Health Newsfeed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Latest Episodes:

An app to help people manage prediabetes helps, and there’s room for improvement, Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 22, 2025

Show notes

Prediabetes can be controlled with multiple lifestyle interventions to avoid development of diabetes, and an app helps. That’s according to research by Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues. Mathioudakis says the results are consistent with that …

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

Are apps the answer when it comes to diabetes prevention? Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 15, 2025

Show notes

Using a number of AI driven prompts, a new app helped people with prediabetes make several lifestyle changes to improve their blood sugar. The app was developed by diabetes expert Nas Mathioudakis and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, and compares favorably with …

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

Would you respond to an app to make changes in your lifestyle? Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 15, 2025

Show notes

Prediabetes can be controlled and diabetes avoided with use of an AI driven app, a new study by Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. The app performed just as well as human led coaching …

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

A new smartphone app can help avoid development of diabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 15, 2025

Show notes

An AI driven app helped people with prediabetes avoid development of diabetes as well as human-led coaching, a study by Johns Hopkins diabetes expert Nas Mathiodakis and colleagues has shown. Mathioudakis :The app was using built in inputs of the …

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

Monitoring blood sugar is important when you’ve been told you have prediabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 15, 2025

Show notes

Diabetes is known to cause increased risk for cardiovascular disease and many other health issues, so if you’ve been told you have prediabetes it’s important to stave off frank diabetes. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one …

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

Can you avoid developing diabetes if you have prediabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 15, 2025

Show notes

Prediabetes is a condition where your blood sugar is higher than it should be, but not high enough to be called diabetes, and if you’ve been told you have it you can take steps to avoid transitioning to diabetes. That’s …

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

Diabetes prevention programs may be utilized more with an AI approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 08, 2025

Show notes

People who have prediabetes frequently go on to develop diabetes, but diabetes prevention programs or DPPs can help. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one developer of an AI based DPP, explains what’s at stake. Nestoras Mathioudakis: …

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

People with prediabetes can benefit from an AI based diabetes prevention program, Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 08, 2025

Show notes

Diabetes prevention programs or DPPs were developed by the CDC over a decade ago to help people with prediabetes avoid frank development of diabetes, but very few people access them. Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins and one …

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

How does AI stack up against human provided diabetes prevention programs? Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 08, 2025

Show notes

For people with the condition called prediabetes, prevention to full blown diabetes is key. Over a decade ago the CDC developed diabetes prevention programs or DPPs to help but very few people access them. Now a new AI based DPP …

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

How might very detailed cancer maps inform cancer management and treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports Dec 08, 2025

Show notes

Have you heard of ultrasensitive genetic testing for cancer? This method produces a very detailed characterization of someone’s tumor, and William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says it then may be used for subsequent decision …

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