Category: School of Medicine
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, […]
Workers’ comp research gives insight into curbing health costs
January 19, 2010
Analyzing physicians’ practice patterns may hold valuable clues about how to curb the nation’s rising health care costs, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
A step closer to treating memory loss in age-related diseases
January 19, 2010
Michela Gallagher has spent more than two decades trying to solve the mysteries of the aging brain. What happens to our gray matter as we get older? How—and why—do those changes occur? And, perhaps most importantly, what strategies and approaches might help treat—or, eventually, even prevent—memory loss in age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and other dementias?
Spine immobilization may do harm to both gunshot, stabbing victims
January 19, 2010
Patients are twice as likely to die if not taken to the hospital immediately
Celebrating Carol Greider
January 11, 2010
Nearly 800 faculty, students and staff poured into Turner Concourse on Jan. 6 for a reception to honor Carol Greider, who recently returned from Stockholm, where she accepted the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Smoking cessation may increase diabetes risk
January 11, 2010
Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but new research from Johns Hopkins suggests that quitting the habit may actually raise diabetes risk in the short term.
Vaccine appears to ‘mop up’ leukemia cells drug leaves behind
January 11, 2010
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers say preliminary studies show that a vaccine made with leukemia cells may be able to reduce or eliminate the last remaining cancer cells in some chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML, patients taking the drug Imatinib mesylate (Gleevec).
Unlocking the key to premature aging in children
January 4, 2010
Susan Michaelis conducts her research in a traditional laboratory, with beakers and flasks and microscopes strong enough to allow her to view and manipulate the infinitesimally small nuclei of cells.
1,000-plus admitted in U.S. annually for aviation-related injuries
January 4, 2010
The first-ever published study of aviation-related injuries and deaths in the United States finds that an average of 1,013 patients are admitted to U.S. hospitals with aviation-related injuries annually, and that an average of 753 aviation deaths occur each year.
‘Mini’-transplant may reverse severe sickle cell
December 14, 2009
Results of a preliminary study by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins show that “mini” stem cell transplantation may safely reverse severe sickle cell disease in adults.