helps us fight cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why haven’t we seen cancer fighting effects with vaccines other than the Covid vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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mRNA could comprise a generic vaccine to be used for cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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The benefit of mRNA vaccines in cancer treatment is ongoing, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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mRNA vaccines take advantage of the body’s own systems, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Might mRNA vaccines replace chemotherapy for cancer treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can mRNA vaccines treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep: 20 Behind the Visits: Innovations in Joy and Retention at JHCP | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Can a new test of cerebrospinal fluid be used for many diseases of the brain and spinal cord? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cerebrospinal fluid may hold the keys to brain cancer identification and treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What does your immune response have to do with brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cerebrospinal fluid can tell lots about brain tumors, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can assessments of brain cancers be done with cerebrospinal fluid? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 5 Part 2: The Power of the Patient Voice in Cancer Care | Medicine Made General

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Ep 5 Part 1: Caring for the Whole Person: Through Cancer & Beyond | Medicine Made General

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When you have screening colonoscopy should you worry about the endoscopist’s skills? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Small risks of recurrent breast cancer may exist after treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Most women who’ve had early breast cancer are not at high risk for recurrence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Aspirin may be of benefit in a number of cancers, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is the benefit of asprin in reducing colorectal cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Care should be taken when using CT in kids, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is the cancer risk posed by CT scans in kids? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Will RNA based tests form the basis for cancer screening and monitoring? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can RNA provide a way to look for cancer recurrence? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Mail in screening tests for colorectal cancer seem effective, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer Headlines for October 2025 With William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

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How should we interpret rising cases of colorectal cancer in younger people? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can taking a supplement help you avoid recurrence of some skin cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why do certain microorganisms colonize your body? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Will you soon be asked to give a specimen to assess your microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What might your microbiome have to do with your cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A new study shows shunting works for normal pressure hydrocephalus, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Fluid buildup in the brain treated with a shunt improves symptoms, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Shunts do work for a condition where fluid builds up in the brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Fluid in the brain known as hydrocephalus is fairly common with aging, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What’s the alternative to computer games to stave off dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 4: Comics & Compassion: Support at Every Stage of Illness | Medicine Made General

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Does using digital technology help people avoid dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Should you consider available formulations of lithium to reduce dementia risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is lithium the key to avoiding the development of dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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You’re in charge of your healthcare decisions, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What’s the best way to craft public health messages? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep. 18 Virtual Nursing: Innovation for Patient Care and Nurse Well-Being | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Information can help people decide to forgo cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are the factors that keep people who won’t benefit from health screenings going? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How might you feel about being told you can stop cancer screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How should preventive healthcare change as people age? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How would you feel about being screened for dementia on a regular basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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People with dementia but no diagnosis can have more problematic hospitalizations, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Undiagnosed dementia can be risky, especially when someone is hospitalized, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Radiation is emerging as an important tool in helping improve immune response in cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can radiation affect distant metastasis? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can radiation improve the success of immunotherapies to treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What does the area around a tumor tell us about response to treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Assessing individual cancer characteristics is needed to determine resistance to new types of therapies, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer Headlines with William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

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Ep 3: Inside GLP-1s: How They Work, Who They Help & What to Expect | Medicine Made General

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Ep. 17 Well-Being by Design: Building Systems That Support the Whole Team | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Laboratory studies demonstrate causation when it comes to cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Do you understand what ‘risk’ means when it comes to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What should you do about getting the RSV vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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With cold and flu season about to begin and Covid continuing, should you get a vaccine if you’re already under the weather? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Monitoring your own symptoms after vaccination helps identify adverse reactions, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Reporting adverse events after receiving a vaccine helps you and others, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Respiratory infection season is almost upon us, and older people in particular should pay attention to their vaccine status, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If you’re sending a child off to college what vaccines should they get? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Which type of vitamin is best? Your pharmacist knows, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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The breadth of expertise of your pharmacist is available to you, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep 2: More than Hot Flashes: Debunking Menopause Myths | Medicine Made General

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What will loss of insurance do to people who already can’t afford their medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Many people who could benefit from medicines to reduce their cardiovascular risk aren’t getting them, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are the barriers to testing for hepatitis C in emergency departments? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Could more targeted screening be helpful in colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Are there aspects to blood testing for colorectal cancer that undermine screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep. 1: Vitamins & Supplements: Should You Be Taking That? | Medicine Made General

