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Samuel Kebede
Scholarships
Alum named Gates Cambridge Scholar
Published April 18, 2018
Samuel Kebede, a 2015 JHU graduate, will spend a year studying public health at University of Cambridge
Four students gather around a petri dish
Undergraduate research
A simple way to stop the bleeding
Published April 17, 2018
Engineering students devise blood-clotting 'super gel' that could make oft-repeated procedures more efficient and economical
Ambulance at night
Emergency medicine
Lethal weapons
Published April 16, 2018
Increase in prehospital deaths over the past decade points to intensifying violence
A group of nurses
Speaker series
Nursing in a war zone
Published April 13, 2018
Nursing grad student Kayla Percy discusses her two missions with Doctors Without Borders as part of the student-run Conversations in Medicine series
Two men hold up smartphones showing HopkinsPD app
Computer science
App tracks Parkinson's symptoms
Published April 6, 2018
Using existing smartphone components, app gathers valuable diagnostic data in a non-clinical setting
Illustration of hand refusing a cigarette
Diabetes drug nixes nicotine withdrawal
Published April 5, 2018
Researchers note lack of withdrawal symptoms in mice after they are given common diabetes drug metformin
A woman with a microphone and a man
Global health
Talk to your spouse, improve your health?
Published March 29, 2018
Better communication between spouses in Mali linked to better health outcomes, new research suggests
Virginia Apgar
Women of Hopkins
A leading advocate for neonatal health
Published March 28, 2018
Virginia Apgar, who earned a master's from JHU in 1959, developed the Apgar Score for assessing infant health
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