According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion adults in the world are overweight, making them candidates for chronic disease and disability. Many of these people have one thing in common: They unconsciously start eating sweet and high-calorie foods to deal with stress and anxiety. And though later detriments to health may ultimately […]
New Cancer Documentary Sheds Light on Treatment Advances, Patient Lives
Posted by Paul Sirajuddin | Events and Happenings“Her name was Melissa,” Dr. Bert Vogelstein recounts to the packed auditorium. He’s talking about his first patient as a pediatric resident at Johns Hopkins nearly 40 years ago. “I still remember to this day her parents asking me why this happened to their daughter.” Melissa was a young child who was diagnosed with acute […]
Mar 30, 2015
Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?
Posted by Shannen Cravens | A Day in the LifeDoes anyone remember being asked if they were left-brained or right-brained? That’s how I recall my friends and I attempting to find our academic niche. We had two choices: We were either good at solving equations or writing essays. That may have seemed true when we were young, but as professionals we now know that […]
Mar 27, 2015
Hopkins MD/PhD student is a Kut above the rest
Posted by Kirstie Keller | Perspectives in ResearchWhile most graduate students are worried about their next exam or an upcoming experiment, Carmen Kut, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is quietly immersed in her latest endeavors to create meaningful medical products for those in need. Since her time as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins […]
Mar 25, 2015
Life of Young Physician and Rising ‘Star’ Celebrated at Memorial
Posted by Ryan Lang | Events and HappeningsIn January, a week prior to the holiday celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the Johns Hopkins community gathered to celebrate the life of Idoreyin P. Montague, an accomplished second-year combined internal medicine and pediatrics resident physician. Montague, who was 30 years old, was killed in a car accident on Dec. 24. Hundreds […]
Mar 23, 2015
Class of 2015: Four Years a Family
Posted by Arielle Medford | A Day in the Life, Events and HappeningsAn earthquake shook Baltimore our first day of anatomy. Days later, a hurricane moved through. That was our first week of medical school, and Mother Nature welcomed us in perfect allegory. Almost four years later, we’ve arrived at the 2015 Match Day. Friday, more than 26,000 medical students learn where they will be training for the […]
Mar 18, 2015
To Reduce Youth Violence, Prescribe a Summer Job
Posted by Benjamin Oldfield | Perspectives in ResearchTroubling tales of race, poverty and violence seem to span the contours of today’s media. However, University of Pennsylvania criminologist Sara Heller’s research1, published last month in Science, contributes a hopeful voice to the dialogue. In a randomized controlled trial of disadvantaged youth in Chicago, her study shows a significant link between joblessness and youth […]
Mar 16, 2015
Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer via MicroRNAs
Posted by Xuan Pham | Perspectives in ResearchSince their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, microRNAs have been implicated in a variety of human conditions. Most recently, however, microRNAs are being scrutinized under a different light: not as causative agents in human diseases, but rather as potential guides for cancer detection. The microRNA is a short nucleotide sequence, usually 21 to […]
Mar 16, 2015
Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System
Posted by Sylvia Owusu-Ansah | A Day in the LifeImagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by her mother. She is visibly angry upon arrival, and her mother looks tired and distressed. When you enter the room, the young girl begins the interaction with foul language. She […]
Mar 13, 2015
With Disaster Comes Hope
Posted by Xin Liu | A Day in the Life, Perspectives in ResearchOn the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a magnitude-8 earthquake hit Sichuan province, a mountainous region in western China. Official figures stated that 69,197 were confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless,though the number could have been as high as […]
Mar 5, 2015