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Research funding cuts: What's at stake
Published Summer 2025
Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The water access gap
Published Summer 2025
A new survey led by the Center for Indigenous Health seeks to gauge water access on Navajo Nation / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Instruments of healing
Published Summer 2025 Video
At Johns Hopkins Hospital, music therapists use stirring rhythms and soothing melodies to support patients and their families during the hardest moments of their lives / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A dream device
Published Summer 2025
A group of Johns Hopkins alumni have developed a less-invasive treatment for sleep apnea / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Research matters
Breakthrough autoimmune treatments slowed
Published June 24, 2025
Federal budget cuts have created "a climate of anxiety" among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins. But those who live with autoimmune diseases could suffer the greatest consequences.
Research in action
A baby's 'mission critical' surgery
Published June 24, 2025 Video
Bernie was born with congenital glaucoma, a condition that requires urgent intervention. A team of pediatric ophthalmologists at Wilmer Eye Institute acted quickly to save her eyesight.
Research Saves Lives
Food allergy management made easier
Published June 17, 2025
The Johns Hopkins-led OUtMATCH study, which enrolled clinical trial participants at 10 locations across the U.S., leads to the second-ever FDA-approved food allergy treatment
Medicine
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Published June 4, 2025
Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable
Research matters
How extreme heat affects America's most vulnerable
Published June 3, 2025
Federally funded research by JHU epidemiologist Jaime Madrigano aims to identify neighborhood characteristics and behavior patterns that increase vulnerability to heat
Cancer research
Immunotherapy plus chemotherapy boosts lung cancer survival rate
Published June 3, 2025
Study examines treatment options for those with operable non-small cell lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide
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