Category: Divisions
Famed neurosurgeon Cushing’s century-old notes reveal modern-style admission of medical error
February 28, 2011
The current focus on medical errors isn’t quite as new as it seems. A Johns Hopkins review of trailblazing neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing’s notes, made at the turn of the 20th century, has turned up copious documentation of his own surgical mishaps as well as his suggestions for preventing those mistakes in the future. Authors of […]
Astrophysicist Riess wins the 2011 Einstein Medal
February 21, 2011
Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, on Friday was awarded the Einstein Medal 2011 by the Albert Einstein Society of Bern, Switzerland. The society’s board of trustees recognized Riess for leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe […]
Qualcomm’s Irwin Jacobs to give WSE’s Blumenthal Lecture
February 21, 2011
Irwin M. Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm, will be the honored guest and speaker on Tuesday, March 1, at a technology management lecture and award program established by a Johns Hopkins graduate and his wife. This year’s Sydney and Mitzi Blumenthal Lecture and Award for Contributions to Management in Technology program will be held at 4:30 […]
Seniors with hearing loss more likely to develop dementia
February 21, 2011
Seniors with hearing loss are significantly more likely to develop dementia over time than those who retain their hearing, a study by Johns Hopkins and National Institute on Aging researchers suggests. The findings, the researchers say, could lead to new ways to combat dementia, a condition that affects millions of people worldwide and carries heavy […]
E2SHI: New acronym, big ambitions
February 14, 2011
Drawing on faculty expertise in environmental science and engineering, public health and other areas, The Johns Hopkins University has launched its Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute to promote research and education in topics ranging from green energy practices to climate change and related health issues. “This kind of research right now is distributed all […]
Safety checklist use yields 10 percent drop in hospital deaths
February 14, 2011
A Johns Hopkins–led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study suggests. Although prior research showed a major reduction in central line–related bloodstream infections at hospitals using the checklist, the new study is the first to show […]
‘.jpg’ for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information
February 14, 2011
Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions such as “.jpg” or “.png” signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more-efficient format, reducing file size by a factor of 10 or more with little or no apparent change in image quality. The full set […]
Peabody Chamber Opera remembers the ’50s at Theatre Project
February 14, 2011
Peabody Chamber Opera will present Remember the Fifties—a double bill of one-act operas about the decade of Eisenhower, Burma Shave and I Love Lucy—at Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St., from Feb. 24 to 27. The two works are Lee Hoiby’s This Is the Rill Speaking of 1991 and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti of […]
Internal med residents graduate unprepared for primary care
February 14, 2011
Doctors who have completed training in internal medicine are in general poorly prepared for jobs as primary care physicians, most notably lacking the knowledge to best care for patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, a new Johns Hopkins study suggests. The researchers also found, however, that physicians who completed internal […]
JHM appoints VP for health care transformation, strategic planning
February 7, 2011
John Michael Colmers, former secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has been named Johns Hopkins Medicine vice president for health care transformation and strategic planning. In this role, Colmers will support the executive leadership of Johns Hopkins Medicine in strategically positioning the expanding Johns Hopkins system to respond to health care […]