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Four people on a panel
Race in America
Taking stock of Puerto Rico
Published March 28, 2018
Six months after Hurricane Maria, experts explore storm's impacts on island in panel discussion
Naloxone
Public Health
Who should be trained to use naloxone?
Published March 27, 2018
The people who witness the most overdoses—and are best positioned to prevent and reverse them—tend to be drug users themselves
Handgun
Gun policy
The case for funding firearm research
Published March 20, 2018
As gun policy debate rages, scientists say funding for research is critical / Wired
Hospital corridor
Physician training
Battling med school burnout
Published March 20, 2018
Study: Limiting the length of shifts for medical trainees improves their reported well-being but doesn't impair their education
A woman teaches a class
Opioid crisis
Learning to treat pain
Published March 19, 2018
Required course for next generation of physicians highlights the hazards of prescribing opioids
Tara Loyd and James Keck kiss in Alaska
Alumni
A public health love story
Published March 13, 2018
Bloomberg School alums travel the world to improve the health of people in need—with two toddlers in tow
Spencer Grace Tully
Pathology
Spencer Grace's last gift
Published Spring 2018
Rapid autopsy procedures shed light on how deadly diseases develop and how they might be cured in the future / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Excerpt from cover of Medicalizing Blackness
History
Medicine and race
Published Spring 2018
Hopkins alum's new book examines racist medical ideas about blackness that were used to justify slavery and still influence medical disparities today / Johns Hopkins Magazine
illustration of a wolf
Cancer and the artillery of physics
Published Spring 2018
Andrew Ewald is at the vanguard of a generation of scientists determined to uncover the complexities of cancer / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A cartoon illustration shows a figure throwing paper into a trashcan
When the abuser is a child, too
Published Spring 2018 Video
The criminal justice system is failing children convicted of child sex abuse, Hopkins researchers say / Johns Hopkins Magazine