Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
New therapies to treat metastatic breast cancer may lie within one of the most commonly used agents in health care across the world: antibiotics. Sonal Chaudhari,… Read More »Everyday Antibiotics May Reveal New Therapies to Treat Your Breast Cancer
In the midst of the political saga that is the ongoing debate over the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), news broke that Sen.… Read More »McCain and Brain Cancer: What’s in Store for Glioblastoma Treatment?
Long before we see or taste food, what strikes us most is its aroma wafting through the air. While eating, what we perceive as taste… Read More »Does My Sense of Smell Make Me Look Fat?
Do you blog? Journal? Write in your spare time? Are you interested in pursuing communications at any level in parallel with your professional training? We need you!… Read More »Do You Want to Write for Us?
As a researcher in a muscle biology and regeneration lab, it’s disturbing to picture myself eating the tiny pieces of muscle I grow in petri… Read More »Would You Eat Lab-Made Meat?
Epidemic. We typically associate this word with infectious disease outbreaks, often outside of the United States. But right here in the U.S., we are in… Read More »Opioids: A Different Kind of Epidemic
Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of treatment for several types of cancers, and pembrolizumab, a well-known humanized antibody against the checkpoint inhibitor… Read More »First Approval of Cancer Immunotherapy Based on Genetic Marker
Is parabiosis the new fountain of youth? Parabiosis, meaning “living beside,” is a 150-year-old surgical technique that unites the blood vessels of two living animals.… Read More »Human Cord Blood Improves Memory in Old Mice – Surge of Interest in the “Fountain of Youth”
We’re all familiar with the flu. Most consider it a pesky inconvenience or perhaps a good reason to miss work to stay home and watch… Read More »Predicting the Path of the Next Flu Pandemic
It’s funny to note that many medical conditions are described using food analogies. For example, boxers are often diagnosed with “cauliflower ear”, a condition where… Read More »Cellulite: Who, Why, and What Can Be Done