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Released: 24-Jan-2019 4:05 PM EST
WEST VIRGINIA STUDY DETAILS PROMISING METHOD FOR ESTIMATING RURAL INTRAVENOUS DRUG USE
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A study published today in the American Journal of Public Health estimates that 1,857 people injected drugs in the last six months in Cabell County, W.Va., a rural county with a population of 94,958. This estimate is based on an innovative survey technique that public health officials can now use in their own rural communities to address the opioid epidemic.

Released: 24-Jan-2019 1:00 PM EST
Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted galaxy D100 being stripped of its gas as the wayward spiral plunges towards the center of the giant Coma cluster containing more than 1,000 galaxies. Gas is the lifeblood of a galaxy, fueling the birth of new stars. Once it is stripped of all of its gas, D100 will enter retirement and shine only by the feeble glow of its aging, red stars (such as galaxy D99 -- just below and to the left of D100) in this image.

Released: 24-Jan-2019 7:00 AM EST
Zinc Deficiency May Play a Role in High Blood Pressure
American Physiological Society (APS)

Lower-than-normal zinc levels may contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension) by altering the way the kidneys handle sodium. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Renal Physiology.

Released: 23-Jan-2019 5:05 PM EST
How bacteria build hyper-efficient photosynthesis machines
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Researchers facing a future with a larger population and more uncertain climate are looking to photosynthetic bacteria for engineering solutions to improve crop yields. A Canadian research team reports on how bacteria build protein machines to finesse one of the most wasteful steps in photosynthesis.

Released: 23-Jan-2019 11:50 AM EST
University of Maryland, College Park

Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created the first 3D-printed fluid circuit element so tiny that 10 could rest on the width of a human hair. The diode ensures fluids move in only a single direction--a critical feature for products like implantable devices that release therapies directly into the body.

Released: 22-Jan-2019 6:05 PM EST
Northwest Hospital Earns National Recognition as Maryland’s First Hospital with Completely Smoke-Free Operating Rooms
LifeBridge Health

Did you know that some instruments used during operations can produce smoke that is hazardous to surgical teams and patients? Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Maryland decided it was time to do something about the situation.

Released: 22-Jan-2019 5:05 PM EST
Can Older Surgeons Still Operate Safely?
LifeBridge Health

The Aging Surgeon Program at LifeBridge Health in Baltimore tests the skills of surgeons, both mentally and physically, to assess whether they are able to operate safely and accurately.

Released: 22-Jan-2019 11:00 AM EST
Test for Esophageal Cancer Could Save Millions of Lives
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Cancer of the esophagus claims more than 400,000 lives around the world each year. With no efficient, reliable method of screening for the disease, by the time symptoms become apparent, it's often too late to save the patient.

Released: 22-Jan-2019 10:20 AM EST
To Halt Malaria Transmission, More Research Focused on Human Behavior Needed
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Wherever possible, researchers should not just focus on mosquito behavior when working to eliminate malaria, but must also consider how humans behave at night when the risk of being bitten by an infected mosquito is highest, new findings from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) suggest. CCP is based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Released: 22-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
ACG and Wolters Kluwer Embark on New Publishing Partnership
American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)

The American College of Gastroenterology is pleased to announce publication of the first issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology under the College’s new partnership with Wolters Kluwer, who now publishes all three of ACG’s scientific journals: The American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG), Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology (CTG), and the ACG Case Reports Journal (ACGCRJ).

Released: 22-Jan-2019 9:00 AM EST
Press registration now open for 2019 Experimental Biology meeting
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

Complimentary press passes and virtual newsroom access are now available for the Experimental Biology (EB) 2019 meeting, to be held April 6–9 in Orlando. EB is the annual meeting of five scientific societies bringing together more than 12,000 scientists and 25 guest societies in one interdisciplinary community.

Released: 22-Jan-2019 8:00 AM EST
Faulty molecular master switch may contribute to AMD
NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)

A signaling pathway controlled by transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) could be involved in the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Released: 17-Jan-2019 3:05 PM EST
‘Dirty John’ and a Safety Plan for Domestic Violence
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Today we have a good understanding of the pattern of dangerous behaviors abusive men use to manipulate their partners. However, most women, their friends, and their family members do not have access to safety information. Dirty John presents an opportunity for women in abusive relationships to learn more about developing a personalized, practical safety plan for when in danger.

Released: 17-Jan-2019 2:05 PM EST
Tiny Generators Turn Body Motion Into Weight Control and Wound-Healing Therapies
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Bioengineers have developed implantable and wearable nanogenerators that create electrical pulses when compressed by body motions. The pulses controlled weight gain and enhanced healing of skin wounds in rat models.

   
14-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
How to Rapidly Image Entire Brains at Nanoscale Resolution
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

A powerful new technique combines expansion microscopy with lattice light-sheet microscopy for nanoscale imaging of fly and mouse neuronal circuits and their molecular constituents that’s roughly 1,000 times faster than other methods.

