Johns Hopkins begins aggressive screening for 'superbugs' in children
... ... The new hospital practice was introduced March 1 after a study conducted at Hopkins last year showed th...Johns Hopkins develops pancreas cancer risk model
... An estimated 10 percent of aggressive and highly fatal cases of the disease are caused by inherited genes. Even if there is a 100 percent chance that an individual carries a pancreas ca...March of Dimes, Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute launch prematurity prevention partnership
... Six Kentucky hospitals representing diverse geographic regions are participating in Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait and are divided into "inter...Diagnosis and referrals for kidney disease fall well short of need, Johns Hopkins study shows
... Their findings, reported in the August issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, show that of 126 kidney specialists surveyed, 97 percent properly diagnosed CKD and 99 percent would have recommended specialized kidney care for the "patient." But only 59 percent of the 89 family physicians and 78 percent of 89 ge...Johns Hopkins Children's Center to lead largest-ever study on kidney disease in children
... "There has never, to our knowledge, been a study designed to systematically assess the changes in kidney function over time in children with early kidney disease and to determine how these changes affect behavior, learning, heart disease risk and growth," says Susan Furth, M.D., Ph.D., a nephrologist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, one of...Johns Hopkins lab scientists tame overactive CF protein
... ... ... ... "The hope is that these findings will be used to design therapies and drugs...Two tests better than one for diabetes control, Johns Hopkins expert tells doctors
In a strongly worded review published in the recent edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the head of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Center urges physicians and patients to better use the blood-testing tools at hand to manage the disease and prevent most of its dire impact on the heart, kidneys, nerves and vision....... "The message is, we have tools that are very accurat...Johns Hopkins scientists exploit novel route to reverse enlarged hearts in obese mice
Working on genetically engineered obese mice with seriously thickened hearts, a condition call cardiac hypertrophy, scientists at Johns Hopkins have used a nerve protection and growth factor on the heart to mimic the activity of the brain hormone leptin, dramatically reducing the size of the heart muscle. ...... Leptin is a protein hormone made by fat cells that signals the brain to stop eating....Johns Hopkins scientists map brain area that may aid hunt for human brain stem cells
A study led by a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon has provided the first comprehensive map of a part of the adult human brain containing astrocytes, cells known to produce growth factors critical to the regeneration of damaged neural tissue and that potentially serve as brain stem cells. The mapping study -- using special microscopes and chemical analysis of 42 samples of brain tissue taken at autopsy...Johns Hopkins study suggests link between caffeine dependence and family history of alcoholism
A study led by Johns Hopkins investigators has shown that women with a serious caffeine habit and a family history of alcohol abuse are more likely to ignore advice to stop using caffeine during pregnancy....Withdrawal symptoms, functional impairment and craving were cited by the women as reasons they could not cut out or cut back on caffeine use....... None of the women had a current alcohol-use...Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers
Johns Hopkins' senior hospital epidemiologist and flu expert is calling for mandatory vaccination of all health care workers as the best means of protecting patients and hospital staff from widespread outbreaks of the viral illness. Studies by other United States researchers show that voluntary vaccination programs don't do the job and that each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die from influenza,...Nov. 11 event celebrates a century of brain science at Johns Hopkins
Media are invited to attend the Nov. 11 symposium "Discovery and Hope: A Celebration of Brain Science," featuring two Nobel laureates and a host of other top neuroscientists from around the country, at Turner Auditorium at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. The daylong symposium will begin at 8 a.m. ......Johns Hopkins researchers started delving into the functions and ab...Some outgrow allergy to tree nuts, Johns Hopkins Children's Center experts report
Nine percent of children allergic to almonds, pecans, cashews and other tree nuts outgrow their allergy over time, including those who've had a severe reaction such as anaphylaxis shock, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. ...... Their study, reported in the November issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, also found that clinicians can use blood leve...Johns Hopkins celebrates its first century of neuroscience
...--Solomon Snyder, the neuroscience department's first and only director, leads a symposium and celebration that looks back at historic discoveries at Hopkins and looks ahead to what's coming next in the brain sciences. ... ...... What's in a name? At Johns Hopkins, a formal Department of Neuroscience was founded 25 years ago, but the institution's contributions to understanding and studying t...ASH and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partner to launch new award program
(WASHINGTON, October 19, 2005) The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is teaming up with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in an effort to increase the number of minority scholars in the field of hematology. In partnership with RWJF's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP), ASH is pleased to announce the creation of the ASH-AMFDP, which will provide four-year post-doc...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins Heart Institute have been awarded more than $12 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to study how stem cell therapies can be used to treat hearts damaged by heart attack or heart failure. ...... The five-year NHLBI funding is part of new federal program focused on cell-based therapies that could be ready for clinical trials testing...Johns Hopkins researchers discover key protein linked to transverse myelitis and multiple sclerosis
Hopkins researchers have discovered a single molecule that is a cause of an autoimmune disease in the central nervous system, called transverse myelitis (TM), that is related to multiple sclerosis.... ...In a study published in the October issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, psychiatrist Adam Kaplin, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicin...At Johns Hopkins: Emphasis on improved care and faster access to services shortens hospital stays
Physicians at The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) have disproved the notion that longer hospital stays mean better care. They have successfully cut back on wait times across one dozen hospital departments and, as a result, reduced to well below six the average number of days patients with congestive heart failure, a need for dialysis or surgery, and many other conditions must spend in the hospital....Johns Hopkins scientists uncover clues to 'disappearing' precancers
New research sheds light on why cervical precancers disappear in some women and not in others. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report in the July 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research that the reason many of these lesions persist is an unlikely mix of human papilloma virus (HPV) strain and a woman's individual immune system.... ...For decades, scientists have known that HPV ca...Johns Hopkins scientists use gene therapy to prevent heart arrhythmias from stem cell transplants
Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins believe they have figured a way around a persistent barrier to successful adult stem cell therapy for millions of Americans who have survived a heart attack but remain at risk of dying from chronic heart failure. ...... Two clinical trials since 2002 using transplanted adult stem cells successfully led to tissue regrowth in damaged hearts, but 11 of 18 patients...Johns Hopkins AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS
A Johns Hopkins physician and scientist who has spent a quarter-century leading major efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide has issued an urgent call for global strategies and resources to confront the rapid "feminization" of the AIDS pandemic. ...... In an article appearing in the journal Science online June 10, Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at Hopkins and a senior...Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have uncovered how a majority of the genetic changes in the hepatic-C virus, the most common cause of liver disease, allow it to evade the body's immune system during infection. Hepatitis C infection can lead to cirrhosis, cancer and even death. In a series of experiments that describe the virus' transition from an acute to chronic infection, the Hopkins team found...Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
...... Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have evidence that more than one-third of young women are willing and able to use a free, easily available home test kit to privately and accurately learn if they are infected with Chlamydia trachomatis, the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in this group....... Among the women, mostly under age 25, who used the kit -- developed by Hopki...Depression is common in patients after heart attack, new Johns Hopkins study shows
Researchers at Johns Hopkins' Evidenced-Based Practice Center have found that one in five patients hospitalized for heart attack experiences a major depression. According to the Hopkins cardiologists who conducted the study, these depressed patients are 50 percent more likely than other heart attack patients to need hospital care for a heart problem again within a year and three times as likely...