Johns Hopkins Medicine A Womans Journey: Health Insights that Matter

Johns Hopkins Medicine A Womans Journey
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Join physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine for its women's health podcast series, A Woman's Journey: Healthy Insights That Matter, on the first of each month. Host Lillie Shockney, acclaimed humorist cancer survivor discusses the latest in women's health with Johns Hopkins experts. Learn about medical advances and stay informed. For access to more women's health information or to learn more about A Woman's Journey, please visit: hopkinsmedicine.org/awomansjourney or call 410-955-8660

  1. 02/27/2025

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Intimacy - Changes that Happen During a Woman's Lifetime

    Our moderator Lillie Shockney talks with Drs. Kate Thomas and Tammy Senn about the intimacy levels that change during a woman's lifetime.

    46 min

  2. 02/27/2025

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Stiff Person Syndrome

    In this podcast, our moderator Lillie Shockney is talking with Dr. Scott Newsome, director of the Johns Hopkins Stiff Person Syndrome Center.

    56 min
  3. Healthy Insights that Matter: Can You Smell The Roses?

    01/01/2025

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Can You Smell The Roses?

    COVID first brought to global attention that our ability to smell could be affected by disease.  In this month's podcast, moderator Lillie Shockney sits down with otolaryngologist and clinic director of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center – Green Spring Station, Dr. Nicholas Rowan, to discuss anosmia, which is the partial or complete loss of the sense of smell.

    42 min
  4. Healthy Insights that Matter: Keeping Your Wits About You During the Holiday Season

    12/01/2024

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Keeping Your Wits About You During the Holiday Season

    December is the start of the holiday season. The holiday season can be filled with love and laughter, but for some, it can also be stressful and overwhelming.  In this month's podcast, moderator Lillie Shockney talks to clinical psychologist Dr. Neda Gould, who serves as director of the Mindfulness Program at Johns Hopkins and associate director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Anxiety Disorders Clinic about techniques we can use to deal with holiday stress and interpersonal conflict.

    30 min
  5. Healthy Insights that Matter: Vaccines and You

    10/29/2024

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Vaccines and You

    With every fall, comes a new flu vaccine. As we age, vaccines become an increasingly important tool to keep us healthy and avoiding unnecessary illnesses. In this month's podcast, moderator Lillie Shockney is joined by infectious disease expert, Dr. Anna Durbin, to discuss various different vaccines and the importance of vaccine compliance as we age.

    44 min
  6. Healthy Insights that Matter: Benefits of Soy and Other Phytonutrients for Breast Cancer Patients

    10/01/2024

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Benefits of Soy and Other Phytonutrients for Breast Cancer Patients

    October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation: 1 in 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. In 2024, an estimated 310,720 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. An estimated 42,250 U.S. women will die from breast cancer in 2024. In this month's podcast, moderator, nurse and two-time breast cancer survivor, Lillie Shockney, sits down with medical oncologist Dr. Channing Paller, associate director of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, to discuss her study showing that natural compounds derived from soy and other plants can reduce breast cancer recurrence and improve survival.

    29 min
  7. Healthy Insights that Matter: DNA & Its Link to Chronic Inflammation

    09/01/2024

    Healthy Insights that Matter: DNA & Its Link to Chronic Inflammation

    As baby boomers grow older, the World Health Organization projects that by 2060, 95 million people will be age 65 or older. This month, moderator Lillie Shockney is joined by geriatrician and researcher Peter Abadir, an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to discuss aging well, especially the role that our DNA plays in the development of chronic inflammation.

    43 min
  8. Healthy Insights that Matter: Symptoms You Shouldn't Ignore

    08/01/2024

    Healthy Insights that Matter: Symptoms You Shouldn't Ignore

    According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), the U.S. will see just over 2 million new cancer cases in 2024, as well as over 611,000 cancer deaths.  In this month's podcast, moderator Lillie Shockney is joined by medical oncologist and researcher Dr. Neeha Zaidi to discuss vague symptoms — such as unexplained weight loss, fatigue, bleeding, GI problems and new lumps or masses — that can be among the signs of cancers.

    36 min
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Join physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine for its women's health podcast series, A Woman's Journey: Healthy Insights That Matter, on the first of each month. Host Lillie Shockney, acclaimed humorist cancer survivor discusses the latest in women's health with Johns Hopkins experts. Learn about medical advances and stay informed. For access to more women's health information or to learn more about A Woman's Journey, please visit: hopkinsmedicine.org/awomansjourney or call 410-955-8660

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