Everyone loves a good recycling life hack — whether it’s turning broken crayons into candles, inverting a two-liter soda bottle to make a bird feeder or refashioning a milk jug to make a Stormtrooper helmet. At Johns Hopkins, our investigators are hacking health by finding new uses for old and often-forgotten drugs. Their workspace includes […]
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Forging the Front Line of Research and Discovery
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Collaboration, Latin America, Middle East, ResearchJohn Hopkins has an enormous research enterprise, which means we can bring a lot of expertise to spur team-based scientific pursuit. Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) also contributes to Johns Hopkins Medicine’s research mission in unique ways. JHI colleagues draw from institutional data — and personal experience — to publish research on how academic medical centers […]
Part of a Nobel Entourage
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Health Innovation, Research“Gregg, when you win the Nobel, I want a ticket.” That’s what I told Dr. Gregg Semenza 25 years ago as he began making serious headway in his research on the hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) protein, which switches genes on and off in cells in response to low oxygen levels. Thanks to the research of […]
The Time Is Now for Precision Care
Posted by | Medical Technology, Patient Care, Precision Medicine, ResearchGlobal Promise contributors have shared their thoughts about precision medicine — Johns Hopkins’ approach to it and how it’s helping us to create personalized 3D virtual replicas, among other innovative applications. Precision medicine is essential for those of us who are interested in improving health and health care while also minimizing cost and confusion. In […]
Joint Faculty from Our Joint Venture
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Collaboration, Health Care Leadership Development, Medical Education, Middle East, ResearchA faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins signifies the highest standards of our academic institution — standards that we embrace not only as part of our job description, but as part of who we are as teachers, investigators and physicians. Our physicians and researchers have earned some of the most respected awards and honors in medicine […]
Global Disparity: Death by Medical Emergency
Posted by | Patient Care, Patient Safety, ResearchBy Junaid Razzak, M.B.B.S, Ph.D. Medical emergencies — injuries, strokes, heart attacks and lung infections — caused about half of the world’s 28 million human deaths in 2015, with poorer nations bearing the bulk of the burden. This may surprise some readers because global health research traditionally focuses on primary care and disease prevention, leaving […]
Resetting the Brain for Post-Stroke Recovery
Posted by | Care Providers, Patient Care, Patient Safety, ResearchBy Pablo Celnik, M.D. Stroke is the third-leading cause of disability worldwide and a major cause of dementia and depression, according to the World Health Organization. Recovery from a stroke can take months or years, depending on the patient’s loss of functions. So my team from the Center of Excellence in Stroke Treatment, Recovery and […]
Engineering Precision Cardiology
Posted by | Care Providers, Collaboration, Health Innovation, Medical Technology, Middle East, Patient Care, Precision Medicine, ResearchBy Dr. Hugh Calkins Here at Johns Hopkins, we are blending engineering and cardiology to create more personalized approaches to diagnose and treat heart rhythm disorders. Leveraging innovations in cardiac imaging, computer simulations and data science could help us manage these disorders, which can lead to elevated risks of blood clots, stroke, dementia and death. […]
Rousing Research Through Global Affiliations
Posted by | Collaboration, Middle East, ResearchResearch is at the foundation of Johns Hopkins Medicine — from basic research, where scientists study how cells function, to clinical research that builds on those findings using trials, to translational research that takes information gleaned from those trials and delivers them to our patients as innovative treatments. Research is also at the foundation of […]
Burnout: a Crisis Among Physicians in Training
Posted by | Care Providers, Health System Sustainability, Medical Education, ResearchRecently, the American Medical Association (AMA) invested $15 million in eight ambitious programs to address the workplace needs of our current health system. Among the goals of this grant was to address the crisis of burnout among training physicians by investing in wellness innovations. In many ways, it is an issue as important and consequential […]