Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Within every generation, there is a paradigm shift that has the potential to echo through all specialties of medicine. In early January 2021, Dr. Bartley… Read More »An Era of Possibilities: A Look into Xenotransplantation
Photo courtesy of the author. Second-year medical students Luke Tomasovic, left, and Thomas Su at the finish line of the 2023 IRONMAN Maryland. At the… Read More »Step by Step — What Completing an Ironman Taught Me About Medical Training
In my last blog post, I talked about ChatGPT and its potential uses in medicine. I drew on my experiences as a medical student and… Read More »ChatGPT in Medicine Part 2: Optimizing Large Language Models for Medicine
In the dynamic realm of biomedical research, the sparks of innovation often emerge from the most unexpected places. Here, where lab coats and microscopes are… Read More »From Fiction to Function: How Biomedical Innovation Thrives on Imagination
As the news continued to be consumed by the devastating wildfires that raged in Hawaii, another recent study makes this ecological catastrophe even grimmer. In… Read More »Air Pollution from Wildfires, Farms May Increase Dementia Risk
Guest blogger, Madeline Kane, is a genetic epidemiology Master of Science candidate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. If you’ve ever… Read More »Teaching Cancer Cells to Self-Sabotage
With a two-month summer break, I had the chance to close my medical school textbooks and read for leisure. While I initially experienced a Pavlovian… Read More »Building the Bridge from Medicine 2.0 to Medicine 3.0
Researching neurodegenerative diseases often feels like an unwinnable battle against biology. Despite decades of effort, we still have no means for reversing the effects of… Read More »The Virtue of Patients
The history of cannabis use likely traces back to Asia as early as 500 BC. The plant’s purpose then was medicinal, but there are reports… Read More »‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ — Well, on Marijuana at Least
This post originally appeared on Riley’s blog, uneasy-lies-the-crown.com, which features her writing and podcasts about the intersection of neuroscience and royalty. Our tale begins in… Read More »Habsburgs: All in the Family