Medicare Program Spent $1.8 Billion in 2019 on Drugs Without Confirmed Clinical Benefits
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthStudy found that some drugs were on the market for over five years with no confirmed clinical benefit.
Study found that some drugs were on the market for over five years with no confirmed clinical benefit.
The study found that in pre-pandemic period, hospitals overall lost an average of $1 for every $100 earned from patient care activities, leading to an operating margin of negative 1 percent.
The study examined the impact of changes to state laws for civilians carrying concealed firearms and, using statistical modeling, estimated what would have happened if the laws had not changed.
Documents in the archive reveal the many ways opioid litigation defendants sought to increase sales of drugs they knew to be addictive and deadly.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will hold its Class of 2022 Convocation Saturday, May 21, at 3:30 p.m. EDT.
Join the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. EST for a virtual discussion about its new analysis of the 2020 CDC firearm fatality data that illustrates striking differences in gun violence across demographic and state-level geographic areas.
DNA-to-protein mapping could help researchers understand some health disparities.
A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention firearm fatality data for 2020—a year that saw the highest number of gun-related deaths ever recorded by the CDC and a sharp increase in gun homicides.
More patients with upper respiratory symptoms who started with telehealth consults required follows-ups, likely for COVID-19 assessment
Johns Hopkins will welcome Atul Gawande, assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the United States Agency for International Development, for a virtual conversation with Ellen J. MacKenzie, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Individuals with food insecurity were also two to three times more likely to have delayed or foregone specific types of care, including skipping a recommended treatment, test or follow-up visit, and not filling a prescription.
The findings suggest these single-celled organisms have programmed or regulated cell-death mechanisms like those that are known to work in animals and other complex organisms.
Two leading organizations dedicated to gun violence prevention—an academic center and an advocacy nonprofit—are merging to form a new center that will combine rigorous scientific research with public-policy advocacy.
Russia must cease its attacks on Ukraine’s health care facilities, as must perpetrators of attacks on health care in ongoing conflicts throughout the world.
Paper notes that the U.S. federal government budgeted $1.5 million in 2021 for child sexual abuse prevention research.
The new study suggests that children tend to have strong antibody responses after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Understanding antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 at different ages can inform COVID-19 vaccine strategies and policies.
The study provides scope and context to departures of public health officials during the first phase of the pandemic.
Pain experts and patient advocates had expressed concern that these laws may restrict access to opioid treatment for people with chronic pain without substituting effective non-opioid alternatives.
In analysis of 22 large cities in 14 countries, more than one-quarter did not report involvement of a public health agency.
The researchers found that the level of protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection fell by about 21 percentage points, on average, in the interval from one to six months after full vaccination—whereas the level of protection against severe COVID-19 fell by only about 10 percentage points in the same interval.
Pollack Porter, who joined the Bloomberg School faculty in 2006 and most recently served as Vice Dean for Faculty, will be the first Black department chair at the Bloomberg School. She assumes her new role on February 15.
Blocking a key protein found in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes—the principal vector for malaria transmission to humans in Africa—could thwart infection with malaria parasites and thus prevent them from transmitting the parasites to humans, according to a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The analysis, based on 2016-2019 data survey responses covering nearly 132,000 children ages 3 to 17, examined the complex interplay between common mental health problems among children, social and relational health risks, and protective factors.
The goal of the course is to empower more people to communicate with parents in the U.S. who have concerns about vaccinating their children, despite the availability of safe, effective, and free COVID-19 vaccines for children ages five and up.
The discovery raises the possibility that some of the roughly two million new cases of colorectal cancer every year around the world originate from brief and seemingly mild food-poisoning events.
New high-throughput platform screens drug compounds targeting macrodomain that plays critical role in the coronavirus life cycle.
A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that examined U.S. hospital compliance with new rules requiring hospitals to disclose prices found wide fluctuations across states, with some states achieving 75 percent or higher compliance and others coming in at 25 percent or lower.
Despite important steps taken by countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, all countries—across all income levels—remain dangerously unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats, according to the new 2021 Global Health Security Index.
New CDC data, collected by researchers at the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the Bloomberg School, finds an increase in autism prevalence in five Maryland counties based in 2018 data.
In a baseline scenario, the researchers project a rise in the ART-using population from about 670,000 in 2020 to nearly 910,000 by the end of 2030 if current trends in new HIV infections persist.
This next-generation funding will enable The Challenge Initiative to continue its support of city governments implementing evidence-based, high-impact interventions that improve access to contraception and family planning services.
The study found that overall, hospitalized COVID-19 patients taking immunosuppressive drugs did not face increased risk of death or being put on a ventilator compared with non-immunosuppressed hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
The Summit, hosted by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will bring together innovators and policymakers from around the country who are working in the Initiative’s five focus areas: addiction and overdose, environmental challenges, obesity and the food system, adolescent health, and violence.
The findings suggest the new no-prosecution policies did not result in increased public complaints about drug use or sex work in Baltimore, and that those who had charges dropped did not go on to commit serious crimes.
The Bloomberg School and the Pulitzer Center are co-hosting a free online event today, Thursday, October 14, at 1 p.m., EDT, with leading public health and communications experts to discuss ways to better reach vaccine-hesitant young adults during the pandemic.
The Bloomberg School and the Pulitzer Center are co-hosting a free online event on October 14, at 1 p.m., EDT, with leading public health and communications experts to discuss ways to better reach vaccine-hesitant young adults during the pandemic.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has appointed Joanne Kenen, a leading health journalist who has covered issues ranging from health disparities to the coronavirus pandemic, as the inaugural Commonwealth Fund Journalist in Residence.
On Wednesday, September 22, the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy is hosting a virtual panel discussion about the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. and specific calls to action state policymakers can take to address the issue.
A sex education program in Arizona significantly impacted key factors associated with pregnancy prevention among Native American teens.
Johns Hopkins scientist Ashani Weeraratna, PhD, a leading cancer researcher who specializes in melanoma and the effects of aging on cancer, has been appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board.
A new dashboard launched by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs unpacks survey findings and helps explain why some people say they definitely or probably won't get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccinations against human papillomavirus (HPV), a major cause of throat and back of mouth cancers, are expected to yield significant reductions in the rates of these cancers in the U.S., but will not do so until after 2045, according to a new modeling study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A study led by a researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that food insecurity among college students is associated with lower college graduation rates and lower chances of obtaining a bachelor’s or advanced degree
Despite their higher risk of chronic kidney disease, people with hypertension or diabetes usually are not given a simple test for protein in the urine to screen for this potentially deadly disorder.
As many as one-fifth of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 in the United States who may have benefitted from treatment with the anti-inflammatory steroid dexamethasone or closely related drugs were not given such treatment at the height of the pandemic.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has appointed Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, as a Bloomberg Centennial Professor.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has appointed Marsha Wills-Karp, PhD, MS, as a Bloomberg Centennial Professor.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has appointed Margaret Daniele (Dani) Fallin, PhD, as a Bloomberg Centennial Professor.
Members of a coalition of 50+ leading public health groups who issued a set of five guiding principles for spending opioid settlement funds in January are reacting to the announcement of the $26 billion settlement deal between a group of state attorneys general and Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, McKesson, and Johnson & Johnson.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have shown in a brain organoid study that exposure to a common pesticide synergizes with a frequent autism-linked gene mutation.