Issue: 2011 October 10
Place, not race, may be larger determinant of health disparities
October 10, 2011
Where you live could play a larger role in health disparities than originally thought, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Examining a racially integrated low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, the researchers found that, with the exception of smoking, nationally reported disparities in hypertension, diabetes, obesity among […]
Hide-and-seek: Altered HIV can’t evade immune system
October 10, 2011
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have modified HIV in a way that makes it no longer able to suppress the immune system. Their work, they say in a report published online Sept. 19 in the journal Blood, could remove a major hurdle in HIV vaccine development and lead to new treatments. “Something about the HIV virus […]
Calendar — October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
COLLOQUIA Wed., Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m. “Type Ia Supernovae: What Are They?” an STSci colloquium with Mario Livio, STSci. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Wed., Oct. 12, 5 to 7 p.m. “‘Lo Here I Burn’: Musical Figurations and Fantasies of Male Desire in Early Modern England,” a Peabody DMA Musicology colloquium with Linda Austern, Northwestern […]
Talks in Provost’s Lecture Series videotaped and available online
October 10, 2011
Anyone unable to attend this year’s Provost’s Lecture Series, which begins this week, will still be able to see and hear the talks. All the installments will be videotaped and available within a week on the Office of the Provost’s website. Provost Lloyd B. Minor created the lecture series in 2010 to spread the wealth […]
MRI safe for people with implanted cardiac devices
October 10, 2011
Magnetic resonance imaging, an important diagnostic test, has traditionally been off-limits to more than 2 million people in the United States who have an implanted pacemaker to regulate heart rhythms, or an implanted defibrillator to prevent sudden cardiac death. Now, in a study published in the Oct. 4 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, cardiologists […]
Unusual repeated segment responsible for third of familial ALS
October 10, 2011
A team led by scientists from Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health has discovered a genetic mutation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and a related disease called frontotemporal dementia that appears to account for more than a third of all inherited cases of these diseases. In a new study published online Sept. 21 in Neuron, […]
Blood tests may hold clues to pace of Alzheimer’s disease progression
October 10, 2011
A team of scientists, led by Johns Hopkins researchers, says that it may have found a way to predict how quickly patients with Alzheimer’s disease will lose cognitive function by looking at ratios of two fatty compounds in their blood. The finding, the researchers say, could provide useful information to families and caregivers, and might also […]
New students at SoN participate in landmark simulation study
October 10, 2011
A person having a heart attack, another going into labor and a third with a skin rash are typical “patients” for students in the simulation lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Now students in the traditional 2013 class have the chance to care for such patients—including Harvey the cardiopulmonary simulator, Sim Man, Noelle […]
Efforts to defund, ban infant male circumcision unfounded
October 10, 2011
Johns Hopkins infectious disease experts say that the medical benefits of male circumcision are clear, and that efforts in an increasing number of states (currently 18) to not provide Medicaid insurance coverage for male circumcision—as well as an attempted ballot initiative in San Francisco to ban male circumcision in newborns and young boys—are unwarranted. Moreover, […]
Inaugural Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award winner announced
October 10, 2011
The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute has announced that Newborn Holistic Ministries is the winner of the inaugural Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award, which was created to recognize and support Baltimore community organizations that are collaborating with The Johns Hopkins University to improve the health and well-being of Baltimore City and its residents. The award was […]