Category: Divisions
JH researchers awarded $8 mill to develop method to rid body of HIV
January 25, 2010
A multidisciplinary research team at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has been awarded $8 million in funding by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop methods to rid the body of HIV.
Obama taps libraries dean Winston Tabb for national board
January 25, 2010
Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the National Museum and Library Services Board. The nomination, announced last week by the White House, requires confirmation by the Senate.
Peabody Spotlight concerts announced for E. Baltimore
January 25, 2010
The JHMI Office of Cultural Affairs last week launched Peabody Spotlight, a series of noontime concerts to be performed on eight Wednesdays in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus and also broadcast within the hospital on channel 54.
‘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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
U.S. doctors prescribing more psychiatric medications
January 25, 2010
Psychiatrists in the United States prescribed more psychotropic drugs to their patients in 2006 than they did a decade ago, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Columbia University. The researchers also found that individual patients were prescribed medications in greater combination to treat their mental […]