Can Tasty Food Reduce Stress?
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… Read More »Can Tasty Food Reduce Stress?
New Cancer Documentary Sheds Light on Treatment Advances, Patient Lives
“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… Read More »New Cancer Documentary Sheds Light on Treatment Advances, Patient Lives
Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?
Does 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.… Read More »Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?
Hopkins MD/PhD student is a Kut above the rest
While 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… Read More »Hopkins MD/PhD student is a Kut above the rest
Life of Young Physician and Rising ‘Star’ Celebrated at Memorial
In January, a week prior to the holiday celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the Johns Hopkins community gathered to celebrate the life… Read More »Life of Young Physician and Rising ‘Star’ Celebrated at Memorial
Class of 2015: Four Years a Family
An earthquake shook Baltimore our first day of anatomy. Days later, a hurricane moved through. That was our first week of medical school, and Mother… Read More »Class of 2015: Four Years a Family
To Reduce Youth Violence, Prescribe a Summer Job
Troubling 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… Read More »To Reduce Youth Violence, Prescribe a Summer Job
Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer via MicroRNAs
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, microRNAs have been implicated in a variety of human conditions. Most recently, however, microRNAs are being… Read More »Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer via MicroRNAs
Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System
Imagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by… Read More »Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System
With Disaster Comes Hope
On 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… Read More »With Disaster Comes Hope