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A teeny-tiny problem of epic proportions
Published Winter 2024
Maya Dizack, BSPH '24 (ScM), set out years ago on a journey down the Mississippi River to see how widespread microplastics were in this major body of water. Her findings were more alarming than expected. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Eating malfunction
Published Winter 2024
Next to opioid use disorder, anorexia is the most deadly mental health illness. In all, 5% of patients will die within the first four years of diagnosis as a result of heart failure, organ shutdown, low blood sugar, or suicide. The Eating Disorders Coalition reports that every 52 minutes, at least one person loses their life as a direct result of an eating disorder. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Hopkins leaders announce investments, partnerships in India
Published Dec 5, 2024
Weeklong trip organized by JHU's Gupta-Klinsky India Institute included announcements about support for work on pediatric tuberculosis, career advancement for women in STEMM fields
Public health
Life expectancy lower in the U.S. than in the U.K.
Published Dec 3, 2024
Report finds that life expectancy in the U.S. is, on average, 78.6 years versus 81.3 years in England and Wales—a gap that could be narrowed by policy changes, researchers say
World AIDS Day
40 years of HIV and AIDS leadership
Published Nov 27, 2024
A look back at how Johns Hopkins has led AIDS and HIV clinical care, research, and education locally and around the world
Research
Hopkins scholars among world's most cited researchers
Published Nov 22, 2024
52 researchers affiliated with JHU are among the 6,636 individuals on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate Analytics
In Memoriam
Diane Edmund Griffin, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute founder, dies at 84
Published Nov 1, 2024
Griffin joined Johns Hopkins in 1970, where she completed groundbreaking research in virology and was founding director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Medicine
A visionary new tool for cataract surgery
Published Oct 31, 2024
Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new color-changing hydrogel that could reduce complications from cataract surgery, one of the world's most commonly performed procedures
Indigenous health
Center for Indigenous Health opens new South Dakota location
Published Oct 17, 2024
The Great Plains Hub recently opened in Rapid City, South Dakota, under the leadership of Donald Warne, the center's co-director
Medical innovation
Rapid detection of early heart attack warning signs
Published Oct 16, 2024
With heart attacks, every second counts. A Hopkins team developed a blood test that diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home.
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