Category: School of Medicine
Low cholesterol may shrink risk for high-grade prostate cancer
November 9, 2009
Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.
How induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic ones
November 9, 2009
The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities.
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the health care debate
November 2, 2009
While concepts for health care reform volley back and forth in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, Johns Hopkins has quietly but meaningfully injected itself into the debate.
Seeing tumors in a new light
November 2, 2009
As a Johns Hopkins electrical engineer, Jin U. Kang has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber, studying what happens when light strikes matter. Now, he’s taking on a new challenge: brain surgery.
Lessons learned: Risk of serious flu-related sickness far outpaces risk of injectable vaccine in pregnant women
November 2, 2009
Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according to an extensive review of published research and data from previous flu season
Speeding discovery in neurological disease: The nose knows
November 2, 2009
Trying to understand neurological disease by studying cells in a dish is limited by the availability of the right cells. For years, researchers have relied on postmortem human brains as a source for schizophrenia-affected neurons. Now, Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a novel method via nasal biopsies of schizophrenia patients, establishing a faster way to make neurons in a dish for further study.
Unraveling the physics of cancer
October 26, 2009
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have been awarded a $14.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to launch a research center aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings that drive the growth and spread of cancer. The new Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center at INBT includes 11 Johns Hopkins faculty members affiliated with the INBT and four investigators from partner universities. The project’s participants say that they hope this new line of research will lead to never-before-considered approaches to cancer therapy and diagnostics.
Online medical informatics journal to launch in December
October 26, 2009
Two Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers have assembled a 25-member editorial board of international experts to launch a quarterly online medical journal devoted to original research and commentary on the use of computer automation in the day-to-day practice of medicine.
Physicians have less respect for obese patients, study suggests
October 26, 2009
Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about obesity could be affecting the long-term health of their heavier patients.
Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound
October 26, 2009
Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second set of cells also carries signals from the inner ear to the brain and has a real role in processing sound has been a matter of debate.