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Secondhand smoke levels higher in cars than in bars or restaurants
September 7, 2009
The concentrations of secondhand smoke are significantly higher in cars than concentrations generally measured in bars, restaurants and other public places that allow smoking, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is among the first to measure smoking in cars under real-world driving conditions and […]
School of Public Health testing H1N1 flu vaccine
August 31, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been selected by CSL Biotherapies of Australia as the lead site to conduct tests for a vaccine against the new H1N1 influenza. The trial will vaccinate 1,300 adults from sites across the United States and is one of the largest H1N1 vaccine trials currently under way. […]
Computational process zeroes in on top genetic cancer suspects
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the DNA changes that are most likely to promote cancer. The goal is to provide critical help to researchers who are poring over numerous newly discovered gene mutations, many of which are harmless or have no connection […]
Common sleeping disorder ups chances of dying for snorers
August 31, 2009
Nightly bouts of interrupted, oxygen-deprived sleep from a collapsed airway in the upper neck raise the chances of dying in middle-aged to elderly people by as much as 46 percent in the most severe cases, according to a landmark study on sleep apnea by lung experts at Johns Hopkins and six other U.S. medical centers […]
LEGOs show researchers what happens inside lab-on-a-chip
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children’s toy to help them visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more […]
European REACH legislation may require more animals, funds
August 31, 2009
The European Union’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of CHemical substances) legislation is intended as a comprehensive safety evaluation for commercial chemicals used in consumer products that are traded in Europe at amounts more than one ton per year. However, implementation of the regulation may require 54 million research animals and 9.5 billion euros […]
Milk safe, even encouraged for some kids after allergy treatment
August 31, 2009
Some children with a history of severe milk allergy can safely drink milk and consume other dairy products every day, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and published in the Aug. 10 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Investigators followed up with a subset of children who […]
Is there long-term brain damage after heart bypass surgery?
August 31, 2009
Brain scientists and cardiac surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence from 227 heart bypass surgery patients that the long-term memory losses and cognitive problems they experience are due to the underlying coronary artery disease itself and not to ill aftereffects from having used a heart-lung machine. Researchers say that their latest findings explain study results […]
Hepatitis E more widespread in U.S. than previously suspected
August 31, 2009
Exposure to hepatitis E virus appears to be common in the United States, although disease following exposure is rarely reported, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study found antibodies indicating exposure to HEV in 21 percent of the U.S. population between 1988 and 1994. […]
Institute for Global Tobacco Control graduates first class
August 31, 2009
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control has graduated its first class of 11 international students in its Global Tobacco Control Certificate Program, one of the first academic training programs of its kind worldwide. The IGTC, located at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, launched the program in 2008 to provide international professionals and […]