Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have begun what is believed to be the first clinical trial in the United States of adult mesenchymal stem cells to repair muscle damaged by heart attack, or myocardial infarct. ......The so-called Phase I study is designed to test the safety of injecting adult stem cells at varying doses in patients who have recently suffered a heart attack. .........An estimate...Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
Timing is everything when it comes to killing prostate cancer cells with specially tailored vaccines, say scientists testing the drugs in mice at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. ...... .......Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
Special Note: A press event with the conference leaders will be held on Thursday, March 3, at noon central time, at the Marriott Downtown Chicago, 540 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill., 60611. ......CHICAGO, Ill. -- Kidney transplant experts from across the United States will convene here March 2 to March 5, 2005, to design a national paired kidney exchange program. Paired kidney exchanges pro...'Exercise Hypertension' occurs when cells can't 'relax,' Hopkins researchers find
So-called "exercise hypertension," an abnormally high spike in blood pressure experienced by generally healthy people during a workout, is a known risk factor for permanent and serious high blood pressure at rest. But who gets it, and why, has been largely unknown....... Now, Johns Hopkins scientists say they have reason to believe that the problem is rooted in the failure of cells that line th...Hopkins' young researchers honored for their contributions
For students, residents and postdoctoral fellows at Johns Hopkins, conducting research is an opportunity to learn -- not just things they don't know, but things the world doesn't know. ... ...On April 8, 2004, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will once again recognize the outstanding and important contributions of its graduate and medical students, postdoctoral fellows and clinical...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., and astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi, Ph.D., have been named recipients of the 2003 National Medal of Science, the United States' top scientific recognition, the White House announced today. ...... The two will be the seventh and eighth Johns Hopkins faculty members to receive this honor. Giacconi and Snyder will receive the medals in a White...Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control receives elite recognition from PAHO/WHO
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been designated a "collaborating center" of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO). As a collaborating center, the IGTC will work to support global efforts to reduce tobacco use. The IGTC is one of three tobacco control surveillance and evaluation col...Hunt for autism genes to be led by Hopkins researchers
With a three-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins scientists will lead the largest hunt for genetic contributors to autism, a neuropsychiatric condition whose causes are almost as mysterious today as when the condition was first described in 1943....... The researchers will apply new genome searching technologies to available samples and information...Most household cleaners remove peanut allergens, Hopkins study shows
Peanut allergy sufferers and their parents take note: a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study finds that most soaps and household cleaners will remove enough peanut allergen from hands and dining surfaces at home and in schools to prevent an attack. ......Comparing how well assorted cleaners or plain water remove Ara h 1, the most common peanut allergen, the Hopkins researchers showed that most p...Hopkins researchers find MRI useful tool in diagnosing inflammatory bowel diseases in children
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), coupled with the use of the contrast dye gadolinium, may help pediatricians better diagnose children with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.... ...Results of the study, published in the March issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, showed that the gadolinium-enhanced MRI (G-MRI) confi...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Peter Agre, M.D., 54, professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, today was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Academy recognized him for his laboratory's 1991 discovery of the long-sought "channels" that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all...Hopkins researchers study heart defect that kills athletes
Physicians at Johns Hopkins, with colleagues around the globe, are seeking families to help them learn more about a rare heart condition that kills athletes and seems to run in families.... ... ARVD, or arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, occurs when the healthy heart muscle tissue of the right ventricle is replaced by fat and scar tissue. In a healthy person, electrical activation of t...Planners and policy makers have long discounted the publics ability to participate in a response to bioterrorism, because of a belief that an attack would create mass panic and social disorder. ... However, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who reviewed the publics response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the recent anthrax mailings, and other disast...Hopkins researcher finds retroviral 'footprint' in brains of people with schizophrenia
... A research team led by a Johns Hopkins Childrens Center scientist has found the strongest evidence yet that a virus may contribute to some cases of schizophrenia.... ... In this weeks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Childrens Center neurovirologist Robert Yolken, M.D., and his colleagues report the molecular "footprint" of a retrovirus in the cerebrospinal fluid of abou...Hopkins gene therapy trial is first to activate entire human immune system against prostate cancer
. Johns Hopkins cancer researchers report the successful use of human gene.therapy to activate the human immune system against metastatic prostate cancer. .The achievement, believed to be a first, could have implications in the.treatment of many kinds of cancer. The study results are published in the.October 15, 1999* issue of Cancer Research.. .The Hopkins team injected a genetically engin...Hopkins study shows combined hormone therapy increases muscle, decreases fat in postmenopausal women
.A combined hormone therapy of estrogen and androgen may improve body composition.in postmenopausal women, according to results of a Johns Hopkins study to be.presented at 1 p.m., June 12, at ENDO 99, the 81st annual meeting of The Endocrine Society.in San Diego.. .Adrian S. Dobs, M.D., senior author of the study and an associate professor of.endocrinology and metabolism at Hopkins, led researc...Essential 'Allergy Feedback Loop' Discovered By Hopkins
.Blood test results from hayfever victims testing an experimental.anti-allergy drug have led investigators at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy.Center to discovery of an essential immune system feedback loop that appears to.be a basic mechanism driving all allergies.. . The biochemical loop, the scientists say, links the amount of.immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibody, overabundant in people.... Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center used high doses of the.chemotherapy.drug cyclophosphamide alone to control previously untreatable forms of.autoimmune disorders.such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and hemolytic anemia.. . Their findings are reported in the December 15, 1998 issue of Annals of.Internal.Medicine.. . Of eight patients treated in the study with stand-al...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
Johns Hopkins has established the region's first AIDS care capitation program.for patients covered by Medicaid, the state-supported health insurance plan..Also one of the first in the nation, the program will use Hopkins specialists.and its network of sub-specialists to provide all health care to subscribers. . The program is a prototype for HIV care that could be adopted nationally.in the next...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center have developed the first under-the-skin narcotic drug implant for the treatment of pain in cancer patients. The researchers believe that the polymer implant could offer an alternative to external drug delivery systems used to treat serious pain and may be a potential technique for the management of drug addiction.. The button-sized polymer works...