In animal studies, JH scientists have successfully prevented the development of atherosclerosis, the main cause of heart attacks and strokes and the number-one cause of death among humans FA... Read more
Johns Hopkins bioethicists lead a call to reform the ethical foundation of the changing American healthcare system In what they acknowledge as a seismic shift in the ethical foundation of me... Read more
Johns Hopkins to begin decontaminating isolation rooms with robotic, vapor-dispersing devices Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-l... Read more
The device, which provides deep brain stimulation and has been used in thousands of people with Parkinson’s disease, is seen as a possible means of boosting memory and reversing cogni... Read more
The goal is to help doctors make better predictions about how a patient’s illness will progress and what type of treatment will be most effective. Storing music and photos on distant compute... Read more
“We’re developing the future of suture” After a surgeon stitches up a patient’s abdomen, costly complications—some life-threatening—can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Jo... Read more
The new technique potentially will work against any cancer in which tumors elevate production of certain cell surface proteins Experimenting with human prostate cancer cells and mice, cancer... Read more
The use of mushrooms by man for practical, culinary or recreational purposes is said to date back to at least Paleolithic times, with perhaps the best-known variety in recent times being Ama... Read more