Category: Divisions
Carey School’s Dean’s Lecture Series presents fall speaker
September 7, 2009
Carolyn Woo, dean of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, is the speaker for the fall 2009 installment of the Carey Business School’s Dean’s Lecture Series. Her talk, “Business Leadership for the Global Commons,” is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Homewood’s Mason Hall. Appointed dean in […]
EP develops three new online grad courses for BRAC workers
September 7, 2009
Three online courses in systems engineering, designed to prepare workers for jobs coming to Maryland through the federal Base Realignment and Closure process, are being launched by Engineering for Professionals, the part-time graduate program of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. The new master’s level courses, all developed by EP faculty, are Software Systems […]
SAIS to examine critical role of religion in international affairs
September 7, 2009
Each summer, a subject of special interest is selected at SAIS to serve as a substantive theme in the coming academic year. During 2009 – 2010, the school will examine the critical role of religion in international affairs. With events in Iran; the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; the search for lasting peace in […]
Deaths from unintentional injuries increase for many groups
September 7, 2009
Rate of poisoning mortality triples in white women between ages of 45 and 64 While the total mortality rate from unintentional injury increased in the United States by 11 percent between 1999 and 2005, far larger increases were seen in some subgroups analyzed by age, race, ethnicity and type of injury by researchers at the […]
Drug yields positive response in people with skin, brain cancer
September 7, 2009
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is involved in a preliminary study and case report describing positive responses to an experimental anticancer drug in a majority of people with advanced or metastatic basal cell skin cancers. One patient with the most common type of pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma, also showed tumor shrinkage. Initial results of the drug […]
Disclosing financial conflicts of interest may not be enough
September 7, 2009
Disclosure of financial conflicts of interest to potential participants in research is important but may have a limited role in managing these conflicts, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins, Duke and Wake Forest. The study’s recommendations provide a framework for establishing sound policy and practices for how best to disclose financial conflicts of […]
HIV subtype linked to increased likelihood for dementia
September 7, 2009
Patients infected with a particular subtype of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are more likely to develop dementia than patients with other subtypes, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers shows. The finding, reported in the September issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, is the first to demonstrate that the specific type of […]
Patient perception is vital when reporting medical errors
September 7, 2009
When reporting medical errors, patients’ perceptions of their physicians’ disclosure may be key to gaining their trust, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. However, a positive perception of the disclosure has little effect on the lawsuit risk a physician faces. Researchers examined volunteer responses to several videos depicting the […]
Surgical scrub solution: Good for critically ill patients, too
September 7, 2009
Chlorhexidine bathing is cheap, effective means of protection from superbugs Giving critically ill hospital patients a daily bath with a mild, soapy solution of the same antibacterial agent used by surgeons to “scrub in” before an operation can dramatically cut down, by as much as 73 percent, the number of patients who develop potentially deadly […]
International Reporting Project Fellows selected for 2009
September 7, 2009
Ten U.S. journalists have been awarded International Reporting Project Fellowships at Johns Hopkins SAIS for the 2009 program, including four journalists focusing on global environmental topics and three on stories dealing with loose nuclear materials. The nine-week fellowships, which provide mid-career U.S. journalists with opportunities to do in-depth overseas reporting projects, began in late August. […]