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Health

Economics

Substance abuse or self-medication?

Published Dec 18, 2018

Study links availability of improved antidepressants to decline in heavy drug and alcohol use

Nursing

Aging-in-place program expanding

Published Dec 13, 2018

Nearly $3M grant in support of School of Nursing's CAPABLE program could help millions of lower-income older adults age safely in their own homes

Pioneering immunologist joins Hopkins faculty

Published Dec 12, 2018

Nilabh Shastri becomes university's 38th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor after spending past 30 years pursuing immune surveillance research at UC Berkeley

Public health

Deliberately buggy code

Published Winter 2018

With the release of a mosquito emoji, public health organizations gain a valuable tool in the fight against Zika / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Illustration of a vaccine bottle attacked by mouse cursors

Public health

Searching for a vaccine against mistrust

Published Winter 2018

Outbreaks of once-controlled diseases such as measles are rising around the world. A look at the misinformation behind the growing anti-vax movement. / Johns Hopkins Magazine