Anchor lead: If you’ve been told you snore, following up with your physician is likely a good idea, Elizabeth Tracey reports Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, most often is identified when someone is told they snore. Robin Yang, a surgeon who specializes in the condition at Johns Hopkins, says OSA isn’t just a nuisance for […]

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Anchor lead: A lot of people have put off routine cancer screening during the pandemic, and that may lead to more precise use of screening tools, Elizabeth Tracey reports PSA testing, screening colonoscopy, and other cancer screenings have often fallen by the wayside during the COVID-19 pandemic. The next several months will reveal to what […]

Cancer Screening

Anchor lead: If you’ve survived breast cancer, how long should you continue annual screening mammography? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve survived breast cancer and are now in your 70s or beyond, do you still need to have screening mammography? That question was examined in a recent study, and William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer […]

Who Needs Screening?

Anchor lead: Women who get vaccinated for Covid-19 may develop swollen lymph nodes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Covid-19 immunizations may cause the lymph nodes in the armpit, or axilla, to become swollen and tender for a time. Women who experience this side effect need not worry that they’ve suddenly developed breast cancer. That’s according to William […]

Vaccination and Lymph Nodes

Anchor lead: A new study suggests quite a few people who look to be headed to develop diabetes may not, Elizabeth Tracey reports Prediabetes refers to a host of conditions such as elevated blood markers that seem to point the way toward frank diabetes, but now a new study that breaks people with the condition […]

Prediabetes Significance

Anchor lead: If you have diabetes what you eat really does make a difference, Elizabeth Tracey reports Low carb diets do help people with diabetes improve their health, a recent meta-analysis found, although the benefits seemed to wane after a year. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, did a study finding a similar […]

Eating for Health

Anchor lead: How can the impact of carbohydrates be tested best? Elizabeth Tracey reports Carbohydrate consumption may be an important tool in helping control diabetes, a new meta-analysis suggests, and most helpful is knowing which carbs to avoid. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says there is data on that. Kalyani: The best […]

What’s a Low Carb?

Anchor lead: What is the impact of a low carbohydrate diet in people with diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Low carbohydrate diets seem to go in and out of favor, with a recent analysis of studies looking at their impact on those with diabetes. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, says there did seem […]

Low Carb

Anchor lead: Many healthcare workers have died in this pandemic, Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost 3000 healthcare workers in the US had died of Covid-19 at the end of December 2020, Kaiser Health News reports. Patricia Davidson, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, says she can only imagine what an outcry there would be […]

Occupational Safety

Anchor lead: Even as the pandemic slows down, clinicians are wearier than ever, Elizabeth Tracey reports Long shifts at the hospital, constantly wearing personal protective equipment, worrying about whether you might bring home Covid-19 to family and friends, and high rates of death. Many studies are pointing to these factors as important in the high […]

Clinician Burnout

Anchor lead: Raising awareness of hearing numbers may interrupt progression to dementia for some, Elizabeth Tracey reports You should know your hearing number. That’s according to Frank Lin, a hearing expert at Johns Hopkins and advocate for making this number as well-known as blood pressure numbers. Lin says one reason is the link between hearing […]

Dementia and Hearing Loss

Anchor lead: New technologies will help everyone make sense of their own hearing ability, Elizabeth Tracey reports New hearing devices are poised to enter the market as a change enacted by Congress will allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter, and are expected to be dramatically less expensive than those sold now. Frank […]

Assessing Hearing Yourself

Anchor lead: One reason to know your hearing number is to help you decide if you’d like to treat it, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve ever had your hearing assessed, you may be unaware that your hearing is reported as a number. That number should be more widely used, says Frank Lin, a hearing expert […]

Hearing Treatment

Anchor lead: Knowing your hearing number will help in health related decisions, Elizabeth Tracey reports There’s a compelling case to be made for reporting hearing levels using numbers that are already in use among audiologists. That’s according to Frank Lin, a hearing expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues in a recent position paper. Lin: If […]

Being Practical

Anchor lead: Hearing is a simple number you should know, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hearing should be a reported number just like cholesterol. That’s according to Frank Lin, a hearing expert at Johns Hopkins, in a recent paper advocating for widespread adoption of the practice. Lin: You know roughly your blood pressure, people who have diabetes […]

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