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Providing Help for Latina Mothers at Risk for Post-Partum Depression

A Johns Hopkins study shows that virtual group meetings held in partnership with early childhood learning centers offer participants valuable support and social connection.

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Understanding How Cannabis Use Affects Brain Development and Mental Health

Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Christopher Hammond seeks to address risks to adolescents that accompany legalizing the drug.

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Hospital Staff Not Taught to Manage Patient Agitation

Johns Hopkins study shows a lack of training puts physicians, nurses and technicians at risk for workplace injury.

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A More Precise Framework for Understanding and Treating Alzheimer’s Symptoms

A Johns Hopkins team led by Milap Nowrangi considers the biological causes of neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with Alzheimer’s disease

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New Johns Hopkins Study Examines Evolution of How COVID Variants Infect the Nasal Passages

Although loss of the sense of smell was widely seen in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 original strains through the subsequent delta strains, the more recent omicron variants much less frequently cause loss of smell function. 

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Muaz Alrazzak, M.D., Joins Hematology-Oncology Team

Muaz Alrazzak, M.D., who specializes in pediatric hematology and oncology, joined the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, in March.

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Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy for Spastic Diplegia: One Patient’s Story

Lauren and Brandon had been hearing about a unique surgical procedure called selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR). It involves cutting portions of the sensory nerves that supply sensation information from the legs to reduce overactive spinal reflexes.

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Recent Johns Hopkins Study Describes Top Factors Associated with Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways

When done successfully, implementing enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) can be an effective way to improve surgical patients’ clinical outcomes and experience.

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Johns Hopkins Children's Center Study Shows Negative Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth Minority Mental Health

Recent historical, political and public health events, most notably the COVID-19 pandemic, have collectively contributed to increased stress and mental health challenges among many groups of people — including adolescents in racial and ethnic minorities.

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Edward Tanner Expands Minimally Invasive Options for Gynecologic Surgery at Sibley

Edward Tanner is director of Johns Hopkins women’s health in the National Capital Region.

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Expanding Accessibility in Neuro-Ophthalmology Care

Faced with a worldwide shortage of neuro-ophthalmologists, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, pioneered an approach to ensure that every patient who needs it can be evaluated immediately.

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Leading the AI Ophthalmology Revolution

While artificial intelligence suddenly seems to be everywhere, physician-scientists at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, have been developing and evaluating AI tools for years.

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Deciphering the Complexities of a Rare Disease

Birdshot, as it is familiarly known, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.

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New Advanced Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Treatments Provide Individualized Care

Treatments include HDR brachytherapy, radiopharmaceutical treatment, proton therapy and more.

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Research Programs Boost Work of Early-Career Faculty

Gyn/Ob career development programs help young faculty members conduct advanced research.

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Paving a Path for Treating Pediatric Moyamoya

Johns Hopkins neurologist Lisa Sun tackles knowledge gaps in research on the rare blood vessel disorder.

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Preventing Pancreatitis After ERCP

Johns Hopkins physician-researchers aim to make a key procedure safer.

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Caring for Patients with Arterial Disease

Vascular surgeon Rebecca Marmor partners with referring physicians to help patients address peripheral arterial disease, aortic aneurysms, carotid disease and dialysis access.

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Preserving Laryngeal Structure and Function for Patients with Cancer

Johns Hopkins experts offer innovative surgical techniques that may lessen the damaging impact on the voices of patients with laryngeal cancer.

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New Rehab Program May Help Patients Go Home Faster After Surgery

Johns Hopkins experts have developed the pilot initiative Rehab2Home. Their aim: to return patients home after hospitalization rather than to another facility for care.

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Creative Approaches for Patients with Congenital Heart Disease and Electrical Heart Complications

Konstantinos Aronis shares insight into how he and his team tailor care for this unique set of patients.

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Improving Access to Clozapine for Patients with Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia

Clozapine is the treatment of choice for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, and yet it is highly underutilized in the United States.

