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Myths About Huntington' Disease
HD is a male disease. If your mother is affected with HD it is more likely you will have a similar age of onset. If your father is affected with HD you have the potential of developing the disease at ...
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History of The Johns Hopkins Hospital
From grocer to philanthropist, a man named Johns Hopkins laid out a plan to use his wealth to establish a hospital that would provide care to anyone, regardless of sex, age or race. This hospital ...
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Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins Medicine’s A Woman’s Journey Hosts 30th Anniversary of Health Education Program
WHAT: A Woman’s Journey will host its 30th annual in-person event in November, with Johns Hopkins Medicine experts sharing ...
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Drug Combination Prompts Immune Response in Some Resistant Pancreatic Cancers
In a small subset of those patients, the combination resulted in a strong response with tumor shrinkage and no disease ...
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Johns Hopkins Health Plans Adds Bon Secours to Virginia Network
HANOVER, MD – November 12, 2024 — Johns Hopkins Health Plans has executed a provider agreement with Bon Secours Mercy Health, adding the health system to its expanding provider network in Virginia.
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Class Statistics
The 70 women and 50 men of the 2023 entering class have performed at a high level academically and scored in the top few percentiles on standardized tests. And while the fact that the majority of ...
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Evidence-Based Practice
As nurses, we often hear the term evidence-based practice (EBP). But, what does it actually mean? EBP is a process used to review, analyze, and translate the latest scientific evidence. The goal is to ...
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Suburban Hospital Program Gives High Schoolers Opportunities for Medical Exploration
After 17-year-old Vivian Ooi moved to the United States from Taiwan, she wanted to meet other students with similar interests. Ooi saw a flyer for Suburban Hospital's Medical Exploring Program and ...
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For a Better Look at High-Grade Glioma, Let's Switch Off the Bright Lights
Neurosurgeon Raj Mukherjee uses fluorescence-guided imaging during operations and researches new ways to apply the approach — all to improve quality of life and outcomes for patients. Neurosurgeon Raj ...
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Department of Medicine Director Nadia Hansel on Why She Loves Her Job
Nadia Hansel, a child of immigrants and one of the first in her family to go to college, in September became the first female director of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University ...
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Explore Relationships Between Gut Microbiota and Colorectal Cancer
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, can increase the risk of colorectal cancer by as much as three times. A team of gastroenterologists at Johns Hopkins ...
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Computational Tool Developed to Predict Immunotherapy Outcomes for Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Using computational tools, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a method to assess which patients with metastatic ...