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

July 21, 2025 • 1 min

A blood test can identify the majority of colorectal cancers, a new study finds, when compared with the gold standard, colonoscopy, for screening. Yet whether this test can be trusted when it says cancer is NOT present is another matter, …

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

July 21, 2025 • 1 min

Blood tests for cancer are much in the news lately, including one to test for colorectal cancer. Such a test, if it works as well as methods like colonoscopy or fecal immunochemical testing, would allow people to give tedious aspects …

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

July 21, 2025 • 1 min

Regular, supervised exercise helped people who’d been treated for colorectal cancer avoid recurrence of the disease, a new study shows, adding to the burgeoning body of evidence demonstrating the clear health benefits of exercise in many settings, including avoiding cancer …

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

July 21, 2025 • 1 min

Some drugs used to treat breast cancer might also be used to prevent it, but the hot flashes and other troublesome side effects make that an unlikely choice for many women. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says …

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

July 14, 2025 • 1 min

Among people who’ve had a heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular event and need a cholesterol lowering medicine, about 2/3 will take one. Among those who have not had such an event but do have high cholesterol only about a …

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

July 14, 2025 • 1 min

Only about 25 percent of people who need cholesterol lowering medicines based on blood tests take them, with about 2/3 of those who’ve had a cardiovascular event doing so, a study by Caleb Alexander, a drug safety and efficacy expert at …

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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

July 14, 2025 • 1 min

Not taking medicines to lower cholesterol when you clearly need them increases your risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. Yet a study by Caleb Alexander, a drug safety and efficacy expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, shows …

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

July 14, 2025 • 1 min

Cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes, remains the number one cause of death in the United States, yet many people who should be taking medicines to lower their risk by lowering cholesterol aren’t. That’s according to a study by …

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

July 14, 2025 • 1 min

Most people have heard of statins, drugs that lower cholesterol and consequent cardiovascular disease risk. Caleb Alexander, a drug safety and efficacy expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, have looked at just how many people who should be taking such …

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

July 7, 2025 • 1 min

Hot flashes and night sweats are called vasomotor symptoms, and they’re experienced by many women approaching menopause and those being treated for certain breast cancers. Now a new class of drugs has been developed to help. William Nelson, director of …

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

July 7, 2025 • 1 min

Women whose breast cancer has estrogen receptors are usually treated with estrogen depleting medicines, with the consequence that they have hot flashes and night sweats, so called ‘vasomotor symptoms,’ that many describe as worse than menopause. Now a new medicine …

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

July 7, 2025 • 1 min

CAR-T cells, a highly activated immune cell, have been used to treat a solid tumor, stomach cancer, for the first time. Yet the fact remains that CAR-Ts are expensive and time consuming to produce. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director …

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

July 7, 2025 • 1 min

For the first time CAR-T cells, a highly activated type of immune cell, have been used with some success to treat stomach cancer, a so-called solid tumor. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says solid …

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

July 7, 2025 • 1 min

You’ve probably heard of CAR-T cells, a type of immune cells taken from someone’s body, grown up in a lab and trained to attack their cancer. CAR-Ts are known to be good for treating blood cancers like leukemia, and for …

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

June 30, 2025 • 1 min

When it comes to managing with the dog days of summer, air conditioning is very helpful, especially for people with chronic lung problems. Johns Hopkins lung health expert William Checkley says clean systems with filters that are regularly changed are …

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

June 30, 2025 • 1 min

People with lung conditions like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, abbreviated COPD, rely on air conditioning in the summer to help keep their symptoms from getting much worse. William Checkley, a lung health expert at Johns Hopkins, says it’s …

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

June 30, 2025 • 1 min

If you have any respiratory issues you likely benefit from air conditioning when the weather is hot. Lung health expert William Checkley at Johns Hopkins says you must be aware of the system’s maintenance requirements to reap its benefits. Checkley: …

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

June 30, 2025 • 1 min

For many people air conditioning is important for alleviating symptoms of chronic respiratory disease, but Johns Hopkins lung health expert William Checkley says it’s still necessary to be aware of how AC can impact on the function of your respiratory …

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

June 30, 2025 • 1 min

As the northern hemisphere enters full summer, many people shut their windows and turn on the air conditioning, or AC. William Checkley, a lung health expert at Johns Hopkins, says as with many things in life, it’s important to have …

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

June 23, 2025 • 1 min

Mismatch repair is just what it sounds like: when a cell divides and makes new DNA strands when a mistake is made it repairs them. Some types of cancers with a mismatch repair mutation may now be treated with an …

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Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Episodes

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.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}How helpful is a new blood test for colorectal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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