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Ep. 16 Fostering a Resilient Workforce Through a Comprehensive Support System | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Is there a role for a new blood test for colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How helpful is a new blood test for colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Supervised exercise helped reduce recurrence of colorectal cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Exercise helped people with colorectal cancer avoid recurrence, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can a new drug that helps hot flashes herald a way to prevent many breast cancers? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Engaging both patients and physicians in the use of cholesterol lowering medicines is needed, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why don’t people who are eligible for cholesterol lowering medicines take them? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Just how much does it cost our healthcare system when people don’t take needed medicines to reduce cardiovascular risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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The gap between recommendations and who is actually taking medicines to lower cardiovascular disease risk is huge, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How many people aren’t taking needed medicines to reduce cardiovascular risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can hot flashes and night sweats be controlled in women having treatment for breast cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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There’s hope for women with breast cancer who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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CAR-T cells are an expensive form of cancer treatment, but other techniques may soon supplant them, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why has it been so hard to use CAR-T cells to treat solid tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Will solid tumors now be treated with CAR-T cells? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Humidity may be as important as temperature when it comes to air conditioning, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If you don’t use AC properly you may make lung problems worse, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Proper AC maintenance is key to healthful use, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Sometimes air conditioning can compromise your respiratory health, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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While AC is great at making us feel comfortable it’s also important for health, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Different types of tumors with a specific mutation may not need surgery, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Are there cancers where surgery may be entirely avoided? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Which types of cancer treatment are impacted by the gut microbiome? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If your gut microbiome isn’t healthy, is there anything that can be done about it? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Your gut microbiome may have much to do with how you respond to cancer therapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer Headlines with William Nelson, Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

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Who is suitable for a breathlessness clinic visit? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is a breathlessness clinic? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are current studies doing when high levels of blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s are found? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are your options if a new blood test says you are at risk for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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People who develop dementia as they age most often have a mixed type, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A truly comprehensive test for Alzheimer’s disease may be on the horizon, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Biomarkers alone don’t mean Alzheimer’s disease is present, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If you get a positive result on the new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, what does that mean? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Who is a candidate for the new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What’s the basis of the new blood test to screen for Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep. 15 When a Colleague Dies Unexpectedly: Considerations for an Institutional Response | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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A protein that’s made in your brain at night helps you remember things, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How do neurodegenerative diseases begin? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A change in a protein in the brain signals possible neurocognitive disorders, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Accurately predicting who’s at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease may now be easier, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What can proteins in the blood and elsewhere teach us about developing dementia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Sickle cell disease should be treated with a half-matched donor approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Gene therapy for sickle cell disease often isn’t a cure, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A new technique is better than gene therapy for curing sickle cell disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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A new technique cures most people with sickle cell disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What’s the best way to cure sickle cell disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Breast cancer survival rates have stalled, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Possible impacts of new cancer drugs need to be cataloged, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How might microplastics be related to cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Your body has microplastics in many places, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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There are things you can do to help protect your respiratory health even with dryer air and poor air quality, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer Headlines with William Nelson, MD

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How is poor air quality related to dry air and respiratory health? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Does dry air contribute to more respiratory infections? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How are dry air and respiratory disease connected? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Dry airways and inflammation are linked, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What are increasing global temperatures doing to your airways? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep. 14 Making Well-Being a Strategic Priority: A Vital Conversation with Deborah Bake| Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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Ep. 13 Taming the EHR: work smarter and improve your work-life balance| Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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How is the decision on how long to continue life sustaining treatment made? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is two weeks long enough to determine if someone will recover consciousness? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How long should someone remain on life support? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Sleep spindles may help discern who may regain consciousness, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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It’s always a challenge when someone is unresponsive to determine how active their brain is, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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The shingles vaccine is on the do not miss list, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Vaccines against human papilloma virus reduce cancers, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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After billions of doses, mRNA vaccines have demonstrated their safety, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why are mRNA vaccines effective? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is RNA and how is it used in vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Should you get more than one vaccine at a time? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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If you are allergic to eggs should you avoid flu vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why might you get an illness even when you’ve been vaccinated? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Why is the flu vaccine sometimes more effective than other times? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Who shouldn’t take a live vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Ep. 12 Department-level Strategies for Well-being | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

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How should you create a sleep routine? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What can you do to protect yourself from developing insomnia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Could your electronic devices mislead you into thinking you have insomnia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What questions should you ask yourself if you suspect you may have insomnia? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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When should you be concerned that you may have a sleep problem? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Should sleep be assessed just like blood pressure or vision? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Solving sleep problems starts with an assessment, Elizabeth Tracey reports.

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How might compromised sleep put one at risk for poorer health outcomes? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is compromised sleep related to the development of cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Increasingly sleep is recognized as a modifiable risk factor for disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Does blood in your urine mean you have cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can a genetic test spot bladder cancer in people who have blood in their urine? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Are there advantages to receiving chemotherapy for cancer before surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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What is the best way to treat esophageal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is it possible to catch nerve pain early in cancer treatment and minimize it? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Can painful nerve pain following cancer therapy be avoided? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How often does someone who’s been treated for cancer experience nerve pain? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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How does reporting symptoms impact cancer care for patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Is it helpful for people with advanced cancer to report their symptoms regularly? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Patients with advanced cancer can help in their own care, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Cancer headlines with William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, February 2025

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Ep. 11 Supporting Health Care Workers Through Credentialing and Licensing Reform | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being