Use of Minimally Invasive Surgery Could Lower Health Care Costs by Hundreds of Millions a Year - 3/25/15
A new analysis of surgical outcomes nationwide concludes that more use of minimally invasive surgery for certain common procedures can dramatically reduce post-operative complications and shave hundreds of millions of dollars off the nation's health care bill. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 25, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Lung Transplant Patients in the UK Fare Better Than Publicly Insured Americans - 3/24/15
Publicly insured Americans who undergo lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis fare markedly worse in the long run than both publicly insured patients in the United Kingdom and privately insured Americans, according to the results of a study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and U.K. colleagues working in that nation’s government-funded National Health Service. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 24, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Renowned Intestinal Surgeon to Join Johns Hopkins Children's Center - 3/23/15
Distinguished pediatric surgeon Samuel M. Alaish, M.D., will join the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center to co-lead its newly formed Center for Intestinal Rehab and Cure Using Science (CIRCUS), a multidisciplinary program dedicated to the study and care of children with short bowel syndrome, a condition marked by insufficient gut tissue or poor gut function due to acquired or congenital diseases. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 23, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
News Media Advisory: Behind-the-Scenes Tour Offered - 3/20/15
To mark a new international collaboration between Johns Hopkins Medicine's Department of Pathology and Zhejiang DIAN Diagnostics Co., the largest private diagnostic laboratory in the People's Republic of China, reporters are invited to a behind-the-scenes tour of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s newest and most sophisticated diagnostic laboratories, followed by a signing ceremony in the hospital’s historic Billings Administration Building. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 20, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Streamlined 'Military' Work Flow Means More Patient Appointments and Fewer Return Visits - 3/19/15
Both patients and physicians may benefit from a "work flow" system developed at military medical facilities and tested at a Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center clinic, according to results of an efficiency study. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 19, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Medical Students: Meet Your Match - 3/18/15
The wait is almost over for students who will soon graduate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: At noon on Friday, March 20, they will open the envelopes that let them know where they will spend the next chapter of their lives training for careers in the medical field of their choosing. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 18, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify 'Missing Culprit' in Heart Failure - 3/18/15
Working with lab animals and human heart cells, scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions have identified what they describe as “the long-sought culprit” in the mystery behind a cell-signaling breakdown that triggers heart failure. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 18, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Why People with Diabetes Can't Buy Generic Insulin - 3/18/15
A generic version of insulin, the lifesaving diabetes drug used by 6 million people in the United States, has never been available in this country because drug companies have made incremental improvements that kept insulin under patent from 1923 to 2014. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 18, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Study Reveals Previously Unknown Site of Anesthetic Action - 3/17/15
Anesthetics have been used in surgical procedures for more than 150 years, but the mechanisms by which inhaled anesthesia actually work are poorly understood. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 17, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
New Johns Hopkins University Center Brings Imaging Therapies To Pets - 3/16/15
Recent years have seen breakneck innovation in the field of radiology, from MRI-guided biopsies, to image-guided stenting, to ways to lower radiation dosage while preserving image quality. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 16, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
PBS Stations Nationwide to Premiere Documentary Featuring Johns Hopkins Cancer Research and Care - 3/16/15
A six-hour PBS documentary series about the story of cancer, including research and treatment, billed by its producers as one of the most comprehensive of its kind yet made, will premiere nationwide March 30, 31 and April 1 featuring several patient stories and interviews conducted with clinicians and scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 16, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Scientists Use X-ray Vision to Probe Early Stages of DNA 'Photocopying' - 3/12/15
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have created a 3-D model of a complex protein machine, ORC, which helps prepare DNA to be duplicated. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 12, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins Experts Available on Patient Safety - 3/11/15
The following Johns Hopkins Medicine experts are available for interviews during Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 9-14, 2015: Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., F.C.C.M., J. Matthew Austin, Ph.D., Rhonda Malone Wyskiel, R.N., B.S.N., Michael Rosen, Ph.D., Alicia Arbaje, M.D., M.P.H. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 11, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Remains Among Nation ’s Top-Ranked Medical Schools - 3/10/15
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine retains its ranking as one of the top medical schools in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report ’s 2016 list of Best Graduate Schools. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 10, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins Researchers Engineer Custom Blood Cells - 3/10/15
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully corrected a genetic error in stem cells from patients with sickle cell disease, and then used those cells to grow mature red blood cells, they report. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - March 10, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
