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School of Medicine

Learning from the man known only as 'him'

Published Winter 2016

First-year medical students still rely on cadavers to learn anatomy / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Hallucinogen eases depression, anxiety in cancer patients

Published Dec 1, 2016

In small study, psilocybin, the active compound in 'magic mushrooms,' increased life satisfaction among patients with life-threatening cancer / Johns Hopkins Medicine

Peter Agre (left) and Carol Greider (right)

Open letter

To Trump, from scientists

Published Nov 30, 2016

JHU's Agre, Greider join more than 2,300 scientists in urging new administration to respect 'scientific integrity and independence' / The Washington Post

Evolution

Lucy liked to climb

Published Nov 30, 2016

CT scans of fossil's bones indicate human ancestor spent a significant amount of time in trees

Sports science

Signs of brain injuries seen in young NFL players

Published Nov 29, 2016

Findings add to mounting evidence of connection between concussions and the neurodegenerative disease CTE

Ed Schlesinger, Gregory Hager, and Michael Klag

Health care

Value in collaboration

Published Nov 21, 2016

JHU's Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare symposium brings together experts in biomedical engineering, computer science, health care

Global health

$30M grant fuels air pollution study

Published Nov 8, 2016

Johns Hopkins receives $30M grant for study of cook stove fuels and their effects on maternal, infant health

The Cryoablation team who competed at the Collegiate Inventors Competition (from left) Bailey Surtees, Sarah Lee, Yixin Clarisse Hu, and Serena Thomas.

Undergrad research

JHU team takes bronze

Published Nov 7, 2016

Students place third at Collegiate Inventors Competition with low-cost cryotherapy system to treat breast cancer

Heart Health

Going with the flow

Published Nov 3, 2016

Visualizing blood flow in the heart could help reduce the risk of stroke / Hopkins Medicine

Biomedical engineering

A stand-up CT machine

Published Oct 27, 2016

Weight-bearing scanner gives doctors a way to see bone breaks that may have gone undetected