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This week’s topics include fixing holes in the heart, the role of inflammation in heart disease, metal on metal hip implant, and whether...
Texting is entering medicine with a vengeance, with a multitude of studies showing how it can benefit patient management with regard...
A diagnosis of metastatic cancer is a challenge to live as well as you can, for the time you have left. Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for couples facing that diagnosis, to help caregivers and patients help each other. We talk about whether the retreat could be a model for other hos...
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This week’s topics include bugs for dinner, a new treatment for hepatitis C, pelvic prolapse surgery, and paying for health in developing countries.
Cholera and chicken pox continue to cause high death rates in developing countries, especially among children. In his memoir, 10 Lesson in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow’s Leaders, one of the country’s leading epidemiologists, Dr. Alfred Sommer of Johns Hopkins, shares his ide...
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May 20, 2013When cancer has spread from one part of the body to another, it’s called metastatic. People who have metastatic cancer will usually have the disease for the rest of their lives. The Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for people with metastatic cance...
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This week’s topics include preventing inappropriate shocks with implanted defibrillators, cleaning baby’s pacifier, supplements and macular degeneration, and recommendations for lung cancer screening in smokers.
The long-awaited publication this month of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – the so-called bible of mental health professionals -- has stirred controversies. Doctors and researchers have bickered over which disorders are in and which are out. We delve into the controversy...
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Back pain, knee pain and other forms of “boomeritis,” during a visit with Dr. Brian Block of Maryland Pain Specialists....
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This week’s topics include surgery versus PT for meniscal repairs, dangers of azithromycin, HIV screening recommendations, and allergies in kids in the US and elsewhere.
May 1, 2013States across the country have been preparing for the Affordable Care Act…and so have health insurance companies. Maryland’s largest health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, wants to increase its premiums for individual plans by 25-percent to account for people with pre-existin...
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This week’s topics include H7N9, diabetes report card, valproate and autism, and worms in Chinese schoolchildren.
The Baltimore City Council approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s $2.4 billion operating...
WYPR's Fraser Smith and Scott Calvert of the Baltimore Sun talk about how the City Council is...
WYPR's Fraser Smith and David Moon, political consultant and blogger at Maryland Juice talk...
