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Health
Ideas wanted
Published Sept 3, 2013
Social Innovation Lab, founded at JHU, seeks proposals aimed at solving local, global problems
'Hypervigilance' about race linked to blood pressure
Published Sept 2013
Heightened consciousness could at least in part account for the disproportionately high rate of hypertension in black Americans / Gazette
$5.8 million grant to fund study of frailty in older adults
Published Sept 2013
Researchers aim to speed the development of interventions to slow or stop it / Gazette
Life after radiation
Published Sept 2013
Research suggests brain can generate new cells able to replace injured cells, potentially restore lost function after radiation / Gazette
TB antibiotics reduce deaths in HIV patients
Published Sept 2013
Findings stem from expansion of clinic-based community health program designed to curb the spread of TB / Gazette
Tick talk
Published Sept 2013
Environmental infectious diseases are the focus of JHU's Fisher Center / Gazette
Water warriors
Published Sept 2013 Photos
JHU fellows head out on the Chesapeake Bay to battle threats of global climate change / Gazette
Lighthearted
Jumpstart the heart (gently)
Published Aug 28, 2013
Researchers explore use of light as alternative to electric jolts in treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias
Target: Brain tumors
Published Aug 27, 2013
Researchers find promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumors / Hopkins Medicine
Professor Richard Morrow, pioneer in international public health, dies at 81
Published Aug 20, 2013
He helped establish public health programs in developing countries / School of Public Health