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Delivering obstetrics care
Published Feb 2013
Maryjane Lacoste, Jhpiego country director for Tanzania, on training that saves lives / Gazette
Easing aging
Published Feb 2013
Johns Hopkins earns top marks for HR program / Gazette
Former soldier gets double arm transplant
Published Jan 29, 2013
Team of Johns Hopkins transplant experts performed surgery for man who lost all four limbs while serving in Iraq / The Washington Post
Food ads: high on taste, low on nutrition
Published Jan 28, 2013
Study reveals that magazine ads geared toward parents promise taste, convenience, but deliver poor nutrition / Bloomberg School of Public Health
Using Twitter to track the flu
Published Jan 24, 2013
Researchers find a better way to screen the tweets
Hearing loss and brain function
Published Jan 23, 2013
Johns Hopkins hearing experts have found that older adults with hearing loss are more likely to develop cognitive problems than those with normal hearing / Johns Hopkins Medicine
End the 'doc fix' charade
Published Jan 23, 2013
James Burdick of the School of Medicine urges Congress to stop perpetuating a dysfunctional system / The Baltimore Sun
Study: how genes cause illness
Published Jan 22, 2013
Researchers find that "tagged" DNA sequences may predict risk for rheumatoid arthritis and other noninfectious diseases / The New York Times
Guided Care is better care
Published Jan 18, 2013
Researchers have found that patients who receive Guided Care, a comprehensive form of primary care for chronically ill older adults, rate the quality of their care higher than patients who receive regular primary care / Bloomberg School of Public Health
Are all calories equal?
Published Jan 18, 2013
Ruth Faden, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, argues that a new Coke ad is misleading and unethical / theatlantic.com