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Using AI to Enhance Lateral Skull Base Surgery

Johns Hopkins surgeon-scientist Francis Creighton is leading research to develop cooperative robots that can help surgeons avoid critical structures.

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Neurologists Test App Developed at Johns Hopkins to Diagnose Stroke

Researchers study whether smartphone app can identify stroke using an approach and technological principles pioneered at the institution.

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New Johns Hopkins Study Highlights Connections Between Multiple Sensory Defects, Health Span and Life Span in Older Adults

A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study, published Jan. 18 in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, suggests that the number and severity of sensory impairments are strongly tied to decreased physical functioning and increased mortality risk.

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Preclinical Studies Led By Johns Hopkins Medicine Researchers Advance Potential New Target to Treat HIV Infection

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institutes of Health, report that two new studies in mice with a humanized immune system and human cell lines have identified an enzyme that plays ...

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Liquid Biopsy Predicts Early Disease Progression, Potential Survival in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer

A novel, automated liquid biopsy test in development by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center can be used to predict early disease progression and potential survival among patients with metastatic breast cancer in as little ...

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Community Cancer Care Linked with Poorer Outcomes for Some HeadNeck Cancers

Care for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx (an area in back of the throat) is shifting toward community cancer centers, but patients treated in this setting may be less likely to survive, ...

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Kidney Cell Atlas Charts Path to Better Treatments

When the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases published the most comprehensive atlas of the human kidney in summer 2023, it included information contributed by the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of ...

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Fast Facts About Precision Medicine: How Do Patients Recover Following Stroke?

Wearable activity trackers could provide clinicians with clues to how survivors of stroke are faring during their recovery.

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Study Finds AI–Driven Eye Exams Increase Screening Rates for Youth with Diabetes

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center investigators say AI-driven cameras that take images of the back of the eye and require no eye drops can be used to close care gaps.

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HCC Researchers Outline Guidance for Treating Youth with Type 2 Diabetes

According to researchers, the number of children with type 2 diabetes has increased worldwide, and experts call it a growing epidemic.

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Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics Researchers Uncovering Demographic TAA Disparities

Compared to the gold standard of ankle arthrodesis for restoring function for patients with symptomatic arthrosis, deformity or severe instability of the tibiotalar joint, total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) has reemerged with a several of ...

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Performing a Minimally Invasive Approach for Spinal Tumor Resection

Johns Hopkins neurosurgeons eschew open surgery to help a patient with metastatic breast cancer quickly return to her active lifestyle.

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Cardiac Surgery Team Doubles Size in Two Years

A host of gifted cardiac surgeons and a Johns Hopkins luminary join the division. The team’s clinicians see among the highest volume of patients in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic region.

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Growing Influence

Jennifer Mayer grew up around Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She was a little girl in the early 1970s when her father — Allen Root, M.D. — moved his family from Philadelphia to St. Petersburg, Florida, to start an endocrinology ...

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Expanding Care for Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Pediatric gastroenterologist Maria Oliva-Hemker, vice dean for faculty and director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, knows that financial support that comes at key moments can be crucial for launching ...

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Johns Hopkins Surgeon at Sibley Provides Robotic Repairs for Large and Complex Hernias

Surgeon Andrew Jung has advanced training in minimally invasive and robotic procedures.

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Angel Hernandez Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s as Chief of Pediatric Neurology

Angel Hernandez, M.D., joined Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in January 2024 as a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist and chief of pediatric neurology at the St. Petersburg, Florida, hospital.

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Abdullah AlQahtani, M.D., M.P.H.

Abdullah AlQahtani specializes in inherited and noninherited neuromuscular neurological diseases.

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Pediatric Brain Cancer: Julian’s Story

When 3-week-old Julian Letchworth arrived at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center’s emergency department on a Saturday in August, his prognosis was beyond dire. Emergency brain surgery might save his life — temporarily — if he survived the procedure.

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Recent Grants in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Network

Recent Grants in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Network.

