Johns Hopkins Medicine

Hopkins Hosts First Annual Conference On Information Technologies At The Point Of Care
17 Jun 04 | New technologies that are changing clinical decision making and patient care - right at the point where that care is delivered - will be explored at a conference on June 18 in the Turner Building of Johns Hopkins' East Baltimore campus.

New Treatment Stops Nasty Side Effects Of Thyroid Cancer Surgery, International Study Shows
16 Jun 04 | A new approach to therapy can avoid most of the debilitating effects of preparing for critical, postsurgical treatment for patients with thyroid cancer, according to an international study led by researchers from Johns Hopkins and the Univ. of Pisa.

Home Visiting Program Falls Short Of Goal To Prevent Child Maltreatment
15 Jun 04 | A highly lauded and widely adopted program that relies on home visits by paraprofessionals to promote effective parenting in families at risk of child abuse succeeded in building trust, but neither prevented abuse nor reduced known risk factors.

Patient Safety Lapses In Children's Care Are Prevalent, Drive Up National Health Care Costs
07 Jun 04 | Patient safety problems for hospitalized children occur frequently and with substantial impact on the children, as well as on the health care industry, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Docetaxel Extends Life In Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients
07 Jun 04 | Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center clinicians were among those at leading institutions that have completed a three-year international study showing that docetaxel, a drug made from yew tree needles, decreases the chance of dying by 24 percent.

Prostate Cancer Pill May Stave Off Disease And Ease Pain
05 Jun 04 | Recent clinical studies led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have found that a drug called atrasentan reduces the risk by 20 percent that cancer will progress in men with advanced hormone-resistant prostate cancer.

Gene Mutation And Use Of Certain Antidepressants May Decrease Effects Of Breast Cancer Drug
05 Jun 04 | Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Indiana University and the University of Michigan have found that some women have a gene mutation that may decrease the effectiveness of tamoxifen, a commonly used breast cancer drug.

Doctors Don't Agree On Diagnosis Of Uterine Cancer
02 Jun 04 | A Gynecologic Oncology Group study, headed by Cornelia Trimble, M.D. of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, has revealed that pathologists who evaluate uterine biopsies disagree 60 percent of the time on whether the specimens contain cancer.

Stem Cells Can Convert To Liver Tissue, Help Restore Damaged Organ
01 Jun 04 | Bone marrow stem cells, when exposed to damaged liver tissue, can quickly convert into healthy liver cells and help repair the damaged organ, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Inexperienced Surgeons Operate On Most Ovarian Cancer Patients In Maryland
27 May 04 | Johns Hopkins researchers report that more than half of ovarian cancer surgeries in Maryland are done by surgeons who perform the operation only once or at most four times a year.

Chronic Care Medicine: Physicians Say "Help!"
27 May 04 | In a national survey of practicing family physicians, pediatricians, internists and surgeons, the majority reported that their training in chronic care medicine was too thin overall to meet the demands of their practices.

Mutant Biological Machine Makes Proteins But Can't Let Go
27 May 04 | Writing in the May 28 issue of Cell, Johns Hopkins researchers report that four critical components of cells' protein-building machine don't do what scientists had long assumed.

Hopkins Launches Vivien Thomas Fund To Increase Diversity
26 May 04 | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine announced today the establishment of the Vivien Thomas Fund for Diversity to increase the number of minorities in the academic medicine talent pool.

Shortened Chromosomes Linked To Early Stages Of Cancer Development
26 May 04 | Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have evidence that abnormally short telomeres, the end-caps on chromosomes that normally preserve genetic integrity, appear to play a role in the early development of many types of cancer.

HBO Movie Tells Story Of Two Hopkins Breakthroughs: One Medical, One Interracial
25 May 04 | Based on the true story of two unlikely partners – a black lab technician and a prominent white surgeon – who together in one famous operation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the racially segregated 1940s ushered in the era of heart surgery.

David B. March Joins Communications Staff At Johns Hopkins Medicine
24 May 04 | David B. March, a science writer and former public relations agency consultant, has joined the media relations staff at Johns Hopkins Medicine's Office of Corporate Communications.

Tumor Suppressor Gene Family May Be Key To New Colon Cancer Drugs
20 May 04 | In the hunt for new cancer drug targets, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered mutations in a family of genes linked to more than a quarter of colon cancers.

Stem Cells Toward Sperm Cells And Back Again
18 May 04 | In experiments with fruit flies, Johns Hopkins scientists have restored the insect's sperm-making stem cells by triggering cells on the way to becoming sperm to reverse course. The unexpected findings are described in the May 13 issue of Science.

Urine Protein Test: A Tipoff To Kidney Transplant Rejection
18 May 04 | Johns Hopkins researchers have developed the basis of an inexpensive, simple urine test that identifies impending kidney failure or rejection following transplant surgery.

Oxygen Therapy May Improve Vision Worsened By Diabetes
17 May 04 | Oxygen delivered through the nose may improve poor vision caused by diabetic macular edema, fluid buildup in the part of the eye responsible for central vision, according to a pilot study by scientists at Johns Hopkins and the National Eye Institute.