Goal: Find out if diet and exercise affect cardiovascular health
Everyone knows that a healthy diet and adequate exercise are effective weapons in the battle against obesity and type 2 diabetes.
‘Scaffolding’ protein changes in heart strengthen link between Alzheimer’s, chronic heart failure
An international team of biochemists and cardiologists led by researchers at Johns Hopkins reports evidence from studies in animals and humans supporting a link between Alzheimer’s disease and chronic heart failure, two of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States.
Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war, study finds
Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management specialist.
Surprising drug library find: 1930s med slows tumor growth
Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer.
Less physical activity may not be factor in adolescent obesity rates
Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Young athletes need dual screening tests for heart defects
To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according to new research from heart experts at Johns Hopkins.
New ‘schizophrenia gene’ prompts test of potential drug target
Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully “rescue” animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged, by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and autism.
Consumer electronics can help improve patient health
Electronic tools and technology applications for consumers can help improve health care processes such as adherence to medication and clinical outcomes like smoking cessation, according to a report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
MESSENGER reveals more territory on Mercury
A NASA spacecraft’s third and final flyby of the planet Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet’s surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown planet.
CCP awarded USAID grant for worldwide malaria project
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs has been awarded a five-year grant from the United States Agency for International Development to ensure the distribution and proper use of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, known as LLINs, in malaria endemic countries.
Low cholesterol may shrink risk for high-grade prostate cancer
Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.
Insulating film could lead to less-power-hungry screen displays
Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have turned it into a thin film insulator, which instead blocks the flow of electricity but can induce large electric currents elsewhere. The material, called solution-deposited beta-alumina, could have important applications in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
Report looks at ninth-grade retention rates, early intervention
More than 90,000 students in six states repeated ninth grade in 2004–2005, with nearly three in 10 students repeating in one of them, according to a new report from the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Nursing Workforce Diversity grant awarded to Johns Hopkins
Of the almost 135,000 students enrolled in baccalaureate nursing programs in 2008, only 26 percent were minorities, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing hopes to change that.
How induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic ones
The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities.
