Johns Hopkins Medicine: A Woman's Journey Session I

Session I

Act II: Post Menopause
Preventing and Managing Heart Disease - A1
Cardiologist Dr. Roger Blumenthal discusses how to assess your personal risks of heart disease as well as proven preventive strategies to improve your cardiovascular health.

Body Parts
Advances in Refractive Eye Surgery - B1
Ophthalmologist Dr. Terrence O'Brien details laser eye surgery alternatives that allow many to shed their glasses and reviews future options to correct vision.

Choices
Power Foods: Eating Right for Disease Prevention - C1
Registered dietitian Amanda Ryan identifies foods that may help prevent disease and suggests how to realistically add these foods to your diet.

Disease Prevention
Preventing Memory Loss - D1
Psychiatrist Dr. Constantine Lyketsos offers strategies to improve the retention of memory as he explains the anatomy of our memory and how age and disease affect it.

Family
The Turbulence of Adolescence - F1
Psychiatrist Dr. Richard D'Alli reviews thought and behavior in adolescence and how child psychiatrists differentiate between those that are normal and abnormal.

Medical Rounds
Advances in Diabetes - M1
Endocrinologist Dr. Christopher Saudek discusses new treatments for diabetes, including fast acting insulin, new pills, continuous monitors and other ways to achieve better control of diabetes.

New Trends
Viagra in Men and Women - N1
Urologist Dr. Arthur Burnett presents the basic physiology of sexual responses and the current role of Viagra in the treatment of sexual dysfunction.

Self
Insomnia: Why Women Are So Tired - S1
Sleep disorders specialist and psychiatrist Dr. David Neubauer examines how sleep is supposed to work, and why women more vulnerable to problems with their sleep.

The Mind
Guilt and Shame - T1
Psychiatrist Dr. Everett Siegel explores guilt and shame, explaining why these feelings manifest themselves and how we can reduce them both in interpersonal relationships and in a work environment.

Women and Cancer
New Drugs in the Fight Against Cancer - W1
Medical oncologist Dr. Deborah Kay Armstrong discusses Raloxifene and Tamoxifen and explains how these Simulated Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) work to prevent and treat cancer.

X Chromosome
Hysterectomy: What, Why, When, Where, and for Whom? - X1
Gynecologist Dr. Edward Wallach conveys why hysterectomies are performed, how they may be avoided, the type of hysterectomies required for various conditions, and how to choose a gynecologist.