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| Site Title: | Johns Hopkins Medicine, based in Baltimore, Maryland |
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Fruit Fly Discovery Generates Buzz About Brain-Damaging Disorder In Children- 11/26/08 Johns Hopkins researchers have used fruit flies to gain new insights into a brain-damaging disorder afflicting children. Their work?suggests a possible therapy for the disease, for which there is currently no treatment.... |
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Johns Hopkins World AIDS Day Events- 11/26/08 Faculty, staff and patients at The Johns Hopkins Hospital will mark World AIDS Day with several events designed to highlight the need for continued community leadership in Baltimore to deal with the city’s soaring HIV rate. More than 16,000 Baltimoreans are infected with HIV, earning the city the dubious distinction of having the nation’s second highest rate of infection.... |
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Study Supports Value Of Advanced CT Scans To Check For Clogged Arteries - 11/26/08 In a development that researchers say is likely to quell concerns about the value of costly computed tomography (CT) scans to diagnose coronary artery blockages, an international team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins reports solid evidence that the newer, more powerful 64-CT scans can easily and correctly identify people with major blood vessel disease and is nearly as accurate as invasive coro... |
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Inhaled Corticosteroids Raise Pneumonia Risk For Lung Disease Sufferers- 11/25/08 Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins are calling for physicians to show much greater caution in prescribing inhaled corticosteroid drugs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after finding evidence that the widely used anti-inflammatory medications increase the risk of pneumonia by a full third.... |
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Potassium Loss From Blood Pressure Drugs May Explain Higher Risk Of Adult Diabetes- 11/24/08 Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a drop in blood potassium levels caused by diuretics commonly prescribed for high blood pressure could be the reason why people on those drugs are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. The drugs helpfully accelerate loss of fluids, but also deplete important chemicals, including potassium, so that those who take them are generally advised to eat ban... |
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$9.8 Million Grant To Map "Epigenome" Of Schizophrenia- 11/21/08 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and four other academic medical centers have been awarded a $9.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health to pin down inherited changes that occur outside a cell’s DNA sequence in people with schizophrenia. Unlike changes or mutations in the DNA sequence itself, epigenetic marks or alterations can be affected by a ... |
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Johns Hopkins Researcher Shares Society For Neuroscience Young Investigator Award- 11/17/08 The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is awarding the Young Investigator Award to co-recipient Hongjun Song, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for his work in understanding how adult neural stem cells mature into nerve cells and integrate into the existing neuronal circuitry.... |
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More Is Better: Evidence Mounts That There Is Safety In Numbers For Community Hospitals Performing Emergency Angioplasty- 11/12/08 Heart experts at Johns Hopkins have evidence that life-saving coronary angioplasty at community hospitals is safer when physicians and hospital staff have more experience with the procedure.... |
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Scientists Map Steps To Block Key Enzyme Acction In Heart Failure- 11/11/08 Taking a cue from the way drugs like Viagra put the biological brakes on a key enzyme involved in heart failure, scientists at Johns Hopkins have mapped out a key chemical step involved in blocking the enzyme.... |
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Estrogen, Testosterone May Affect Atherosclerosis- 11/11/08 Naturally produced sex hormones may influence the risk and progression of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, Johns Hopkins researchers report in a recent study. The findings may help explain the increased risk men have of developing heart disease, which runs about twofold higher than women’s heart disease risk worldwide.... |
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Quintet Of Proteins Forms New, Early-Warning Blood Test Before Heart Attack Strikes - 11/9/08 A team of Johns Hopkins biochemists has identified a mixed bag of five key proteins out of thousands secreted into blood draining from the heart’s blood vessels that may together or in certain quantities form the basis of a far more accurate early warning test than currently in use of impending heart attack in people with severely reduced blood flow, or ischemia.... |
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Best Of The Best In Cardiovascular Research Honored With Blumenthal Prizes - 11/5/08 Outstanding researchers in cardiovascular medicine will be honored in The Johns Hopkins Hospital Houck Lobby at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov.5, as part of the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute’s annual awards ceremony named to commemorate the late Hopkins physician Stanley L. Blumenthal, B.A. ’39 and M.D. ’43.... |
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Memo To ER Docs: Send Young Victims Of Violence For One-on-one Counseling - 11/3/08 A study of 113 children and teens physically victimized by peers concludes that one-on-one mentoring about how to safely avoid conflict and diffuse threats makes them far less likely to become victims again if guidance is initiated in the immediate aftermath of the attack.... |
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Diagnosis Of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Predicts High Risk And High Rate Of Further Infection In Teenagers - 11/3/08 A study among Baltimore inner-city teenage girls treated for pelvic inflammatory disease shows they are highly vulnerable to subsequent sexually transmitted infections (STI) — sometimes within a few weeks or months of their treatment.... |
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Drinking Milk To Ease Milk Allergy? - 10/29/08 Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease, and even help them completely overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and conducted jointly with Duke University.... |
