Category: Divisions
New from JHU Press
September 21, 2009
In Praise of Deadlock: How Partisan Struggle Makes Better Laws By W. Lee Rawls The acrimonious debate over health care reform has made some commentators long for more bipartisanship. W. Lee Rawls might disagree. As a practitioner who served for 14 years as chief of staff to two U.S. senators, Bill Frist and Pete Domenici, […]
Five Johns Hopkins graduate students named Siebel Scholars
September 21, 2009
The California-based Siebel Foundation has selected five Johns Hopkins students from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine as recipients of its annual Siebel Scholars awards, which provide $35,000 to each student to be used for the final year of graduate studies.
School of Public Health celebrates Edyth Schoenrich at 90
September 14, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, along with family and friends, celebrated the 90th birthday of longtime faculty member Edyth Schoenrich in a special tribute held Sept. 9 in Sommer Hall. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Schoenrich has been a major force in the advancement of professional involvement in preventive medicine and public health, both at the Bloomberg School and throughout the world.
Animal TB ‘tracker’ expected to speed drug, vaccine studies
September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs, noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The new monitoring system is expected to speed up what is currently a slow and cumbersome process to test the safety and efficacy of various TB drug regimens and vaccines in animals. Plans are already under way for developing a similar system to monitor TB disease in humans.
JHU researchers make stem cells from developing sperm
September 14, 2009
The promise of stem cell therapy may lie in uncovering how adult cells revert to a primordial, stem cell state, whose fate is yet to be determined. Now, cell scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have identified key molecular players responsible for this reversion in fruit fly sperm cells. Reporting online Aug. 6 in Cell Stem Cell, researchers show that two proteins are responsible for redirecting cells on the way to becoming sperm back to stem cells.
Former NATO Ambassador Volker joins SAIS Center on Transatlantic Relations
September 14, 2009
The SAIS Center on Transatlantic Relations has announced the appointment of Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, as managing director and senior fellow, effective Sept. 8.
Crunching the numbers on hormone-related disorders in U.S.
September 14, 2009
A dogged review of the medical literature has produced what is believed to be the nation’s first comprehensive estimate of the extent of dozens of endocrine disorders in the United States.
Finding: Hepatitis C treatment options equally effective
September 14, 2009
Study redefines treatment for the potentially deadly liver-damaging disease
Kidney stones can be prevented in seizure patients on high-fat diet
September 14, 2009
Children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can prevent the excruciatingly painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they start the diet, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
New tool may help docs predict COPD death risk
September 7, 2009
Researchers have developed an index scale to help physicians predict a patient’s risk of dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.