Year: 2010
Myths about teens busted in new guide for parents, others
April 12, 2010
The Teen Years Explained: A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development was written by Clea McNeely and Jayne Blanchard of the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to dispel many common myths about adolescence with the latest scientific findings on the physical, emotional, cognitive, sexual and spiritual development of […]
Fatal injuries are increasing in older Americans, study finds
April 12, 2010
The risk of dying from injuries is increasing for Americans ages 65 and older, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The report found significant increases in death rates from falls (up 42 percent), machinery (up 46 percent), motorcycle crashes (up 145 […]
Spoiler alert: TV doc dramas ‘rife’ with breaches of conduct
April 12, 2010
A medical student and faculty directors from The Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics analyzed depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism over a full season of two popular medical dramas, Grey’s Anatomy and House, M.D., and found that the shows were “rife” with ethical dilemmas and actions that often ran afoul of professional codes of […]
Donor kidneys from hepatitis C patients needlessly denied
April 12, 2010
More than half of donor kidneys in the United States infected with hepatitis C are thrown away despite the need among hepatitis C patients who may die waiting for an infection-free organ, Johns Hopkins research suggests. In a study of national data published online in the American Journal of Transplantation, the researchers say that while […]
Eggs can ease egg allergies, oral immunotherapy study shows
April 12, 2010
Children with egg allergies who consume increasingly higher doses of egg protein—the very nutrient they react to—appear to gradually overcome their allergies, tolerating eggs better over time and with milder symptoms, according to research conducted at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere. The findings from a multicenter trial were presented at the annual meeting […]
Classifieds — April 12, 2010
April 12, 2010
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Calendar — April 12, 2010
April 12, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., April 13, 4 p.m. “Something Other Than Its Own Mass: Corporeality, Animality, Materiality,” an Anthropology colloquium with Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues., April 13, 4:15 p.m. “Redox-Active Ligand-Mediated Organometallic Catalysis at Manganese and Cobalt: New Routes to sp3-Hybridized C-C Bonds,” a Chemistry colloquium with Jake Soper, Georgia […]
Hopkins buys former Zurich property
April 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins on March 30 completed the acquisition of the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore, which it will use primarily to consolidate financial operations and information technology currently located at a number of locations. The Zurich property, which will undergo renovations before it is occupied later this year, contains approximately 415,000 square […]
Spreading our academic wealth
April 5, 2010
Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider will give the inaugural talk in the Provost’s Lecture Series, which is intended to spread the wealth of academic excellence at Johns Hopkins among its campuses. Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences in East Baltimore, […]
Civil engineer assesses damage to Chile’s hospitals
April 5, 2010
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, an assistant research professor of civil engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, recently spent a week in Chile looking at how well buildings and infrastructure had withstood the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the nation on Feb. 27. Mitrani-Reiser studies safety and economic issues associated with structures, how structural risks can […]