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A man inspects a toddler's back while she lies on a table in a makeshift examination room
Medicine
Urgent med school
Published Winter 2017
In war-torn Syria, there's a desperate need to find more effective ways to prepare the next generation of medical students in a hurry / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration shows one gray elephant in a long line of multicolored elephant offspring with a person standing nearby looking at a device
Genetics
Revising the genome
Published Winter 2017
CRISPR lets scientists edit our genetic source code. This is going to be interesting. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
During a panel, people in suits talk
JHH hosts hearing on opioid crisis
Published Nov 30, 2017
Congressional hearing focuses on need to attack epidemic from multiple angles, includes proposals from President Trump's opioid commission
Close-up image of gloved hands with blood vials
HIV/AIDS
Prevention program prompts drop in HIV infections
Published Nov 29, 2017
Study of 34,000 people in Uganda suggests U.S.-funded global effort to curb HIV infection in high-risk populations is working
The Healthify team (from left): Alex Villa, Daniel Levenson, Eric Conner, and Manik Bhat
30 Under 30
Hopkins entrepreneurs make 'Forbes' list
Published Nov 29, 2017
Founders of startups Healthify, Osmosis among 'youthful visionaries' recognized by publication
A little boy smiles while he is tickled by his doctor, who has a stethoscope in her ears
Community health
Time for a checkup
Published Nov 28, 2017
Rales Health Center gives students at one Baltimore public charter access to the equivalent of a pediatrician's office right in their own school
Biomedical engineering
Insight into cause of sudden cardiac death
Published Nov 28, 2017
Computer model yields important clues that could lead to better treatments
A long chain of crimped and tangled protein strands sprawls like a bundle of wires
Biology
Making sense of disordered proteins
Published Nov 27, 2017
Disordered proteins are essential to genetic processes, but until recently, scientists understood very little about how these proteins work
Q+A
From data to decision
Published Nov 20, 2017
Computer scientist Greg Hager discusses why engineering is so critical to modern medicine
Technology ventures
JHU announces $65M research commercialization agreement
Published Nov 16, 2017
Bluefield Innovations will help move early stage therapeutic research to the marketplace