Year: 2010
JH-U-Turn ‘yard’ sale raises more than $5,800 for Neighborhood Fund
June 21, 2010
By 8:45 a.m. on Saturday, June 12, the checkout line at the first JH-U-Turn sale measured the length of two basketball courts. Quickly, volunteer sales clerks began taking best-offer prices to keep the line moving, while hundreds of bargain-hunter shoppers scanned for finds among aisles of gently used electronics, books, furniture and clothing at Homewood’s […]
Race matching of heart donors, recipients doesn’t affect survival
June 21, 2010
Transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins who have reviewed the medical records of more than 20,000 heart transplant patients say that it is not simply racial differences but rather flaws in the health care system, along with type of insurance and education levels, in addition to biological factors, that are likely the causes of disproportionately worse […]
Brain surgeons take shortcut through eyelid to reach skull
June 21, 2010
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins have safely and effectively operated inside the brains of a dozen patients by making a small entry incision through the natural creases of an eyelid to reach the skull and deep brain. They say that access to the skull and brain through either lid, formally known as a transpalpebral orbitofrontal craniotomy, […]
Some like it hot: Site of human evolution was scorching
June 21, 2010
If you think summer in your hometown is hot, consider it fortunate that you don’t live in the Turkana Basin of Kenya, where the average daily temperature has reached the mid-90s or higher, year-round, for the past 4 million years. The need to stay cool in that cradle of human evolution may relate, at least […]
Study: Crocodile, hippo served as ‘brain food’ for early humans
June 21, 2010
Your mother was right: Fish really is “brain food.” And it seems that even pre-humans living as far back as 2 million years ago somehow knew it. A team of researchers that included Johns Hopkins University geologist Naomi Levin has found that early hominids living in what is now northern Kenya ate a wider variety […]
Brain-cooling device wins first-place prize for JHU undergrads
June 21, 2010
A brain-cooling invention that could improve the survival prospects for cardiac arrest patients has won a $10,000 first-place prize for a Johns Hopkins undergraduate team in a national biomedical engineering competition for college students. The honor was announced June 9 at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance’s annual BMEidea Awards, as part of the […]
Studying cells in 3-D could reveal new cancer targets
June 21, 2010
Showing movies in 3-D has produced a box-office bonanza in recent months. Could viewing cell behavior in three dimensions lead to important advances in cancer research? A new study led by Johns Hopkins University engineers indicates it may happen. Looking at cells in 3-D, the team members concluded, yields more accurate information that could help […]
A season of staff celebration
June 21, 2010
Homewood Photos by Will Kirk/Homewoodphoto.jhu.edu Staff from a wide range of Johns Hopkins schools and divisions were recognized for five, 10 and 15 years of service at the Luau-themed afternoon reception held June 16 in the Glass Pavilion on the Homewood campus. Among the honorees were staff from Academic and Cultural Centers, Carey Business School, […]
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June 21, 2010
Infectious diseases cause nearly two-thirds of child deaths June 21, 2010 Preventable infectious diseases cause two-thirds of child deaths, according to a new study published May 12 by The Lancet. Experts from the World Health Organization and UNICEF’s Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group assessed data from 193 countries to produce estimates by country, region and […]
Cheers — June 21, 2010
June 21, 2010
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY Dave Van Wie of the Global Engagement Department has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the world’s largest professional technical aerospace society. Van Wie, the chief technologist of the Precision Engagement Business Area and a renowned expert in high-speed, high-temperature fluid dynamics and air-breathing propulsion systems, […]