What causes rheumatoid arthritis? The search, by scientists around the world, has been exhaustive, and the prey surprisingly elusive – but in breakthrough Johns Hopkins research, scientists Maximilian Konig, M.D., and Felipe Andrade, M.D., Ph.D., believe they have pinpointed one culprit: a kind of bacteria that lives in the mouth and is present in gum […]
“Tissue engineering is the ultimate in reconstruction,” says David McConkey, Ph.D., Director of the Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute at Johns Hopkins, “and we have a fantastic team” working to create a new bladder out of a patient’s own cells. Using a scaffold to layer stem cells and similarly “plastic” cells called progenitor cells – kind […]
We are living longer, and 75 is not the ripe old age it used to be. But it’s a cutoff age for PSA screening – and this is missing cancer in men who really need to be treated, say Brady investigators. “There is increasing evidence that this age-based approach is significantly flawed,” says Johns Hopkins […]
Before we start this discussion, please hear these words: this is not about your right to smoke marijuana. I don’t care if you spend every waking moment high as a kite, as long as you don’t operate heavy machinery or endanger anyone else. I do not care. That’s not my business. However, I’m worried about […]
If your mom had breast cancer, that could raise your risk for prostate cancer. If you have aggressive prostate cancer, your daughter might be at higher risk for ovarian or breast cancer. Some “bad apple” genes run in families; doctors know what they are, and there’s a blood test to look for them. For the […]
I’ve had a lot of requests to print a talk I recently gave. Here it is. — Janet Recently, I took part in a large, two-day dementia seminar in Prescott, Arizona, presented by Prescott United Methodist Church for the community. There was a full house both days; hundreds of people came, which shows that the […]
Does the Paleo diet, basically, eating lean meats, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables – foods our Stone Age, hunter-gatherer ancestors could have eaten – really make you feel better? If it does, then why? And how, exactly? What happens to the microbiome – the countless bacteria that live inside the gut – when you stop […]