Issue: 2012 February 27
Study: Acid reflux drug does not improve asthma in children
February 27, 2012
Asthma and gastroesophageal reflux, or GER, are both common illnesses in children. GER in children often occurs without the typical symptoms of heartburn, and physicians frequently prescribe the acid reflux drug lansoprazole to supplement the standard inhaled steroid treatment for children with uncontrolled asthma regardless of GER symptoms. However, a randomized clinical trial conducted by […]
Simple ‘frailty’ test predicts kidney transplant outcomes
February 27, 2012
A simple 10-minute bedside assessment conducted prior to surgery appears to be the best method yet for predicting which kidney transplant patients will do well with their new organs, just-published Johns Hopkins research suggests. A report on the research, which appears in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery, suggests that a recently developed […]
Pasta power
February 27, 2012
JHU’s professional engineering fraternity, Theta Tau, kicked off National Engineers Week with its annual Tower of Power competition. Nineteen teams of students and alumni competed. The mission: to build with a box of uncooked linguini and bag of marshmallows the tallest tower in 20 minutes. This year’s winners were four PhD students from Mechanical Engineering: […]
Jhpiego receives grant to support Rwandan HIV/AIDS efforts
February 27, 2012
Jhpiego has been awarded $8,430,511 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the first year of a five-year project that will directly support the Rwandan Minister of Health’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with two main goals: public health program capacity building and grants management capacity building. Program capacity building components include strengthening […]
Family of Nathan Krasnopoler holds candlelight memorial
February 27, 2012
On the anniversary of the day when sophomore bicyclist Nathan Krasnopoler collided with a turning vehicle in an accident that eventually led to his death, his family and friends held a vigil to honor his memory. The Feb. 26 event began with a bike ride that finished at the accident site on University Parkway, alongside […]
JHH recertified as top-level perinatal referral center
February 27, 2012
The Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, an independent state agency responsible for overseeing and coordinating all emergency medical services throughout the state, has re-designated The Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Level IIIC Perinatal Referral Center for Maryland. This is the 11th time JHH has earned the certification. MIEMSS noted that JHH met or […]
Commemoration Day marked with cake and photo exhibition
February 27, 2012
On the 136th anniversary of the opening of Johns Hopkins—Feb. 22, 1876—the university marked the inauguration day of its first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, with a celebration on the Homewood campus. Cake was served from noon to 2 p.m. in the Glass Pavilion, where an exhibit of historical photos was on display and student a […]
Deadline for summer PURA applications is March 7
February 27, 2012
Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards, which provide up to $2,500 or academic credit to students to work on original research projects with Johns Hopkins faculty. The deadline for work to be conducted over the summer is Friday, March 7. Proposals for fall-semester projects is Friday, March 28. To […]
University’s emergency text message alert system expands
February 27, 2012
The university’s emergency text message alert system has expanded to cover 12 campuses and other facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Johns Hopkins Emergency Alerts system is now active from Johns Hopkins Bayview in Baltimore south and west to the Montgomery County Campus and the university’s Washington, D.C., buildings near Dupont Circle. Individual JHEA subscriptions […]
‘Afro-American’ newspaper digital archive project completed
February 27, 2012
An online database describing the archival materials held by the Afro-American newspaper has been launched. The three-year Johns Hopkins project—administered jointly by the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies—was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The archive’s home […]