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REM Study Shows Brain Functions Same Way Awake Or Asleep - 10/28/08 Johns Hopkins researchers have found strong evidence supporting the view that the sleeping mind functions the same as the waking mind, a discovery that could significantly alter basic understanding of the normal and abnormal brain.... |
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Pioneering Pediatric Epidemiologist Janet Hardy, M.D., Dies At 92 - 10/28/08 Janet Hardy, professor emerita of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and an eminent pediatric epidemiologist whose pioneering work spanning six decades continues to influence modern-day neonatology and fetal medicine, died Oct. 23 at the age of 92 in Glen Arm, Md.... |
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Collegiate Inventors Competition Recognizes Johns Hopkins Medical Student - 10/24/08 A Johns Hopkins medical student was chosen as one of 12 finalists to compete for a sizeable cash award and the prestige of being named the nation’s best collegiate inventor.... |
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If Your Systolic Stinks, "Rotten Egg" Gas May Be Why - 10/23/08 Anyone with a nose knows the rotten-egg odor of hydrogen sulfide, a gas generated by bacteria living in the human colon. Now an international team of scientists has discovered that cells inside the blood vessels of mice — as well as in people, no doubt — naturally make the gassy stuff, and that it controls blood pressure.... |
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Sudden Cardiac Death Number One Risk For Patients On Dialysis - 10/22/08 In a 10-year study of more than a thousand kidney failure patients, sudden cardiac death emerged as the number one cause of death for patients on dialysis, according to a Johns Hopkins researcher. The study, already published online and appearing in the Nov. 2 issue of Kidney International, identified systemic inflammatory response and malnutrition as key risk factors for the fatal heart attacks.... |
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More Than $2M In Gifts Go To Johns Hopkins Patient Safety - 10/21/08 The Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group (QSRG), led by award-winning patient safety researcher Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., has received gifts worth more than $2 million to expand efforts to further reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive care units. The philanthropic support comes through a matching fund gift from an anonymous donor and the Sandl... |
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Detect Sweet Cacophony While Listening To Cellular Cross-Talk - 10/20/08 Johns Hopkins scientists were dubious in the early 1980s when they stumbled on small sugar molecules lurking in the centers of cells; not only were they not supposed to be there, but they certainly weren't supposed to be repeatedly attaching to and detaching from proteins, effectively switching them on and off. The conventional wisdom was that the job of turning proteins on and off -- and thus de... |
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Swamping Bad Cells With Good In ALS Animal Models Helps Sustain Breathing, New Johns Hopkins Study Shows - 10/19/08 In a disease like ALS - one that's always fatal and that has a long history of research-resistant biology - finding a proof of principle in animal models is significant.... |
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Presidential Campaign Health Politics Forum At Johns Hopkins - 10/15/08 The Department of Medicine will host a forum featuring official surrogates of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama at a special Grand Rounds. The format will include presentations representing each candidate’s position on health care issues and policies, including NIH funding for scientific research and ensuring fairness as it relates to indigent care and access.... |
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Three JHU Researchers Elected To Institute Of Medicine- 10/15/08 Three Johns Hopkins University researchers have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. Harry C. Dietz, M.D., Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., and Nancy Kass, D.S., are among 65 new members nationwide. Election to this prestigious body affirms their remarkable contributions to medical science, health care and public health, as well as to the education ... |
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Consortium To Respond Effectively To The AIDS/Tuberculosis Epidemic Gets $32 Million Boost From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- 10/14/08 An international effort led by physician scientists at Johns Hopkins to control the global spread of HIV-related tuberculosis and treat the dual epidemics in hardest-hit countries has received $32 million in additional funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.... |
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Former Head Of Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Wins Institute Of Medicine's 2008 Sarnat Award In Mental Health- 10/13/08 The Institute of Medicine has awarded the 2008 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health to Paul R. McHugh, M.D., the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and professor of mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.... |
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Mouse Studies Suggest Daily Dose Of Ginkgo May Prevent Brain Cell Damage After A Stroke- 10/9/08 Working with genetically engineered mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that daily doses of a standardized extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree can prevent or reduce brain damage after an induced stroke.... |
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Children With Cystic Fibrosis Not Well Covered By Guidelines For Vitamin D Needs - 10/8/08 Existing recommendations for treating vitamin D deficiency in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) are too low to cover the serious need, leaving most at high risk for bone loss and rickets, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.... |
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Get Moving: Johns Hopkins Research Shows Early Mobility Better Than Bed Rest For ICU Patients - 10/7/08 A critical care specialist at Johns Hopkins who has reviewed recent studies of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and data from The Johns Hopkins Hospital concludes that the routine use of deep sedation and bed rest in ICU patients may be causing unnecessary and long-term physical impairment and poor quality of life after hospital discharge.... |
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