Study Documents Extent of Unexpected Sexual Consequences for Young Women Who Drink Alcohol - 8/20/15
In-depth interviews conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine of 20 young women attending an urban sexually transmitted disease clinic have documented a variety of unexpected, unintended sexual encounters linked to their alcohol use before sex occurs. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 20, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Clamshell-Shaped Protein Puts the 'Jump' in 'Jumping Genes' - 8/19/15
Scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have deciphered the structure and unusual shape of a bacterial protein that prepares segments of DNA for the insertion of so-called jumping genes. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 19, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
'Jumping Genes' Unusually Active in Many Gastrointestinal Cancers, Studies Find - 8/18/15
Results of a trio of studies done on human cancer tissue biopsies have added to growing evidence that a so-called jumping gene called LINE-1 is active during the development of many gastrointestinal cancers. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 18, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Scientists Report Success Using Zebrafish Embryos to Identify Potential New Diabetes Drugs - 8/18/15
In experiments with 500,000 genetically engineered zebrafish embryos, Johns Hopkins scientists report they have developed a potentially better and more accurate way to screen for useful drugs, and they have used it to identify 24 drug candidates that increase the number of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 18, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Alert to Biologists: Ribosomes Can Translate the 'Untranslated Region' of Messenger RNA - 8/17/15
In what appears to be an unexpected challenge to a long-accepted fact of biology, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found that ribosomes — the molecular machines in all cells that build proteins — can sometimes do so even within the so-called untranslated regions of the ribbons of genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA). (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 17, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins Researchers Sound Off on the Dangers of Hospital Consolidation - 8/17/15
In a commentary published in the Aug. 13 issue of JAMA, Johns Hopkins experts say consolidation of hospitals into massive chains threatens healthy competition, reduces patient choice and could drive up medical expenses. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 17, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Medical Student Tiffany Ho Elected to the American Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors - 8/14/15
Tiffany Ho, M.P.H., a member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s class of 2016, has been elected to serve as a student member on the American Academy of Family Physicians board of directors for the next year. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 14, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Richard S. Ross, Longtime Johns Hopkins Medical School Dean, Dies - 8/13/15
Richard S. Ross, M.D., former dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, vice president for medicine of The Johns Hopkins University and a renowned cardiologist who served as president of the American Heart Association, died Aug. 11, 2015. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 13, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Pulmonary Hypertension: A Growing Problem in U.S. Children - 8/12/15
A review of 15 years’ worth of data in a national pediatric medical database has documented a substantial increase in the rate of hospitalizations for children with a form of high blood pressure once most common in those with congenital heart disease. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 12, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins, Mayo Experts Suggest Upgrades to Current Heart Disease Prevention Guidelines - 8/11/15
Acknowledging key strengths and “lessons learned,” preventive cardiologists from Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic have developed a short list of suggested upgrades to the controversial heart disease prevention guidelines issued jointly in 2013 by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 11, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Hepatitis C Infection May Fuel Heart Risk - 8/11/15
People infected with the hepatitis C virus are at risk for liver damage, but the results of a new Johns Hopkins study now show the infection may also spell heart trouble. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 11, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Research Advances Potential for a Globally Accurate Diagnostic Test and Vaccine for Genital and Oral Herpes - 8/11/15
Findings from a pair of new studies could speed up the development of a universally accurate diagnostic test for human herpes simplex viruses (HSV), according to researchers at Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 11, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Survey Reveals Best Practices That Lead to High Patient Ratings of Hospital Care - 8/10/15
Based on responses to questionnaires and letters sent to CEOs and medical personnel from a nationwide sample of 53 hospitals, Johns Hopkins investigators have identified a handful of best practices they say are most likely to give patients a positive hospital experience, a sense of satisfaction and the feeling they come first. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 10, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Scientists Report Explanation for Protein Clumps in Autopsy Brain Cells of ALS Patients - 8/6/15
Autopsies of nearly every patient with the lethal neurodegenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and many with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), show pathologists telltale clumps of a protein called TDP-43. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 6, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Researchers Identify Drug Candidate for Skin, Hair Regeneration Among Scarred Victims of Burns and Trauma - 8/6/15
Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a novel cell signaling pathway in mice through which mammals — presumably including people — can regenerate hair follicles and skin while healing from wounds. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - August 6, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
