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Health

A child's arm with a bandaid after receiving a vaccine

Q+A

COVID-19 vaccines for kids

Published Oct 26, 2021

Johns Hopkins public health experts weigh in on the safety and efficacy of shots for school-age children

COVID-19

U.S. cases, deaths decline, but vigilance still needed

Published Oct 22, 2021

531,000 cases reported this week represents a 13.2% decline from last week, marking the lowest average daily case count since late July

Psychedelics

Hopkins gets first NIH grant in 50 years for psychedelic treatment research

Published Oct 20, 2021

The nearly $4 million NIH grant will fund a multisite study of the effects of "magic mushrooms" and talk therapy on quitting smoking

Coronavirus

COVID-19 this week: Booster shots and U.S. strategies

Published Oct 15, 2021

Johns Hopkins experts Beth Blauer and William Moss discuss booster shots, global vaccine supply strategies, data collection issues

Jan McDonnell, Wilmer Director Peter J. McDonnell, Wilmer Board of Governors’ Chair Sanford Greenberg, Sue Greenberg and Dean of the Medical Faculty/CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Paul B. Rothman

Wilmer Eye Institute establishes the Sanford and Susan Greenberg Center to End Blindness

Published Oct 14, 2021

The new center will initially create four professorships for young scientists, providing a stable source of funding to cover their salaries and many other expenses for up to seven years to get their careers—and potentially transformative research—off the ground.

T-cells attacking tumor cells, a process facilitated by immunotherapy

Cancer research

Pioneering method examines how immunotherapy changes tumors

Published Oct 13, 2021

The non-invasive technique using an optical probe provides early signs of how a tumor is responding to treatment

American Indian and Alaska Native COVID-19 data

Data visualization

COVID-19's disproportionate impact on American Indian, Alaska Native tribes

Published Oct 11, 2021

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, Center for American Indian Health launch visualization of pandemic spread within Tribal Nations

Public Health

Stark transit inequity in Baltimore

Published Oct 7, 2021

Low-income people of color make up the majority of the city's transit users, and they are more likely to live near high-traffic roadways or heavily trafficked industrial areas, BSPH study finds