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Haiwen Chen, M.D., Ph.D. and David Hale, M.D. Join Department of Neurology

Haiwen Chen, M.D., Ph.D. and David Hale, M.D. Join Department of Neurology

Haiwen Chen is a pediatric neurologist who specializes in caring for children with pediatric onset neuroinflammatory and neuroinfectious diseases and David Hale is a fellowship-trained neurologist who specializes in neurovisual and vestibular disorders.

Johns Hopkins Study Examines How Widespread Synchronization Changes in Brain May Underlie Attention and Consciousness

Johns Hopkins Study Examines How Widespread Synchronization Changes in Brain May Underlie Attention and Consciousness

Beyond identifying specific functions of individual brain regions, there has been significant interest in understanding how multiple regions interact to perform various functions. However, there are many theories but few conclusions regarding ...

Joint Preservation Techniques Learned at the Knees of Top Athletes

Joint Preservation Techniques Learned at the Knees of Top Athletes

Orthopaedic surgeon Bashir Zikria is back at Johns Hopkins after three years treating elite athletes, including the players of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in Qatar.

New Johns Hopkins Study Examines Prevalence of Epilepsy in Sexual and Gender Minorities in the U.S.

New Johns Hopkins Study Examines Prevalence of Epilepsy in Sexual and Gender Minorities in the U.S.

Recent research highlights that transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in the United States report reduced health-related quality of life compared to people who are cisgender.

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Researchers Receive Florida Grants for Cancer Inquiries

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Researchers Receive Florida Grants for Cancer Inquiries

Johns Hopkins All Children’s basic science researchers Ranjan Perera, Ph.D., and Masanobu Komatsu, Ph.D., each recently received grants from the Florida Department of Health Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program.

Jennifer Leiding, M.D., Joins Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute

Jennifer Leiding, M.D., Joins Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute

Jennifer Leiding, M.D., has joined Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, as associate director for clinical research in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and assistant director of ...

New Multidisciplinary Clinic for Patients with Neurological Cancers

New Multidisciplinary Clinic for Patients with Neurological Cancers

Johns Hopkins offers advanced approach to brain cancers in the Greater Washington Area.

Comprehensive Care for Pediatric Limb Deformity and Reconstruction

Comprehensive Care for Pediatric Limb Deformity and Reconstruction

Erin Honcharuk, a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins, is leading the way to bring the latest techniques and multidisciplinary care to patients who require limb-lengthening and deformity correction.

Meet Our Experts

Meet Our Experts

Meet Our Experts: Kailyn Frazier, M.D. and Jenny X. Chen, M.D., Ed.M.

Promising Results for Vestibular Implants in BVH

Promising Results for Vestibular Implants in BVH

Device tested at Johns Hopkins improves symptoms, quality of life for patients with bilateral vestibular hypofunction

Johns Hopkins First in Maryland to Perform DCD Heart Transplants

Johns Hopkins First in Maryland to Perform DCD Heart Transplants

Cardiothoracic surgeons performed several transplants using hearts from donation after circulatory death, the first in the state to do so.

Caring for Patients with Sinonasal Tumors

Caring for Patients with Sinonasal Tumors

Johns Hopkins is one of the highest volume centers in the country for these rare cancers.

The Quest to Determine Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

The Quest to Determine Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

Johns Hopkins researchers test biomarkers to obtain a more precise diagnosis of the neurodegenerative disease.

Research Shows Promise for Personalized Medicine in Crohn’s Disease

Research Shows Promise for Personalized Medicine in Crohn’s Disease

Recent study suggests potential new treatments for subset of patients carrying genetic mutation.

Johns Hopkins App Offers Clinicians New Tool to Combat Dizziness and Vertigo Misdiagnosis

Johns Hopkins App Offers Clinicians New Tool to Combat Dizziness and Vertigo Misdiagnosis

Each year in the United States, over 17 million patients visit clinicians for dizziness, which affects 11% of U.S. adults and 35% of adults over age 40.

Revolutionizing Regenerative Medicine

Revolutionizing Regenerative Medicine

The Johns Hopkins Translational Tissue Engineering Center (TTEC), a collaborative venture established in 2010 between the Wilmer Eye Institute and Johns Hopkins University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, is revolutionizing regenerative ...

Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Center Is the Only One of Its Kind in Maryland

Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Center Is the Only One of Its Kind in Maryland

From burn prevention to wound care and psychological treatment, the burn center team provides comprehensive care for children with burn injuries.

Individualized Gender-Affirming Voice Care

Individualized Gender-Affirming Voice Care

Multidisciplinary team works with patients to meet their voice goals through medication, surgery and voice therapy.

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: An Early Warning System for Brain Pressure Spikes in Hospitalized Patients

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: An Early Warning System for Brain Pressure Spikes in Hospitalized Patients

Millions of people are admitted to hospital intensive care units following traumatic brain injuries, strokes, brain bleeds and other conditions.

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Using Social Determinants of Health to Study Health Outcomes

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Using Social Determinants of Health to Study Health Outcomes

More and more in medicine, when considering treatment plans, clinicians are taking into account patients’ social determinants of health (SDOH) — nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes.

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Using Genomic Information to Boost Cancer Care

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Using Genomic Information to Boost Cancer Care

People with cancer undergo various types of testing during their diagnosis and treatment. It’s common, for example, for tumor tissue that was removed during a biopsy or surgery to be sent for genomic analysis — a study of the tumor’s genetic makeup.

