Impact of 2002 Canadian forest fires felt 700 miles away in Baltimore, Maryland
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed how airborne particulate matter from forest fires in the Canadian providence of Quebec traveled more than 700 miles to homes in Baltimore, Md. The study authors found a dramatic increase in outdoor and indoor fine particulate matter an atmospheric pollutant that is harmful to people with respiratory diseases in Baltimo...Maryland's Pearlin to receive GSA's 2004 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award
The Gerontological Society of America has chosen Dr. Leonard I. Pearlin of the University of Maryland at College Park's Sociology Department to receive its 2004 Award for the Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology. This prize is given annually to an individual whose theoretical contributions have helped bring about a new synthesis and perspective or have yielded original and elegant res...University of Maryland School of Medicine scientist receives prestigious presidential award
A University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty member has received the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Steven D. Munger, PhD, assistant professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, was honored for his research into the sense of taste....... Dr. Munger's study, funde...Maryland's 1990 'Saturday night special' ban reduced gun homicides in the state, new study shows
The Maryland law banning "Saturday night special" handguns was associated with a 9 percent decrease in firearm homicides in the state between 1990-1998, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study was published in the March 2002 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol. 155, No.5:...NIH grant keeps University of Maryland on the cutting edge of complementary and alternative medicine
. . The University of Maryland School of Medicine's Complementary Medicine Program has received a $7.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund a wide range of new research into alternative treatments for pain, including acupuncture, mind/body therapies and herbal remedies. The grant establishes the University of Maryland as a Specialized Center for Complementary and A....The University of Maryland School of Medicine will receive $24 million over six.years from the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis Pharma AG to discover new.treatments for schizophrenia. This collaboration brings together one of the.country's leading academic research centers in schizophrenia and one of the.world's largest pharmaceutical companies.. .The partnership will initiate important basi....An experimental new treatment for advanced colon cancer shows promise of saving.thousands of lives a year, says a University of Maryland Medical Center.physician who has begun clinical trials.. . The therapy involves intravenous administration of two standard drugs.and a newer drug in a different combination than the standard treatment. Early.results from a similar study showed complete..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
LINTHICUM, MD, April 20 - A new mathematical model has been developed to improve...the response to emergencies by better situating trauma care centers and...aeromedical depots. The results are presented in a paper being delivered at the...Montreal conference of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management...Sciences (INFORMS) and the Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) on...Tu...