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Watercolor painting telepathy.
Grad student experience
Comfort through company
Published Feb 4, 2025
Students Offering Optimism to Help, or SOOTHE, gives companionship to patients while teaching future doctors about the human side of medicine
Headshots of Arturo Casadevall and David Sullivan
Q+A
Convalescent plasma offers a 'blueprint' for future pandemics
Published Feb 3, 2025
Hopkins researchers help secure full FDA approval to treat immunocompromised COVID-19 patients—paving the way to explore using convalescent plasma during future infectious disease outbreaks
A glass of wine and a pint of beer sit on a wooden bar
Q+A
How risky is that pint?
Published Jan 28, 2025
A call for cancer warnings on labels for beer, wine, and spirits is a lesson in risk management, says Hopkins cancer expert Otis Brawley
Hairdresser dyeing a woman's hair in a salon
Environmental Health and Engineering
Study finds harmful airborne chemicals in salons
Published Jan 16, 2025
Johns Hopkins researchers found that women of reproductive age are the most vulnerable to the negative health effects caused by chemicals in hair relaxers, dyes, and other salon products
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (blue). Microscopy by CDC; repositioned and recolored by NIAID
Q+A
How serious is bird flu?
Published Jan 13, 2025
As the first bird flu death in the U.S. sparks concern over the ongoing spread of the virus, epidemiologist and microbiologist Meghan Davis explains what to know and do
Photo of hearing test equipment, including a chart, headphones, and an otoscope
Public Health
Know your Hearing Numbers
Published Jan 13, 2025
The Know Your Hearing campaign aims to boost public awareness of the importance of knowing your Hearing Number, which measures how well you can hear
Yuan He
Cell biology
Structural biology expert Yuan He named BDP
Published Jan 2, 2025
He explores how flaws in the transcription and DNA repair pathways contribute to cancer predisposition, accelerated aging
Kuan-Hao Chao stands at a podium and speaks. There is a desktop screen on the podium.
Artificial Intelligence
New AI tool pinpoints gene splicing
Published Dec 11, 2024
A recent innovation from Johns Hopkins researchers enables deeper insights into gene function and disease-linked mutations
an assortment of unhealthy foods on a table, including a hamburger, fries, candy, chocolate, soda, and a donut
Public Health
Americans eat high amounts of ultraprocessed foods
Published Dec 10, 2024
Bloomberg School analysis finds that more than half of calories consumed at home by adults in the U.S. come from ultraprocessed foods  
Microplastics thumb art
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