Combat Veterans’ Brains Reveal Hidden Damage from IED Blasts - 1/14/15
The brains of some Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who survived blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and died later of other causes show a distinctive honeycomb pattern of broken and swollen nerve fibers throughout critical brain regions, including those that control executive function. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 14, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Obituary for Vernon Mountcastle - 1/13/15
Vernon Mountcastle, one of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s giants of the 20th century, died peacefully at his northern Baltimore home on Sunday, Jan. 11, with Nancy, his wife of seven decades, and family at his bedside. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 13, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mutations Linked to Repair of Chromosome Ends May Make Emphysema More Likely in Smokers - 1/13/15
Mutations in a gene that helps repair damaged chromosome ends may make smokers — especially female smokers — more susceptible to emphysema, according to results of a new study led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 13, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Julie Brahmer Appointed Thoracic Cancer Director at Johns Hopkins - 1/12/15
Julie Brahmer, M.D., an expert in the use of immunotherapies to treat lung cancer, has been named director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 12, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Sound Mind, Strong Heart: Same Protein Sustains Both - 1/12/15
A Roman philosopher was the first to note the relationship between a sound mind and a sound body. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 12, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Morris Dees Delivers Keynote at 33rd Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration - 1/9/15
For the 33rd consecutive year, the Johns Hopkins community gathered to celebrate the legacy and life’s work of Martin Luther King Jr. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 9, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Hacking Fat Cells ’ Metabolism Does Not Affect Insulin Resistance - 1/8/15
In the race to find a safe and effective weight loss drug, much attention has focused on the chemical processes that store and use energy. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 8, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins Study Finds Early Physical Rehabilitation in the ICU Leads to Better Patient Outcomes - 1/8/15
In a pre- and post-evaluation study, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that quality improvement processes for delivering early physical rehabilitation in an intensive care unit (ICU) were sustained five years later — benefiting both patients and the health care facility. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 8, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Hacking Fat Cells’ Metabolism Does Not Affect Insulin Resistance - 1/8/15
In the race to find a safe and effective weight loss drug, much attention has focused on the chemical processes that store and use energy. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 8, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Awakening Cells ’ Killer Instinct: Scientists Train Immune System to Destroy Cure-Defying Mutant HIV - 1/7/15
Luring dormant HIV out of hiding and destroying its last cure-defying holdouts has become the holy grail of HIV eradication, but several recent attempts to do so have failed. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 7, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Surprise: High-Dose Testosterone Therapy Helps Some Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer - 1/7/15
In a surprising paradox, the male hormone testosterone, generally thought to be a feeder of prostate cancer, has been found to suppress some advanced prostate cancers and also may reverse resistance to testosterone-blocking drugs used to treat prostate cancer. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 7, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Physical Recovery in Critically Ill Patients Can Predict Remission of General Anxiety and PTSD Symptoms - 1/7/15
In a two-year longitudinal study involving 13 intensive care units in four U.S. hospitals, researchers found that better physical functioning — basic and complex activities considered essential for maintaining independence — is associated with remission of general anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 7, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Brain Scientists Figure Out How A Protein Crucial To Learning And Memory Works - 1/7/15
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found out how a protein crucial to learning works: by removing a biochemical “clamp” that prevents connections between nerve cells in the brain from growing stronger. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 7, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Awakening Cells’ Killer Instinct: Scientists Train Immune System to Destroy Cure-Defying Mutant HIV - 1/7/15
Luring dormant HIV out of hiding and destroying its last cure-defying holdouts has become the holy grail of HIV eradication, but several recent attempts to do so have failed. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 7, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
When DNA Gets Sent to Time-Out - 1/6/15
For a skin cell to do its job, it must turn on a completely different set of genes than a liver cell — and keep genes it doesn’t need switched off. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 6, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
