Category: Bloomberg School of Public Health
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 […]
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 […]
Guided care reduces cost for elders with chronic conditions
August 17, 2009
The nation’s sickest and most expensive patients need fewer health care resources and cost insurers less when they are closely supported by a nurse-physician primary care team that tracks their health and offers regular support, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The research, published this month in the American Journal of Managed Care, found that in the first eight months of a randomized controlled trial, patients in a primary care enhancement program called Guided Care spent less time in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities and had fewer emergency room visits and home health episodes.
New sanitizer reduces infections, cuts back on costly disposables
August 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower cubicle–shaped device that automatically sanitizes in 30 minutes all sorts of hard-to-clean equipment in a highly trafficked hospital Emergency Department. The novel device can sanitize and disinfect equipment of all shapes and sizes, […]
Vaccine blocks transmission of malaria in lab experiments
August 3, 2009
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have for the first time produced a malarial protein in the proper conformation and quantity to generate a significant immune response in mice and nonhuman primates for use in a potential transmission-blocking vaccine. Antibodies induced by Pfs48/45 protein vaccine effectively blocked the sexual development of the malaria-causing […]
1 in 6 public health workers unlikely to respond in pandemic
August 3, 2009
Approximately one in six public health workers said they would not report to work during a pandemic flu emergency regardless of its severity, according to a survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings are a significant improvement over a 2005 study, conducted by the same research team, […]
Gun sales: Regulation, oversight cut trafficking to criminals
August 3, 2009
Comprehensive regulation of gun sellers appears to reduce the trafficking of guns to criminals, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Preventing the diversion of guns to criminals is important because 85 percent of guns recovered by police were recovered from criminal suspects who were not […]
Bloomberg School hosts Pacific Rim public health leaders
July 20, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently hosted the third annual Public Health Workshop for the Association of the Pacific Rim Universities World Institute, or AWI.
Center for Injury Research receives renewal from CDC
July 20, 2009
The Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of four injury control research centers nationwide selected for funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control