Category: Divisions
Diagnoses at your fingertips
July 23, 2012
Got symptoms? Two fourth-year Johns Hopkins School of Medicine students have invented a Web and mobile device application to take some guesswork out of what’s ailing you. And they recently won a significant cash prize to take their brainchild to the next level. Symcat—which stands for symptoms-based, computer-assisted triage—allows the user to enter symptoms (fever, […]
Students’ cellphone screening device for anemia wins $250,000 prize
July 23, 2012
Could a low-cost screening device connected to a cellphone save thousands of women and children from anemia-related deaths and disabilities? That’s the goal of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduates who say they’ve developed a noninvasive way to identify women with this dangerous blood disorder in developing nations. The device is designed to convert the […]
‘U.S. News & World Report’ releases new hospital rankings
July 23, 2012
In the annual rankings of U.S. hospitals released last week by U.S. News & World Report, The Johns Hopkins Hospital took the No. 1 spot in five national specialty rankings—ear, nose and throat; geriatrics; neurology and neurosurgery, psychiatry and rheumatology—and 11 other specialties were ranked nationally. The hospital, which had been consecutively ranked No. 1 […]
Berman Bioethics Institute to study informed consent options
July 23, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is a recipient of one of 50 pilot projects to be funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study stakeholder views of streamlined informed consent options for comparative effectiveness research studies. “We are so pleased that questions of informed consent will be included in these pilot projects,” […]
Role-Playing
July 23, 2012
Parts of the Peabody Institute were transformed into the Hotel Cotesworth, a historic (if fictional) Georgetown hotel, for last week’s filming of scenes in an episode of ‘House of Cards.’ The new Netflix series, set in Washington, D.C., though largely filmed in Baltimore, stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
Bloomberg School to offer MPH degree program in India
July 9, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Health Management Research, will offer a master of public health degree program in Jaipur, India, beginning this fall. The program is specifically intended for citizens and residents of India and low- and middle-income countries in the region and will focus […]
Former national security official Hans Binnendijk joins SAIS
July 9, 2012
Hans Binnendijk, a former high-ranking national security official who most recently served as vice president for research and applied learning at the National Defense University, has joined SAIS as a senior fellow. Based at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, Binnendijk, who also held the Theodore Roosevelt Chair in National Security Policy at NDU, will […]
They were what they ate: Pre-humans ate only forest foods
July 9, 2012
You are what you eat, as the saying goes, and that seems to have been as true 2 million years ago, when pre-human relatives were swinging through the trees and racing across the savannas of South Africa, as it is today. A study published June 27 in the journal Nature reveals that Australopithecus sediba, an […]
Hopkins-Nanjing Center celebrates 25 years
July 9, 2012
President Ronald J. Daniels and incoming SAIS Dean Vali R. Nasr led the university’s delegation to celebrate in China the 25th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. The festivities kicked off on June 15 with the center’s annual commencement ceremony, where Daniels had the opportunity to address the […]
Researchers recommend steps to improve global road safety
July 9, 2012
Road traffic crashes kill more than 1.2 million people each year, with 90 percent of those fatalities occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Yet despite a growing body of data to support effective and proven interventions, proportional funding for implementation in developing countries has not been forthcoming, leaving a gap between evidence and action. A […]