Issue: 2011 August 29
Gateway Sciences grant applications wanted
August 29, 2011
The Provost’s Office wants your ideas for how to improve the gateway science courses. The purpose of the RFP process is to garner bold, creative, culture-changing ideas for transforming these courses based on sound precedents and accompanied by rigorous assessment plans. Projects may focus on existing courses, develop new courses or programs, enhance or advance […]
Air cleaners ease asthma in kids living with smokers
August 29, 2011
A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study of Baltimore City children who have asthma and live with smokers shows that indoor air cleaners can greatly reduce household air pollution and lower the rates of daytime asthma symptoms to those achieved with certain anti-inflammatory asthma drugs. Although the air cleaners improved the overall air quality in homes, they […]
Coronary calcium better for predicting risk of heart attack, stroke
August 29, 2011
Results of a study published in the Aug. 19 issue of The Lancet have important implications for deciding whether cholesterol-lowering statin medication should be prescribed for people who have heart disease risk factors but normal levels of LDL, the so-called “bad” cholesterol. An estimated 6 million American adults fall into that gray-zone category. According to […]
JHU begins research to create blood platelets from stem cells
August 29, 2011
Johns Hopkins scientists have launched a pioneering research program to create, for the first time, human platelet cells from stem cells in order to study inherited blood-clotting abnormalities ranging from clots that cause heart attacks and stroke to bleeding disorders. The study is funded by a $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health […]
Policy change reduces racial disparity in kidney transplants
August 29, 2011
A national transplant policy change designed to give African-American patients greater access to donor kidneys has sliced in half the racial disparities that have long characterized the allocation of lifesaving organs, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Before 2003, the researchers note, an African-American patient who joined the kidney transplant list on the same day as a […]
Nag factor: How do kids convince parents to buy junk foods?
August 29, 2011
Sure they’re fun and kids love them, but could cartoon characters used in marketing contribute to the obesity epidemic as well as create nagging children? Today, some parents find themselves having a battle in the cereal aisle. Recognizable characters and logos prompt children to make repeated requests for a range of products, including low-nutrition foods […]
New composite material may restore damaged soft tissue
August 29, 2011
Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new liquid material that in early experiments in rats and humans shows promise in restoring damaged soft tissue relatively safely and durably. The material, a composite of biological and synthetic molecules, is injected under the skin, then “set” using light to form a more solid structure, like […]
Peabody season opens with music by Joe, Franz and Thad
August 29, 2011
Peabody’s 2011–2012 season will open on Tuesday, Sept. 20, with An Evening with Joe Burgstaller and Friends, the first of eight concerts in the Sylvia Adalman Chamber Series. Burgstaller, a former full-time member of the Canadian Brass who teaches trumpet at the Peabody Conservatory, will be joined by pianists Julian Lawrence Cargiulo and Hector Martignon, […]
School of Nursing announces two new ‘arrivals’
August 29, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is adding a couple of branches to its virtual family tree this fall as it welcomes SimNewB and Sim Man 3G to its simulation manikin family. “The use of simulation in nursing education is increasing, and Johns Hopkins is at the forefront of utilizing it,” said Joyce Vazzano, […]
JHU to review chronic wound treatment, identify best practices
August 29, 2011
An estimated $25 billion is spent annually on treating chronic wounds on patients in the United States. These chronic wounds deeply affect the quality of life of more than 6 million people who have them. The most common types of chronic skin wounds and skin ulcers are related to venous disease (conditions related to or […]