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Moving Our Mission Forward

Andrew Satin, director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, discusses the department’s new fertility center, research, training and more.

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Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Team Values Flight Plan

“The flight plan provides a great objective visual to the hospital course, one removed from the day-to-day management,” says cardiac intensivist Arabela Stock, M.D., co-director of patient safety and quality in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s ...

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How PIN Turns to Prostate Cancer

If you’ve had a prostate biopsy, you may have seen the words “prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN)” on the pathology report. What is it? Based on years of study, much of it led by Brady scientists, “we recognize PIN as a warning sign ...

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Déjà Vu: Transforming How Surgery is Practiced and Performed

On his computer screen, urologist Ahmed Ghazi, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., is showing a strange video: a radical prostatectomy in double vision. The screen is split, and the operation seems to be shown in duplicate. On both sides of the screen, the ...

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Sally Azer Joins Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute

Sally Azer, M.D., specializes in pediatric hematology and oncology, caring for hospitalized patients at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Maha Al-Ghafry Joins Hematology Team

Maha Al-Ghafry, M.D., is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, practicing pediatric hematology at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Michael Hammer Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Neurology Team

Michael Hammer, M.D., is a pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

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Peter Huszar Rejoins Johns Hopkins All Children’s

Peter Huszar, M.D., specializes in care for hospitalized pediatric neurology patients in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Institute for Brain Protection Sciences in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Focal Therapy: Killing the Cancer, Not the Prostate

Focal therapy, although not the standard of care, is emerging as a way to treat localized prostate cancer in carefully selected patients. The Brady is proud that one of the leaders in this field, urologist Arvin K. George, M.B.B.Ch., is ...

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Who Will Benefit from Immunotherapy for Metastatic ccRCC?

Important clues can be found in routine pathology slides. Immunotherapy drugs called “checkpoint inhibitors” have revolutionized treatment for patients with metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common type of kidney cancer.

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What do MicroRNAs Have to Do with Inherited Prostate Cancer?

The genes linked to prostate cancer – that we know of — are just the tip of the iceberg. What about the other 98 percent of the genome?

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Urine “Liquid Biopsies” for Bladder Cancer

“Our current methods to detect the presence of bladder and upper tract urothelial cancers are suboptimal,” says David McConkey, Ph.D., Director of the Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute.

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Treating Kidney Cancers with Proton Therapy

There is no one-size-fits-all therapy for localized kidney cancer. For example, surgery, the mainstay of treatment, is not an option for patients who have other serious medical conditions or complicated tumor presentations.

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Treating High-Risk Kidney Cancer Before it Spreads

Is it a question of timing? Should we try the drug even earlier? “When cancer is localized within the kidney, nephrectomy (kidney removal) is the treatment of choice,” says Mohamad Allaf, M.D.

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Super-sized, Chemo-Resistant Cancer Cells

Some cancer cells basically thumb their nose at treatment. Other cells may succumb, but not these hardy survivors.

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Salvage Radiation after Prostatectomy: Watch the PSA!

To minimize risk of metastases, treat with salvage radiation while PSA is below 0.5. If PSA becomes detectable and starts to rise after prostatectomy, salvage radiation can still cure the cancer.

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Patients Talked; We Listened, Studied, and Came Up with a Plan to Make it Better. Now We Want to Test it.

Every facet of ERAS targets factors of delayed recovery, such as slow return of bowel and urinary function, immobility, and pain.

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New Clues to Treating Two Forms of Bladder Cancer

Small cell/neuroendocrine bladder cancers (SCBCs) are rare, highly aggressive, and difficult to treat. But in a recent study, published in European Urology, Brady scientist Woonyoung Choi, Ph.D., and colleagues have gained insights that ...

Mental Health Program in Middle Schools

Goal of ADAP Jr. High is to help young people recognize and manage anxiety.

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Advocacy for Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs in Maryland

Maryland is one of three states in the country that doesn’t have assisted outpatient (AOT) treatment programs which involve court-ordered mental health treatment for individuals who have severe mental illness and a history of noncompliance with therapy.

