Year: 2010
‘Magnetricity’ discoverer to give lecture at Homewood
August 2, 2010
Steven Bramwell, the University College London physicist who discovered the concept of “magnetricity,” will give a lecture on Thursday, Aug. 5, on the Homewood campus. It will take place at 5 p.m. in Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. The lecture is part of an international conference, Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2010, […]
SoN-trained ‘youth mentors’ provide support for new moms
August 2, 2010
New and expecting mothers in Baltimore City have a new resource to help them make the transition to motherhood. On June 28, 13 “youth mentors” were trained in the Text4Baby program by Elizabeth “Betty” Jordan and Ellen Ray of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing as part of the B’more for Healthy Babies initiative. […]
CPR without mouth-to-mouth may be better for cardiac victims
August 2, 2010
A leading expert in cardiopulmonary resuscitation says that two new studies from U.S. and European researchers support the case for dropping mouth-to-mouth, or rescue, breathing by bystanders and using “hands-only” chest compressions during the life-saving practice better known as CPR. The findings, the expert says, concur with the latest science advisory statement from the American Heart […]
HIV treatment observed by patient’s supporter improves survival
August 2, 2010
When applied to HIV care, the community-based model of directly observed therapy, or DOT, has no effect on virologic outcomes but significantly improves patient survival. This is according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with colleagues at University of Cape Town, South Africa, who conducted the first randomized […]
Delay unlikely to worsen tumors for low-risk prostate cancer
August 2, 2010
Johns Hopkins experts have found that men enrolled in an active surveillance program for prostate cancer who eventually needed surgery to remove their prostates fared just as well as men who opted to remove the gland immediately, except if a follow-up biopsy during surveillance showed high-grade cancer. The findings were presented at the American Society […]
Novel radiotracer shines light on brains of Alzheimer’s patients
August 2, 2010
A trial of a novel radioactive compound readily and safely distinguished the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients from those of healthy volunteers on brain scans and opens the doors to making such imaging available beyond facilities that can manufacture their own radioactive compounds. The results, reported by a Johns Hopkins team in the June Journal of […]
Bioethicists urge docs to build trust with sickle-cell patients
August 2, 2010
Faculty at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics have published a study showing that among adults with sickle cell disease, unsatisfactory interactions with health care providers in the past affect their trust in the medical profession more broadly. “Our research serves as a reminder to clinicians caring for sickle cell patients that simple […]
Students design early-labor detector to prevent premature births
August 2, 2010
The birth of a baby is usually a joyous event, but when a child is born too early, worrisome complications can occur, including serious health problems for the baby and steep medical bills for the family. To address this, Johns Hopkins graduate students and their faculty adviser have invented a system to pick up very […]
Notices — August 2, 2010
August 2, 2010
Funding for BPH/LUTS Research — Funding is available to support pilot and feasibility projects focused on the common male diseases of benign prostatic hyperplasia/lower urinary tract symptoms. Awards of up to $50,000 for up to two years are available to fund the projects, which are part of a new NIDDK-supported George M. O’Brien Urology Research […]
Classifieds — August 2, 2010
August 2, 2010
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