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Brian Garibaldi and Jennifer Nuzzo
COVID-19
U.S. cases, deaths decline, but vigilance still needed
Published Oct 22, 2021 Video
531,000 cases reported this week represents a 13.2% decline from last week, marking the lowest average daily case count since late July
Psychedelic mushrooms in colorful light
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
Beth Blauer and William Moss
Coronavirus
COVID-19 this week: Booster shots and U.S. strategies
Published Oct 15, 2021 Video
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
MTA bus
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
An e-cigarette and smoke
E-cigarettes
Vaping liquids, aerosols contain thousands of unknown chemicals
Published Oct 7, 2021
Study identifies compounds undisclosed by popular brands including industrial chemicals, caffeine
Merck CEO Robert M. Davis
Health Policy Forum
Merck CEO: COVID-19 pill in the works, but vaccination remains key
Published Oct 5, 2021 Video
Health Policy Forum guest speaker Robert Davis emphasized the need to use every tool at our disposal in the fight against COVID-19
Lisa Cooper and Deidra Crews
Health equity
Two Hopkins researchers receive $20M from NIH
Published Sept 30, 2021
Lisa Cooper, Deidra Crews will lead the Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity, which will address hypertension, obesity, diabetes, heart failure, and kidney disease