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Public health

New playbook for addressing health misinformation

Published March 6, 2024

The guide offers a hands-on approach to help public health practitioners, medical professionals, and health communicators recognize and respond to health-related rumors and misinformation

Gun violence

What the conviction of a school shooter's parent could mean

Published March 1, 2024

Recent conviction of Michigan mother underscores role of safe storage and Child Access Protection laws in preventing gun violence, Hopkins expert says

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A closer look at Alabama's IVF ruling

Published Feb 27, 2024

The ruling that frozen embryos are children could set the stage for a national fetal personhood law, but restricting IVF is generally unpopular, Hopkins bioethicist Ruth Faden says

President's Frontier Award

Trauma surgeon and gun violence survivor Joseph Sakran honored

Published Feb 16, 2024

Sakran, director of emergency general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, will receive a $250,000 grant to further his work among medical professionals to reduce firearm injuries and deaths

COVID-19

Study: Rapid home tests are reliable

Published Feb 14, 2024

Findings suggest physicians can feel confident prescribing treatment based on results from patient-reported, self-administered tests

Microbiology

Exploring sex-specific features of HIV

Published Feb 6, 2024

Johns Hopkins researcher Eileen Scully advocates for including sex as a biological variable in preclinical and clinical trials

Health equity

Hopkins launches Center for Global Women's Health and Gender Equity

Published Feb 5, 2024

The new center will address key issues facing women's health

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Heart health

Universal risk predictor for cardiovascular disease

Published Jan 30, 2024

Developed by Bloomberg School researchers, the model could change how doctors worldwide assess patients' chances for heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiac events