Issue: 2011 August 1
Low-carb, high-fat diets add no arterial health risks to obese
August 1, 2011
Overweight and obese people looking to drop some pounds and considering one of the popular low-carbohydrate diets, along with moderate exercise, need not worry that the higher proportion of fat in such a program compared to a low-fat, high-carb diet may harm their arteries, suggests a pair of new studies by heart and vascular researchers […]
SAIS Dean Jessica Einhorn to retire in June 2012
August 1, 2011
Jessica P. Einhorn, dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, will retire at the end of the coming academic year, she announced today. Einhorn, the first SAIS graduate to serve as its dean, will step down on June 30, 2012, after a decade as leader of one of […]
Sheridan Libraries receive $1.054 mill Mellon grant for conservation
August 1, 2011
The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins have been awarded a $1.054 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to renew the Heritage Science for Conservation Project. The HSC Project, which serves as a bridge between the art and science of conservation, is based in the libraries’ Department of Conservation and Preservation and is run […]
Medical educators miss teachable moments with young docs
August 1, 2011
A frail but perfectly coherent patient refuses medical attention for problems with mobility. With slight hesitation, a doctor in training performs a biopsy, noticing excessive bleeding afterward. Another resident elects not to order expensive treatment for a seriously ill patient because it will leave him in deep debt. Physicians in training face ethically fraught scenarios like […]
Focusing on women in medicine
August 1, 2011
On July 1, not much changed in the daily routine of Barbara Fivush. The professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine still had the same office in the David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building, and held the same role as division chief of Pediatric Nephrology. She spent her early morning as always, poring over […]
Retinal cells thought to be the same are not, biologist says
August 1, 2011
The old adage “looks can be deceiving” certainly rings true when it comes to people. And it is also accurate when describing special light-sensing cells in the eye, according to a Johns Hopkins University biologist. In a study recently published in Nature, a team led by Samer Hattar of the Krieger School of Arts and […]
Discovery: How some breast cancers alter their sensitivity to estrogen
August 1, 2011
Using human breast cancer cells and the protein that causes fireflies to glow, a Johns Hopkins team has shed light on why some breast cancer cells become resistant to the anticancer effects of the drug tamoxifen. The key is a discovery of two genetic “dimmer switches” that apparently control how a breast cancer gene responds […]
Dea Anderson Kline, 89, university’s first director of community affairs
August 1, 2011
Dea Anderson Kline, the university’s first director of community affairs, an influential community organizer and a founder of Greater Homewood Community Corp., has died at 89. Kline, who retired in 1991, died July 24 at a nursing home in Tennessee. Kline joined Johns Hopkins in 1967 as director of the Homewood Community Project, funded by […]
Martha Roseman, 90, former associate dean of academic advising
August 1, 2011
Martha O. Roseman, former associate dean of academic advising at The Johns Hopkins University, died on July 22, just three weeks after the death of her husband, Saul Roseman, an emeritus professor in the Department of Biology. She was 90. Martha Roseman was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and with her husband raised their family […]
Classifieds — August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
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