Released: 17-Jan-2019 9:00 AM EST
Whole Genome Sequencing Method May Speed Personalized Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Infections
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have added to evidence that rapid resistance gene sequencing technology can accurately speed the identification of specific antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains that sicken and kill some patients. A report on a proof of concept study, published in the January 2019 issue of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, suggests the technology has the potential to hasten the “personalized” choice of antibiotics critically ill patients need.

Released: 17-Jan-2019 7:00 AM EST
Soft Drinks + Hard Work + Hot Weather = Possible Kidney Disease Risk
American Physiological Society (APS)

New research suggests that drinking sugary, caffeinated soft drinks while exercising in hot weather may increase the risk of kidney disease. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Released: 16-Jan-2019 3:05 PM EST
NIH researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration
NIH, National Eye Institute (NEI)

Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) prevented blindness in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced “dry” form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of vision loss among people age 65 and older. The protocols established by the animal study, published January 16 in Science Translational Medicine (STM), set the stage for a first-in-human clinical trial testing the therapy in people with geographic atrophy, for which there is currently no treatment.

Released: 16-Jan-2019 9:00 AM EST
Study Defines Differences Among Brain Neurons That Coincide With Psychiatric Conditions
Johns Hopkins Medicine

It's no surprise to scientists that variety is the very essence of biology, not just the seasoning, but most previous studies of key brain cells have found little variability in a common cell process that involves how genetic information is read and acted on.

Released: 16-Jan-2019 8:40 AM EST
Bioactive Scaffolds Guide the Way to Sore Knee Relief, Cartilage Repair
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed a 3D-printed scaffold coated in aggrecan, a native cartilage component, to improve the regeneration of cartilage tissue in joints. The scaffold was combined with a common microfracture procedure and tested in rabbits. The University of Maryland researchers found the combination of the implant and microfracture procedure to be ten times more effective than microfracture alone.

   
Released: 15-Jan-2019 12:05 PM EST
Finance Expert Prabhala Joins Faculty of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Nagpurnanand Prabhala, an expert in empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation, has joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s full-time faculty as a professor in the research track.

   
Released: 15-Jan-2019 10:45 AM EST
Fraction of U.S. Outpatient Treatment Centers Offer Medication for Opioid Addiction
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Despite the mounting death toll of America’s opioid crisis, only a minority of facilities that treat substance use disorders offer patients buprenorphine, naltrexone or methadone—the three FDA-approved medications for the long-term management of opioid use disorder, according to a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Released: 15-Jan-2019 8:05 AM EST
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Ranks No.1 for Online Nursing Education by U.S. News & World Report
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) has the No. 1 online nursing program in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report Best Online Program 2019 rankings. The school advanced from its previous No. 5 ranking marking a significant move in its leadership of online education. JHSON is also ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report for its graduate nursing program.

Released: 14-Jan-2019 11:05 AM EST
Demi Lovato’s Overdose Causes Surge in Media, but Few Mentions of Lifesaving Hotline
 Johns Hopkins University

A recent celebrity suicide and another celebrity's drug overdose point to differences in the way that toll-free helplines are publicized when such major news stories occur.

   
Released: 10-Jan-2019 11:05 AM EST
A New Way to Measure Solar Panel Degradation
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

How does one inspect solar panels in real time, in a way that is both cost-effective and time-efficient? Parveen Bhola, and Saurabh Bhardwaj, researchers at India’s Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, have spent the last few years developing and improving statistical and machine learning-based alternatives to enable real-time inspection of solar panels. Their research found a new application for clustering-based computation, which uses past meteorological data to compute performance ratios and degradation rates.

Released: 10-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Particle Physicist Fabiola Gianotti Wins 2018 Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The American Institute of Physics announced today that it has awarded the 2018 John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics to Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, “in recognition of her leadership as Spokesperson of the ATLAS international collaboration and as Director-General of CERN in promoting science as a vehicle for broad international cooperation.”

Released: 10-Jan-2019 7:00 AM EST
Sex Differences in ‘Body Clock’ May Benefit Women’s Heart Health
American Physiological Society (APS)

Research suggests that a gene that governs the body’s biological (circadian) clock acts differently in males versus females and may protect females from heart disease. The study is the first to analyze circadian blood pressure rhythms in female mice. The research, published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, was chosen as an APSselect article for January.

Released: 9-Jan-2019 5:15 PM EST
NASA's Hubble Helps Astronomers Uncover Brightest Quasar in the Early Universe
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the brightest object ever seen at a time when the universe was less than one billion years old. The brilliant beacon is a quasar, the core of a galaxy with a black hole ravenously eating material surrounding it. The quasar would have gone undetected without its light being turbo-boosted by the gravitational field of a closer galaxy that is bending and amplifying the distant quasar’s light.

Released: 9-Jan-2019 9:00 AM EST
Schizophrenia Linked with Abnormal Immune Response to Epstein-Barr Virus
Johns Hopkins Medicine

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Sheppard Pratt Health System shows that people in the study with schizophrenia also have higher levels of antibodies against the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, so-called mono.

