Researcher at Johns Hopkins Helps Lead Discovery on Efficacy and Safety of Eylea, Lucentis and Avastin for Treating Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema - 2/20/15
A researcher from Johns Hopkins Medicine helped lead colleagues from across the country in a government-sponsored study by the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network to discover that three drugs — Eylea, Avastin and Lucentis — used to treat diabetic macular edema are all effective. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 20, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins Researcher Awarded $1 Million to Study Use of Nanoparticles in Cancer Immunotherapy - 2/20/15
Robert Ivkov, Ph.D., an assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, has been awarded a three-year grant totaling $1,005,000 by the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy to develop nanoparticles — microscopic objects too tiny to see with the naked eye — that may help the body’s immune system recognize breast cancer cells. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 20, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Proteins Pull Together As Cells Divide - 2/19/15
Like a surgeon separating conjoined twins, cells have to be careful to get everything just right when they divide in two. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 19, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Broca ’s Area Is the Brain’s Scriptwriter, Shaping Speech, Study Finds - 2/17/15
What is happening in the brain of an actor reciting Hamlet ’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy or of the person next to you at lunch saying, “Please pass the salt”? (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 17, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Broca’s Area Is the Brain’s Scriptwriter, Shaping Speech, Study Finds - 2/17/15
What is happening in the brain of an actor reciting Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy or of the person next to you at lunch saying, “Please pass the salt”? (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 17, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Johns Hopkins and CDC Prepare Emergency Department Staff to Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases - 2/17/15
Four Web-based training modules developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine for emergency department personnel who treat patients with infectious diseases are now available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) YouTube channel. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 17, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Most Clinical 'Calculators' Over-Estimate Heart Attack Risk - 2/16/15
Most “risk calculators” used by clinicians to gauge a patient’s chances of suffering a heart attack and guide treatment decisions appear to significantly overestimate the likelihood of a heart attack, according to results of a study by investigators at Johns Hopkins and other institutions. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 16, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Under Pressure - 2/13/15
Just as human relationships are a two-way street, fusion between cells requires two active partners: one to send protrusions into its neighbor, and one to hold its ground and help complete the process. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 13, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
What Autism Can Teach Us About Brain Cancer - 2/9/15
Applying lessons learned from autism to brain cancer, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered why elevated levels of the protein NHE9 add to the lethality of the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 9, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Coral Snake Venom Reveals a Unique Route to Lethality - 2/9/15
For more than a decade, a vial of rare snake venom refused to give up its secret formula for lethality; its toxins had no effect on the proteins that most venoms target. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 9, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Neurosurgeon Henry Brem Named Physician of the Year for Clinical Excellence - 2/6/15
Henry Brem, M.D., director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, has been selected to receive a Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 6, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Cell Signaling Pathway Goes Awry in Common Pediatric Brain Tumor - 2/5/15
A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers links a well-known cell communication pathway called Notch to one of the most common — but overall still rare — brain tumors found in children. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 5, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
New Nanoparticle Gene Therapy Strategy Effectively Treats Deadly Brain Cancer in Rats - 2/3/15
Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist. New insights into specific gene mutations that arise in this often deadly form of brain cancer have pointed to the potential of gene therapy, but it’s very difficult to effectively deliver toxic or missing genes to cancer cells in the brain. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 3, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Felicia Hill-Briggs Named to American Diabetes Association Board of Directors - 2/2/15
Felicia Hill-Briggs, Ph.D., a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, has been named to the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 2, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
Scientists View Effect of Whisker Tickling on Mouse Brains - 2/2/15
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have succeeded in peering into the brains of live mice with such precision that they were able to see how the position of specific proteins changed as memories were forged. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - February 2, 2015 Category: Research Source Type: news
