One Down, Many to Go: Remembering My Mom One Stitch at a Time
Medical student Palak Patel remembers her mother’s mastectomy as she assists on an operation for a patient with breast cancer.
Everyday Antibiotics May Reveal New Therapies to Treat Your Breast Cancer
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, a second-year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, recently spent her summer working under Richard Jones, director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program, co-director of the […]
Highlights from the 2015 American Society of Human Genetics Conference
As the American Society of Human Genetics concluded its 65th annual meeting in Baltimore, the air around the Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine still seems to buzz with the excitement of it all. Among the plethora of innovative research and technologies presented, the society devoted some focus to those entities whose existence is […]