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Excess Thyroid Hormone Levels Associated with Higher Risk of Cognitive Disorders Among Older Adults

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study has linked thyrotoxicosis to an increased risk of cognitive disorders among older adults. The researchers are encouraging clinicians to practice caution when prescribing thyroid hormone treatment for people over age 65.

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Brain Scans of Former NFL Athletes Show a Repair Protein in Place Long After Initial Injury

New study from Hopkins Medicine shows TBI protein (TSPO) present in the brain long after initial injury.

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Narrowing the Racial Gap in Prostate Cancer

“Despite advances in early detection, prevention, and treatment, Black men in the U.S. remain disproportionately affected by prostate cancer,” says urologist Arthur Burnett, M.D., the Patrick C. Walsh Professor of Urology.

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Kidney Cancer and Race

Why are Black patients more likely than White patients to die of kidney cancer? Nirmish Singla, M.D., M.Sc., Director of the Kidney Cancer Program, is leading research efforts to find out more.

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Inherited Prostate Cancer in Black Men

Previously in Discovery, we reported that the first-known prostate-specific cancer susceptibility gene, HOXB13, identified in 2012 by Brady scientist William Isaacs, Ph.D., and colleagues – had thrown researchers a curve ball: For a decade, ...

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Awarded 1.7 Million to Implement Use of Diabetes Navigator in Underserved Communities

In an effort to improve diabetes care and mitigate disparities in diabetes-related outcomes, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers were awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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Inflammation, Club Cells, and Prostate Cancer

What’s wrong with inflammation? Sometimes, it is good. For example, when you skin your knee, inflammation protects your body from bacteria and germs.

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In-Depth Study of ccRCC Yields New Insights

In a series of elegant studies, pathology scientists Hui Zhang, Ph.D., M.S., and T. Mamie Lih, Ph.D., together with investigators from the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), have discovered several new ways of characterizing ...

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Improving Quality of Life After Radical Cystectomy

Do all those organs need to come out? Radical cystectomy is a tough operation. It’s not just removal of the bladder: in men, it includes removing the prostate and seminal vesicles, and in women, it includes removing the anterior vaginal ...

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Johns Hopkins Research Suggests New Promise for Patients with ALS

Neurologist Nathan Crone and colleagues demonstrate the potential of implanted brain-computer interfaces to overcome speech and movement impairments for people with the condition.

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It’s Personal for These Diabetes Nurse Educators

For young patients who have diabetes, managing the disease as part of their daily lives is an all-encompassing challenge, says Maggie West, lead nurse and a pediatric diabetes nurse educator with the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Diabetes Center ...

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Meeting Exstrophy with Excellence

Bubbly, apple-cheeked Camden Mills, who turned 1 on Oct. 17, 2023, has graced his parents, Molly and David, with all of the delightful baby milestones: his first tooth, his first words, learning to roll over, to sit up and crawl.

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AI and Your Prostate Cells on a Slide

Nobody has a crystal ball that will accurately predict exactly what someone’s prostate cancer will do – but Hopkins pathologists are working on it.

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Active Surveillance in Small Kidney Cancers

In years past, kidney cancer was treated immediately after it was detected. But now we know that not all kidney cancer needs to be treated right away; some small renal masses (SRM; less than 4 cm) may never need treatment.

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A Passion for Advocacy

The AUA's selection committee was impressed with Galansky's "unmatched understanding of public policy."

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Comprehensive Care for Patients with Limb Loss

Johns Hopkins offers multidisciplinary approaches for people with limb loss and limb difference. Avenues of care include rehabilitation, surgery, anaplastology and much more.

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'Game-Changer’ Intervention for Ovarian Cancer Prevention

Gynecologic oncologist Rebecca Stone and colleagues at Johns Hopkins are leading the way in salpingectomy — a quick, low-risk surgical intervention that can significantly reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.

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A Fortunate Misdiagnosis

More than 60 years ago, a beautiful friendship began with a life-changing second opinion.

