Category: Divisions
‘Sesame Street’ improves development for Indonesian children
February 7, 2011
Children exposed to Jalan Sesama, an Indonesian version of the American children’s television show Sesame Street, had improved educational skills and healthy development, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Over a 14-week period, the children who had the greatest exposure to Jalan Sesama improved significantly in […]
Leon Botstein launches spring Musicology Colloquium
January 31, 2011
Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and editor of Musical Quarterly, will give the first spring talk of the Peabody Conservatory’s 2010–2011 Doctor of Musical Arts Musicology Colloquium from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2. His topic is “Rethinking the Repertoire: Rescuing History, Criticism and Performance […]
Breast cancer patients with diabetes more likely to die, study finds
January 31, 2011
Breast cancer patients are nearly 50 percent more likely to die of any cause if they also have diabetes, according to a comprehensive review of research conducted by Johns Hopkins physicians. The findings, published in the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggest that future research could focus on whether high levels of […]
Statin use linked to rare autoimmune disease
January 31, 2011
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered how statins, the most commonly prescribed class of medication in the United States, appear to trigger a rare but serious autoimmune muscle disease in a small portion of the 30 million Americans who take the cholesterol-lowering drugs. Taking statins, they found, can sometimes cause the body to produce antibodies against […]
Race plays role in weight-related counseling among obese patients
January 31, 2011
When it comes to advising obese patients, blacks receive less weight reduction and exercise counseling from physicians than their white counterparts. This is according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who examined the impact of patient and doctor race concordance on weight-related counseling. The results […]
Applied Physics Lab tapped to provide solar probe instrument
January 31, 2011
Already on board to design and build NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, APL has been tapped to provide an instrument for the sun-swooping probe that will measure key properties of the energetic particles blasted off the sun. Set to launch by 2018, Solar Probe Plus will venture into the sun’s outer atmosphere—called the corona—and gather […]
Gene protects African-Americans from coronary artery disease
January 31, 2011
A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death in Americans of all races. Researchers found that a single DNA variation—having at least one so-called guanine nucleotide in […]
Fewer pediatricians, higher risk for kids’ appendix ruptures
January 31, 2011
Children who live in areas with fewer pediatricians are more likely to suffer life-threatening ruptures of the appendix than those in areas with more pediatricians, even when accounting for other factors such as the number of hospitals, imaging technology, insurance coverage and the number of surgeons in an area, according to a study from the […]
Scholarships support online Guided Care Nursing course
January 31, 2011
Funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation has allowed the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing to offer 270 scholarships for nurses to complete the online Guided Care Nursing course in 2011 and 2012. Registered nurses are eligible to apply if they are working for an organization in the United States that plans to use the […]
Johns Hopkins Nursing welcomes first cohort of BS to MSN students
January 31, 2011
Seven students are marking a new chapter in Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing academic program history this month. The seven comprise the first cohort of the Accelerated BS to MSN with Paid Clinical Residency program. “This unique and rewarding opportunity allows students to not only earn their baccalaureate degree but also gain the valuable […]