Issue: 2011 September 12
Classifieds — September 12, 2011
September 12, 2011
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Calendar — September 12, 2011
September 12, 2011
BLOOD DRIVES Wed., Sept. 14, and Thurs., Sept. 15, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. JHU/American Red Cross Blood Drive. For more information, email johnshopkinsblooddrive@jhmi .edu or call 410-614-0913. Turner Concourse. EB COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 13, 4 p.m. “Well-Being in a World of Want: Some Reflections on Recent Fieldwork in Sierra Leone,” an Anthropology colloquium with […]
Individual health insurance mandate important for patients, doctors
September 12, 2011
Editor’s note: Due to a technical error, an unrelated story ran with the above headline in the Sept. 6 issue of The Gazette. The correct story appears below. We regret the error. While the battle over the legality of the Affordable Care Act’s mandate requiring most individuals to purchase health insurance continues to be fought, […]
Looking for the roots of racial bias in delivery of health care
September 12, 2011
New Johns Hopkins research shows that medical students—just like the general American population—may have unconscious if not overt preferences for white people, but this innate bias does not appear to translate into different or lesser health care of other races. The research findings, published in the Sept. 7 issue of the Journal of the American […]
Study: Advanced practice nurse care comparable to physician care
September 12, 2011
Today’s primary care physicians in the U.S. are too few in number to meet the health care needs of a burgeoning population, and health care reform will only amplify the problem. That’s where nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and other advanced practice nurses enter the picture. Do these master’s-trained, board-certified nurses have the skills needed for […]
Antidepressant RXs on rise in those with no psychiatric diagnosis
September 12, 2011
Americans are no strangers to antidepressants. During the last 20 years the use of antidepressants has grown significantly, making them one of the most costly, and the third most commonly prescribed class of, medications in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2005 to 2008 nearly 8.9 percent of […]
Exhibition explores scientific, artistic aspects of illustrator’s illness
September 12, 2011
Lonni Sue Johnson’s quirky, clever, colorful illustrations appeared in such prominent publications as The New Yorker and The New York Times before an attack of viral encephalitis in 2007 that left the artist (who also was a pilot and an organic dairy farmer) with severe memory-impairing brain damage. The virus attacked both sides of Johnson’s […]
Vaccinations in 72 poorest countries could avert 6.4 million deaths
September 12, 2011
By scaling up childhood vaccinations in 72 of the world’s poorest countries, an estimated 6.4 million deaths could be averted between 2011 and 2020, with a corresponding economic value of between $151 billion and $231 billion, according to two new studies by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health investigators published in the June issue […]
Legal scholar to discuss debate over health care reform law
September 12, 2011
Georgetown University Law Center Professor Randy E. Barnett will discuss the Affordable Care Act at The Johns Hopkins University’s 2011 Constitutional Forum, which is held in conjunction with the annual observance of Constitution Day and focuses on important legal issues. During his talk, “Commandeering the People: Why ObamaCare is Unconstitutional,” Barnett will discuss the debate […]
President Daniels to kick off this year’s Leaders + Legends series
September 12, 2011
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels will be the inaugural speaker for the fourth year of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series, which begins at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. In his remarks, titled “Enduring Institutions, Evolving Cities: Johns Hopkins and […]