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In the late 18th century, Napoleon recognized a German physicist by the name of Ernst Chladni. Chladni had made a noteworthy observation.
Every December, the Nobel committee presents prizes to the top researchers in their field.
A study released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) last year showed a significant rise in the number of people who can be classified as "casual smokers."
George Boiardi was a healthy college student. He was a senior history major at Cornell University and a co-captain of the lacrosse team. However, on March 17, he was pronounced dead at Cayuga Medical Center in New York.
On March 15, The Johns Hopkins Hospital was named to a list of the top 100 performance improvement hospitals in the nation.
On Feb. 29, the amazingly warm Sunday when most Hopkins students were outside enjoying the sunshine, surgeons at The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center were doing something much different.
Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, Montego ... For the more musically inclined, these places may bring to mind a Beach Boys song. For others, they may simply conjure up images of sandy beaches, sunny days and wild nights ... perfect destinations for spring break.
You wake up on a cold December morning, and something feels not quite right. Your nose is stuffy, your throat is scratchy, your head hurts and you can barely move.
It sounds like something straight out of the future. A girl is convicted of underage drinking. The evidence that gets her sentenced in court is not a breath or urine test, but a single strand of hair.
I lose things all the time, from my dorm access card to my chemistry homework. I am constantly complaining about the vacuum in my room that I imagine sucks everything up.
It's a horror picture often alluded to in children's movies like Babe or Charlotte's Web; thousands of animals crowded inside a dirty slaughterhouse. But factory farms are more than just a scene from a movie; they are a growing reality across our country.
In the second ever issue of PLoS Biology, the new journal put together by the Public Library of Science, is an article entitled "A Gain-Field Encoding of Limb Position and Velocity in the Internal Model of Arm Dynamics." Written by a group of researchers at the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, this article marks the publication of their innovative research on the connection between the brain and motor control.
When you sit down at your computer, the first thing you do might not be to check the latest rankings of presidential candidates. However, for many thousands of Americans, the Internet had become a portal into the world of politics. Candidates such as Howard Dean have used this resource as a way to energize voters as well as a successful fundraising source.
After a journey of 25 years, the aging Voyager 1 spacecraft has been thought to have finally passed into interstellar space. According to an article in the current issue of the journal Nature, the spacecraft left our solar system for a period of six months, spanning from August 2002 to February 2003. The article was written in part by Dr. Krimigis, Dr. Decker, and Dr. Roelof of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as researchers at The University of Maryland and Bell Laboratories.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing have just published the results of a three year study on methods of lowering blood pressure in African-American men. The study was led by Martha Hill, Ph.D., R.N., dean of the School of Nursing and is published in the November issue of the American Journal of Hypertension.
We've all heard medical horror stories. Surgery patients who have operating tools sewed into them, people who have the wrong organ removed, patients given the wrong medication because a nurse misreads their chart.
This week, four Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students are headed to New York City for final judging of their entry in this year's Collegiate Inventor's Competition. Their invention, which measures electrical impulses in a person's arm muscles, is one of six projects to advance to this stage of judging.
In the Oct. 11 issue of the prominent medical journal, The Lancet, Johns Hopkins researchers announced the results of a new study regarding the transmission of HIV from mothers to children.
With every technology boom also comes a plethora of ways that technology can be misused. Security breaches, tampering with records and viruses spread over the internet are only a few examples of these.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have just released a new computer program which will help states handle Medicaid expenses efficiently. The software aids State Medicaid Agencies in setting rates and profiling their patients.