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...HIV infection rate and risky behavior decline amoung injection drug users in Baltimore
Injection drug users (IDUs) in Baltimore, Md. have decreased their risky behavior, as well as their chances of contracting HIV, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings showed the incidence of HIV infection among IDUs declined 12 percent a year during the decade-long study period. The study is published in the October 2002 issue of the American J...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and University of Maryland School of Medicine .to develop ground-breaking measles vaccine for infants in developing countries . .The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded grants of $20 million each to the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health to develop a new type of measles vaccine that,...