Day: August 31, 2009
New provost steps into his post
August 31, 2009
“The opportunity to work with people with such diverse backgrounds and interests is one of the wonderful things about the job of provost,” said Lloyd Minor.
Finance and Administration names new controller
August 31, 2009
Gregory Oler appointment is part of reorganization of the university office
Welcome to Johns Hopkins
August 31, 2009
The Class of 2013— and carloads of stuff—arrives at Homewood
Preparing for the arrival of students—and the H1N1 virus
August 31, 2009
After months of planning, university puts its anti-flu campaign into motion
School of Public Health testing H1N1 flu vaccine
August 31, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been selected by CSL Biotherapies of Australia as the lead site to conduct tests for a vaccine against the new H1N1 influenza. The trial will vaccinate 1,300 adults from sites across the United States and is one of the largest H1N1 vaccine trials currently under way. […]
Computational process zeroes in on top genetic cancer suspects
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the DNA changes that are most likely to promote cancer. The goal is to provide critical help to researchers who are poring over numerous newly discovered gene mutations, many of which are harmless or have no connection […]
Common sleeping disorder ups chances of dying for snorers
August 31, 2009
Nightly bouts of interrupted, oxygen-deprived sleep from a collapsed airway in the upper neck raise the chances of dying in middle-aged to elderly people by as much as 46 percent in the most severe cases, according to a landmark study on sleep apnea by lung experts at Johns Hopkins and six other U.S. medical centers […]
LEGOs show researchers what happens inside lab-on-a-chip
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children’s toy to help them visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more […]
Setting priorities for patient-safety efforts means hard choices
August 31, 2009
Is it more urgent for hospitals, doctors and nurses to focus resources on preventing the thousands of falls that injure hospitalized patients each year, or to home in on preventing rare but dramatic instances of wrong-side surgery? Is it best to concentrate immediately on preventing pediatric medical errors, or on preventing drug interactions in the […]
European REACH legislation may require more animals, funds
August 31, 2009
The European Union’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of CHemical substances) legislation is intended as a comprehensive safety evaluation for commercial chemicals used in consumer products that are traded in Europe at amounts more than one ton per year. However, implementation of the regulation may require 54 million research animals and 9.5 billion euros […]