Day: January 25, 2010
Who gets expensive cancer drugs? A tale of two nations
January 25, 2010
The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom’s nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments needs rethinking, a team of bioethicists and health policy experts says in a report out Dec. 14. Delving into the question of […]
Social service activities can improve brain for older adults
January 25, 2010
Volunteer service such as tutoring children can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that seniors participating in a youth mentoring program made gains in key brain regions that […]
Dynamic chamber puts chemical weapons sensors to the test
January 25, 2010
Applied Physics Laboratory engineers have constructed a first-of-its-kind chamber to test the viability of sensors designed to detect chemical warfare agents under realistic battlefield conditions. While the use of chemical weapons was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, terrorists have increasingly deployed chemical armaments against civilian and military populations over the past decade. […]
Illegal ‘club drug’ may lead to sleep apnea, scientists find
January 25, 2010
Repeated use of the drug popularly known as “ecstasy” significantly raises the risk of developing sleep apnea in otherwise healthy young adults with no other known risk factors for the sleep disturbance, a new study by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests. The finding is the latest highlighting the potential dangers of the amphetamine-style chemical, currently used […]
Hopkins scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry
January 25, 2010
By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal’s brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular cues to control the complex design of its circuits. Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24 in Nature, […]
U.S. doctors prescribing more psychiatric medications
January 25, 2010
Psychiatrists in the United States prescribed more psychotropic drugs to their patients in 2006 than they did a decade ago, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Columbia University. The researchers also found that individual patients were prescribed medications in greater combination to treat their mental […]
Got wheels?
January 25, 2010
When Johns Hopkins announced in 2007 that it was bringing a car-sharing program to Baltimore, Brenda Armour was ready. “I think I was the third or fourth to sign up,” says Armour, who lives in Charles Village and is assistant to the dean of student life on the Homewood campus. A former resident of New […]
Notices — Jan. 25, 2010
January 25, 2010
‘Crabbing for Cash’ Fund Raiser — Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is back with its second annual Crabbing for Cash online fund-raising campaign. Cash Crab volunteers are needed to support both Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the annual Mix 106.5 Radiothon, scheduled for Feb. 25–28. For details or to register, go to www .hopkinschildrens.org/crabbing-for-cash .aspx. […]
Calendar — Jan. 25, 2010
January 25, 2010
COLLOQUIA Thurs., Jan. 28, 3 p.m. “Spaceship Earth: A History of Ecological Designs,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Peder Anker, New York University. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW Fri., Jan. 29, 2 p.m. “U.S. Navy Task Force on Climate Change and Arctic Impact,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Rear […]