Walking by Levering Hall on Friday, April 27, you might have been infected with the desire to stop at the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Conference in Public Health: Making Public Health Contagious. Held th...

A recent Hopkins study has found that when treating lower back and leg pain, standard steroid injections tend to outperform the emerging treatment using anti-inflammatory pain medicine injections. Lower back pain contributes a significant portion ann...

Jason Trageser, the newest faculty addition to Hopkins’ prestigious Neuroscience Program, has a lot on his plate. As a prolific researcher, ...

According to researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, injuries sustained in trauma remain the leading cause of death or disability among young people worldwide. In fact, more than 50 million people per year are injured in the United State...

In the May 2012 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Hopkins researchers led by Stephen Juraschek from the School of Medicine found another benefit of vitamin C that gives the li...

In a culture dominated by graduate level research, undergraduate Tiras Lin has been making a name for himself at Hopkins. Lin, who is currently a junior, began doing research his freshman year with ...

Recently, a study conducted by the Hopkins Children’s Center and the All Children’s Hospital in Florida found that parents misunderstand the risk factors involved with the onset of early-childhood obesity. The study showed that though parents appreciat...

Originally published on April 19th   In the world of the dung beetle, eating and rolling in poop is fun. Dung beetles are classified according to how they interact with manure: rollers mold d...

Originally published on April 19th The unprecedented disappearance of honeybees has been big news for the last six years. Since bees are crucial pollinators for agriculture, their unexpe...

Originally published on April 19th Imagine a three-year-old with toys. Now picture a seven-year-old in class. Whether it’s the senseless handling of toys or the inability to stay quiet, there ...

Originally published on April 19th   A study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens by Scott G. Kitchen, an assistant professor of medici...

Originally published on April 19th In trying to improve treatment options, developers of cancer therapies encounter hurdles such as making drugs highly specific and also delivering them to ca...

Originally published on April 19th Scientists at the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believe they have discovered the cause of massive black holes that exist a...

Originally published on April 19th Pancreatic cancer is currently the fourth most common fatal cancer in the world, and unfortunately it often has a poor prognosis as well. In fact, it is diag...

Originally published on April 5th   MultiDrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs]]> Fri, 4 May 2012 1.2868874 Science & Technology 5th   MultiDrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs MELANIE HSU Science & Technology http://www.jhunewsletter.com/science-technology/bigger-brain-size-bigger-friend-circle-1.2868873 ERICK SUN
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Originally published on April 5th   Ever since the discovery of “Lucy,” the partial skeleton of the potential human ancestral species Australopithecus ]]> Fri, 4 May 2012 1.2868873 Science & Technology 5th   Ever since the discovery of “Lucy,” the partial skeleton of the potential human ancestral species Australopithecus ERICK SUN Science & Technology http://www.jhunewsletter.com/science-technology/how-hypothermia-affects-mammalian-brains-1.2868861 VIVEK SINANAN
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Originally published on April 5th Jai Madhock and his colleagues at the Hopkins School of Medicine have taken the first step in determini...

Originally published on April 5th One day, technology may allow human beings to possess some of the same abilities as Superman. Ramesh ]]> Fri, 4 May 2012 1.2868860 Science & Technology 5th One day, technology may allow human beings to possess some of the same abilities as Superman. Ramesh CATIE PAUL Science & Technology http://www.jhunewsletter.com/science-technology/study-finds-reduced-vaccine-efficacy-1.2868865 RACHEL WITKIN
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Originally published on April 5th Without the aid of vaccines, humans would still have an extremely high risk of dying from diseases such as smallpox or diphtheria. When Edward ]]> Fri, 4 May 2012 1.2868865 Science & Technology 5th Without the aid of vaccines, humans would still have an extremely high risk of dying from diseases such as smallpox or diphtheria. When Edward RACHEL WITKIN Science & Technology http://www.jhunewsletter.com/science-technology/possible-water-conduit-found-beneath-earth-1.2868864 ANNE MCGOVERN
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Originally published on April 5th For years, scientists have speculated about the process that moves water from the Earth’s crust to its interior at the site of 1.2868864 Science & Technology 5th For years, scientists have speculated about the process that moves water from the Earth’s crust to its interior at the site of ANNE MCGOVERN Science & Technology