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(11/05/09 5:00am)
Since the early 1960s, a bacteria called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has raised public health concerns in hospitals across the U.S. These bacteria can cause serious infections in patients with already weakened immune systems: It is estimated that 18,000 people die every year from MRSA-acquired infections.
(10/14/09 5:00am)
In a single recent episode of House, M.D., a team of doctors breaks into a patient's home, runs a few dozen thousand-dollar tests, accuses a patient of sexual misconduct and administers a risky drug to a patient without consent.
(10/01/09 5:00am)
The creator of the world's most popular and controversial traveling attraction is at it again. Gunther von Hagens, whose "Body Worlds" exhibit has received more than 28 million visitors, recently opened a show in Berlin that features dead embryos, corpses of children in various stages of development and a pair of adult corpses copulating.
(09/19/09 5:00am)
Kids Playing Chicken On Freeways Get Smashed. King Phil Cleans Octopi For Gene Simmons. Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Surfaces.
(04/22/09 5:00am)
Females are born with all the eggs they will ever have: You learned this in middle school biology, again in high school and maybe even one more time at Hopkins.
(04/15/09 5:00am)
Do you have trouble studying if you're not in your favorite, window-facing armchair on M level? Do you prefer to work on lab reports in a D-level cubicle but like to study Spanish at Starbucks?
(04/01/09 5:00am)
When you note on a medical history that you've smoked a pack a day for three years, how does your doctor use this knowledge to help him reach a diagnosis?
(03/25/09 5:00am)
When it comes to discussing our intestines, renowned author John Updike summed up our sentiments perfectly: "Talk about intimacy! I'd almost rather not." But with almost 150,000 new cases of colorectal cancer last year alone, we can no longer afford to avoid the conversation.
(02/25/09 5:00am)
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, a NFL quarterback could scan the field, find an open man and throw for a 50-yard touchdown. A mother at a supermarket could choose Knott's strawberry jam over a jar of Smucker's. A player on Deal or No Deal could risk it all on suitcase number five.
(02/11/09 5:00am)
When doctors need to administer an early-detection diabetes test, they have only a few options.
(01/29/09 5:00am)
During a typical Metallica concert, your ears take in about 100 decibels of sound - more if you forget your earplugs. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association labels sounds louder than 80 decibels - that's about three times the sound intensity you might hear during a typical night on the library's M level - "potentially hazardous."
(11/12/08 5:00am)
It is commonly believed that the brain is relatively quiet during sleep. Neuroscientists have thought for years that only a few limited areas of the brain are active, particular to the parts of the brain that are responsible for vision.
(11/05/08 5:00am)
When health organizations must treat a widespread endemic illness in a short period of time, whom should they choose to help first? Medical groups often start by identifying the population subset most susceptible to infection. An increased risk of disease is often due to environmental factors - for example, a group of families that bathe in unclean water - but can also be influenced by a person's genes.
(10/15/08 5:00am)
Say you're at a frat party, and you begin chatting up a desirable guy or girl. How do you focus your attention on this person without becoming distracted by the loud music and conversation around you?
(10/01/08 5:00am)
Scientists at the Hopkins Medical School are one step closer to finding a less invasive alternative to bariatric surgery. Earlier this month, Aravind Arepally and his colleagues successfully suppressed the production of the hunger-inducing hormone, ghrelin, in pigs by damaging the main vessel that carries blood to the top of the stomach, where ghrelin is produced.