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Health

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
Genetic disorders
Heart failure reversed in Marfan mice
Published Nov 16, 2017 Video
Study: Increasing stress on Marfan hearts—even at levels well-tolerated in other hearts—can initiate heart failure
A young woman learns to use a cell phone app connected to a manikin doll
Biomedical engineering
Funding NeMo
Published Nov 15, 2017
Hopkins researchers win $100K grant from Gates Foundation for their lifesaving baby monitoring device
Grandmothers in Guatemala learn correct hand-washing techniques
Family health
To make a change, ask an abuela
Published Nov 14, 2017
In rural parts of Guatemala, a Johns Hopkins program teaches essential household skills to the people who traditionally lead the family: the grandmother
Donald Coffey
In memoriam
Johns Hopkins cancer pioneer Donald Coffey dies at 85
Published Nov 12, 2017
He spent more than 50 years at Hopkins, helped found Kimmel Cancer Center
Childhood development
Products of their environments
Published Nov 9, 2017
A neighborhood's quality has a lasting effect on a child's behavior, Bloomberg School researchers find