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Health
Staying healthy
A guide to cold and flu season
Published Sept 27, 2016
Experts answer common questions about the common cold (and flu) to help get you through the aches, pains, and sniffles / Johns Hopkins Health Review
A child in Uganda looks at the medical manikin
Global health
Designed to save lives
Published Sept 23, 2016
Students in CBID program create medical devices to solve clinical problems in U.S., abroad
Environmental health
A prelude to Flint
Published Sept 22, 2016
Failure to learn lessons a decade earlier led to Flint water crisis, scientist Marc Edwards says
BSPH part of study on environmental influences on child health
Published Sept 21, 2016
Bloomberg School receives $95M NIH grant to analyze data for new initiative
Sports medicine
Why women are more prone to ACL injuries
Published Sept 20, 2016
Researchers find new evidence of link between testosterone, strength of knee ligament
Michael R. Bloomberg
Philanthropy
Bloomberg gives $300M for public health initiative
Published Sept 15, 2016
Bloomberg American Health Initiative will focus on new approaches to drug addiction, obesity, gun violence, adolescent health, environmental threats
Philip D. Zieve
In memoriam
Philip Zieve dies at 84
Published Sept 14, 2016
Hematologist was instrumental in facilitating physical redevelopment of what is today Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Blue Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, pill
Global health
Jhpiego expands HIV prevention strategy in Kenya
Published Sept 13, 2016
Jhpiego receives $22.3M for project that provides daily pill that could prevent spread of HIV among vulnerable populations
BSPH Centennial
'100 Objects That Shaped Public Health'
Published Sept 13, 2016
Bloomberg School presents list of 100 objects that—for better or worse—affected public health during the last century
Gregg Semenza
Faculty honors
Geneticist wins Lasker Award
Published Sept 13, 2016
Gregg Semenza recognized with one of the most prestigious awards in science for his discovery of how cells sense oxygen