Improving Heart Surgery with 3D Printing

Improving Heart Surgery with 3D Printing

When pediatric interventional cardiologist John Thomson was planning a recent procedure for a patient with congenital heart disease, he made use of a 3D-printed plastic model of that patient’s heart.

Major Renovation Upholds Johns Hopkins’ Status as Leader in Otolaryngology Surgical Training

Major Renovation Upholds Johns Hopkins’ Status as Leader in Otolaryngology Surgical Training

The newly named Niehaus Family Surgical Skills Laboratory allows trainees profound opportunities to refine techniques.

Pediatric Neurosurgery Research on Hydrocephalus and Chiari Malformation at Johns Hopkins

Pediatric Neurosurgery Research on Hydrocephalus and Chiari Malformation at Johns Hopkins

Ongoing studies focused on these conditions will innovate care at Johns Hopkins and beyond.

Survey Illuminates Effects of Real-World Psilocybin Use

Survey Illuminates Effects of Real-World Psilocybin Use

The largest prospective study on naturalistic psilocybin use found improvements in mental health and well-being in those who took the drug outside of clinical trial settings.

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Acquires Maternal-Fetal Medicine Practice

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Acquires Maternal-Fetal Medicine Practice

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital now provides maternal-fetal medicine services in Trinity, Florida.

Emily Boss Named Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology

Emily Boss Named Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology

Emily Boss has been appointed director of pediatric otolaryngology, effective immediately.

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Predicting Alzheimer’s Onset

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Predicting Alzheimer’s Onset

Alzheimer’s disease still has limited treatments. But being able to predict when a person with mild cognitive impairment will transition to a more serious dementia can help provide individuals and their families with a timeline and trajectory ...

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Monitoring Blood Clot Prevention

Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Monitoring Blood Clot Prevention

About 450,000 patients who are hospitalized each year in the U.S. wind up with a potentially preventable venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clot. It could result from time spent lying in a bed, surgery, or injury to a vein caused by ...

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

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.

Understanding How Cannabis Use Affects Brain Development and Mental Health

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.

Hospital Staff Not Taught to Manage Patient Agitation

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Edward Tanner Expands Minimally Invasive Options for Gynecologic Surgery at Sibley

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.

Expanding Accessibility in Neuro-Ophthalmology Care

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.

Leading the AI Ophthalmology Revolution

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.

Deciphering the Complexities of a Rare Disease

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.

New Advanced Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Treatments Provide Individualized Care

New Advanced Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Treatments Provide Individualized Care

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

Research Programs Boost Work of Early-Career Faculty

Research Programs Boost Work of Early-Career Faculty

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

Paving a Path for Treating Pediatric Moyamoya

Paving a Path for Treating Pediatric Moyamoya

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

Preventing Pancreatitis After ERCP

Preventing Pancreatitis After ERCP

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

Caring for Patients with Arterial Disease

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.

Preserving Laryngeal Structure and Function for Patients with Cancer

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.

New Rehab Program May Help Patients Go Home Faster After Surgery

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.

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

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.

Improving Access to Clozapine for Patients with Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia

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.

Using AI to Enhance Lateral Skull Base Surgery

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.

Neurologists Test App Developed at Johns Hopkins to Diagnose Stroke

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Community Cancer Care Linked with Poorer Outcomes for Some HeadNeck Cancers

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

HCC Researchers Outline Guidance for Treating Youth with Type 2 Diabetes

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.

Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics Researchers Uncovering Demographic TAA Disparities

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 ...

Performing a Minimally Invasive Approach for Spinal Tumor Resection

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.

Cardiac Surgery Team Doubles Size in Two Years

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.

Growing Influence

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 ...

Expanding Care for Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Abdullah AlQahtani specializes in inherited and noninherited neuromuscular neurological diseases.

Pediatric Brain Cancer: Julian’s Story

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.

Recent Grants in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Network

Recent Grants in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Network

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

New Study Advances Search for Accurate Blood Markers for Acute Kidney Injury

New Study Advances Search for Accurate Blood Markers for Acute Kidney Injury

Findings seen as a step toward ending need for invasive kidney biopsies to predict AKI, and to help manage and assess treatment of serious kidney inflammations.

Moving Our Mission Forward

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.

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Team Values Flight Plan

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 ...

How PIN Turns to Prostate Cancer

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 ...

Déjà Vu: Transforming How Surgery is Practiced and Performed

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 ...

Sally Azer Joins Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute

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.

Maha Al-Ghafry Joins Hematology Team

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.

Michael Hammer Joins Johns Hopkins All Children’s Neurology Team

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.

Peter Huszar Rejoins Johns Hopkins All Children’s

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.

Focal Therapy: Killing the Cancer, Not the Prostate

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 ...

Who Will Benefit from Immunotherapy for Metastatic ccRCC?

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.

What do MicroRNAs Have to Do with Inherited Prostate Cancer?

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?

Urine “Liquid Biopsies” for Bladder Cancer

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.

Treating Kidney Cancers with Proton Therapy

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.

Treating High-Risk Kidney Cancer Before it Spreads

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.

Super-sized, Chemo-Resistant Cancer Cells

Super-sized, Chemo-Resistant Cancer Cells

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

Salvage Radiation after Prostatectomy: Watch the PSA!

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.

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

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.

New Clues to Treating Two Forms of Bladder Cancer

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.

Advocacy for Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs in Maryland

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Narrowing the Racial Gap in Prostate Cancer

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.

Kidney Cancer and Race

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.

Inherited Prostate Cancer in Black Men

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, ...

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

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.

Inflammation, Club Cells, and Prostate Cancer

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.

In-Depth Study of ccRCC Yields New Insights

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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