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“Bipolar” Androgen Therapy (BAT) Trials Under Way

Several years ago, Samuel Denmeade, M.D., Director of the Division of Genitourinary Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and colleagues came up with a new concept for treating advanced prostate cancer that seemed ...

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With AI Tool, Johns Hopkins Clinician Boosts Diabetic Retinopathy Screening to 95% Among Pediatric Patients

In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved IDx-DR as the first autonomous artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic tool for use in any field of medicine.

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Who Can Safely Remain on Active Surveillance?

New studies provide guidance.

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Looking for Bad Genes

Scrutinizing 25,000 genes in 8,000 men with prostate cancer.

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Lowering the Risk of Recurrent Prostate Cancer

Exciting results from a Hopkins-led study have catapulted a lowly immune system protein into the spotlight as a promising new target for prostate cancer immunotherapy.

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Joshua Cousin Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Epilepsy Team

Joshua Cousin, M.D., specializes pediatric neurology and epilepsy at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and sees patients at the hospital’s main campus in St. Petersburg, Florida

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Suicide Prevention in Social Media: Creating Safe Spaces for Children and Adolescents

Social media provides an opportunity to identify mental health concerns or crises in children and adolescents. What can be done to protect youth and help create safe spaces for connection and education?

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Diverse Participation Is Critical Part of Major Bipolar Disorder Study

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Erica Richards will lead a team of recruiters to enroll people who are frequently left out of research.

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Maher Abadeer Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Maher Abadeer, M.D., is a pediatric cardiologist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Brandi Braud Scully Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Brandi Braud Scully, M.D., M.S., is an assistant professor of surgery in the division of pediatric cardiac surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and practices in the Heart Institute at Johns Hopkins All Children’s ...

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Alyson Trillo Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Alyson Trillo, D.O., is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist specializing in benign hematology in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute In St. Petersburg, Florida. She joined the hospital staff in 2023.

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Minelys M. Alicea Marrero Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Minelys M. Alicea Marrero, M.D., is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist specializing in blood and marrow transplants at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. She joined the hospital staff in 2023.

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Focusing in on Medulloblastoma

Clinicians and scientists at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital collaborated to identify the oncogene that is responsible for causing group three medulloblastomas in children.

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Active Care Model Predicts Disease Course for Prostate Cancers

For many men, prostate cancers are extremely slow-growing — so much so that they often can be monitored periodically through blood tests, biopsies and MRI without necessarily needing treatment. Johns Hopkins experts have directed an extensive active ...

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Personalizing Care for Scleroderma, an Autoimmune Disease

The autoimmune disease scleroderma — which involves hardening of the skin — can affect multiple organs, from the heart to the lungs to the gastrointestinal tract and more. Rheumatologists who treat patients with the condition have to factor ...

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Brain-Computer Interface Restores Control of Home Devices for Johns Hopkins Patient with ALS

A BCI decodes neural signals acquired from electrodes placed on the surface of brain areas responsible for speech and upper limb function. Participant then navigates options on a communication board using a set of six navigational commands ...

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Study Finds Female Babies with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Have Slightly Higher Risk of Death

A Johns Hopkins Children Center study using medical records from an international registry concludes that female babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) are slightly more likely to die within 30 to 60 days of birth than male ...

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Ketogenic Diet Becomes Life-saving Treatment for 4-Year-Old Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Patient with Epilepsy, Doctors Say

Amelia Lavenski is a 4-year-old girl from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who has a bright personality and loves laughing and Mickey Mouse.

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A ‘Revolution’ in Robot-Assisted Surgery for Pediatric Patients at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

Pediatric surgeon Alejandro Garcia remembers a teenage patient who was having increasing problems with myasthenia gravis.

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Comprehensive Care for Patients With Spinal Cord Injury and Disease

The International Center for Spinal Cord Injury provides a rare combination of programs and approaches to mitigate the consequences of paralysis and optimize function.