Released: 8-Jan-2019 2:05 PM EST
Mercy Colorectal Surgeon Dr. Jeffery Nelson Performs Minimally Invasive Outpatient Treatment for Hemorrhoids
Mercy Medical Center

Jeffery Nelson, M.D., FACS, FASCRS, Surgical Director of The Center for Inflammatory Bowel and Colorectal Diseases, Institute for Digestive Health & Liver Disease at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, now offers patients a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure for treating hemorrhoids.

Released: 8-Jan-2019 1:15 PM EST
Young Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs May Lack Ingredients for Life
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars may be dry and lifeless, according to astronomers using the Hubble telescope to study an eroding debris disk encircling the nearby star AU Microscopii. Life-nurturing ingredients, including water, may be blown away before they can reach young planets.

Released: 8-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST
Top University of Maryland School of Medicine Genomics Scientist Claire M. Fraser, Phd, Appointed President-Elect of AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science (Aaas)
University of Maryland School of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, announced today that Claire M. Fraser, PhD, a pioneer in the field of microbial genomics, who is the Dean’s Endowed Professor, Department of Medicine, and Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), has been chosen as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

   
Released: 8-Jan-2019 11:00 AM EST
Edwin A. Bergin Wins the 2019 Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The Heineman Foundation, the American Institute of Physics and American Astronomical Society congratulate Edwin A. Bergin, professor and chair of astronomy at the University of Michigan, for winning the 2019 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, which he wins “for his pioneering work in astrochemistry and innovative contributions to our understanding of the physics and chemistry of star and planet formation, and for his tireless efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in astronomy.”

Released: 7-Jan-2019 4:00 PM EST
Older People Who Use Hearing Aids Still Report Hearing Challenges
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A high proportion of older people with hearing aids, especially those with lower incomes, report having trouble hearing and difficulty accessing hearing care services, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

4-Jan-2019 11:25 AM EST
U.S. Health Care Spending Highest Among Developed Countries
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a study from a team led by a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researcher.

Released: 7-Jan-2019 3:00 PM EST
How the Brain Decides Whether to Hold ’Em or Fold ’Em
 Johns Hopkins University

Why do people make high-risk choices -- in casinos, or in aspects of their everyday lives – even when they know the odds are against them?

Released: 7-Jan-2019 12:00 PM EST
Triangulum Galaxy Shows Stunning Face in Detailed Hubble Portrait
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has produced this detailed portrait of the Triangulum galaxy (M33), displaying a full spiral face aglow with the light of nearly 25 million individually resolved stars. It is the largest high-resolution mosaic image of Triangulum ever assembled, composed of 54 Hubble fields of view spanning an area more than 19,000 light-years across.

Released: 7-Jan-2019 11:00 AM EST
Stem Cell Signal Drives New Bone Building
Johns Hopkins Medicine

In experiments in rats and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have added to evidence that a cellular protein signal that drives both bone and fat formation in selected stem cells can be manipulated to favor bone building.

Released: 3-Jan-2019 3:05 PM EST
Study sheds light on the function of a long-mysterious PCSK9 mutation
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Researchers investigating variations in experimental results between a test tube and liver cells have found a new way for PCKS9's interaction with a liver surface proteoglycan to occur.

Released: 3-Jan-2019 8:00 AM EST
Technology and Doctors Combine to Detect Patients Who Don’t Take Their Pills
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins researchers have shown how to best identify nonadherent patients, combining technology with the perceptions of health care providers.

Released: 2-Jan-2019 1:25 PM EST
CMS Approves GIQuIC as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry for the 2019 Reporting Year
American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)

The GI Quality Improvement Consortium, Ltd. (GIQuIC) Registry has been approved as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) for reporting to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for the 2019 reporting year. GIQuIC will host an informational webinar on reporting via the GIQuIC 2019 QCDR in February 2019.

Released: 2-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Foods for Healthy Aging
LifeBridge Health

Eating healthy, less of a priority for many in their youthful years, becomes all the more necessary as the risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s and other age-related conditions increases as you get older.

Released: 2-Jan-2019 10:05 AM EST
Keys to Intra-Workout Nutrition
LifeBridge Health

Intra-workout nutrition doesn’t only apply to what you’re putting into your body while you are exercising. Rather, it encompasses what you eat or drink before, during and after a workout.

Released: 21-Dec-2018 4:05 PM EST
University of Maryland School of Dentistry Researcher Seeks New Adjuvants for Vaccines
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Ernst-led team will evaluate adjuvants for both antigen- and dose-sparing capabilities, which may result in decreased cost of vaccines and improved compliance in the battle against infectious diseases.

Released: 21-Dec-2018 4:05 PM EST
University of Maryland School of Dentistry Researcher Seeks New Adjuvants for Vaccines
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Ernst-led team will evaluate adjuvants for both antigen- and dose-sparing capabilities, which may result in decreased cost of vaccines and improved compliance in the battle against infectious diseases.

19-Dec-2018 1:40 PM EST
Police Interactions Linked To Increased Risk of Client Violence for Female Sex Workers
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The more abusive interactions street-based female sex workers (FSWs) have with police, the higher their risk of violence at the hands of clients, a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests.

Released: 20-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
Hubble Takes a Close Look at the Brightest Comet of the Year
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on December 13, when the comet was 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth.



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