Year: 2010
Men’s lacrosse tix for faculty and staff available on Feb. 1
January 25, 2010
Tickets for the Blue Jays 2010 men’s lacrosse season will be available beginning next Monday, Feb. 1. To receive two complimentary season passes, faculty and staff members should bring a valid university ID to the main office in Homewood’s Athletic Center between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. (To accommodate faculty and staff, […]
Film, workshops to address racism in health care
January 25, 2010
Producer/director Crystal Emery’s film The Deadliest Disease in America will be screened at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 27, in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus. The 55-minute film will be followed by four workshops: “What Racism Looks Like in Health Care Delivery and Why You Should Report It,” “Doctor/Patient Communication,” “Empowering Community Organizations […]
‘On the Road’ takes a look at early Maryland transportation
January 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Museum will open its fourth annual student-curated focus show, On the Road: Travel and Transportation in Early Maryland, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28 (snow date: Feb. 4). On view through Wednesday, March 31, the exhibition explores how Marylanders traveled from 1775 through to the laying […]
Goal: Improve cardio health in Baltimore substance abusers
January 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing researcher Benita Walton-Moss is partnering with Baltimore’s community leaders in reaching out to substance abusers with hypertension, with the goal of improving cardiovascular health. The associate professor is launching a two-and-a-half-year study in a Baltimore neighborhood with the aim of decreasing the high rate of hypertension among African-Americans, particularly those […]
Combat injury not leading cause of medical evac from war zones
January 25, 2010
Musculoskeletal problems take more out of action; psychiatric illness on rise
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, […]