While an aspirin a day helps keep a heart attack at bay, it may need reinforcement to totally prevent blood clots among patients with chest pain, a study shows.
Scientists are closing in on genetic contributors to high blood pressure and other causes of heart and cardiovascular disease. A research associate will present evidence that a region of chromosome 1 is involved in appropriately regulating blood pressure.
Researchers will reveal the existence of specific short repeats of particular genetic building blocks in the gene at the root of cystic fibrosis, an inherited and often fatal lung disease. The researchers will also show how the repetitious pattern may help predict the disease's severity.
A research team has discovered a potential new contributor to obesity -- faulty cilia.
Although more American adults than children are infected with the HIV virus, children with the disease use more HIV-related health care services, a researcher reports.
More than 60 percent of liver transplant patients with advanced liver cancer are still alive after five years, compared to nearly zero survival for those patients who did not undergo transplant, according to a study.
A three-year study led by a nurse investigator has found that it may take a "village" to significantly lower the blood pressure of urban African-American men. "The traditional one-on-one doctor-patient visit in a doctor's office will simply not work."
Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered a key step in the body's regulation of melatonin, a major sleep-related chemical in the brain. The research team reports finding the switch that causes destruction of the enzyme that makes melatonin -- no enzyme, no melatonin.
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have learned that a common, cancer-linked gene thought to control blood vessel growth may not turn out to be useful as an effective target for cancer drug development.
The following news tips are based on abstracts to be presented at the annual meeting of ASTRO. 1) Gene silencer may improve chemo and radiation; 2) Fighting the side effects of radiation
Scientists investigating nitric oxide - the molecular messenger that contributes to body functions as wide-ranging as cell death, new blood vessel growth and erections - have figured out how it can block blood vessel inflammation and prevent clotting, a process that has long stumped biologists.
Mildly elevated blood pressure affecting millions of Americans could lead to heart pumping disorders if left untreated. The amount of oxygen that can be circulated throughout the body during each heart beat while exercising could reveal to doctors early signs of heart trouble in this population.
A new study confirms the lasting benefits of hemispherectomy, a dramatic operation in which half the brain is removed to relieve frequent severe seizures that medications cannot control.
An analysis of more than 7 million recent discharge records from hospitals in 28 states reveals that a group of 18 medical injuries that occur during hospitalization may account for 2.4 million extra hospital days, $9.3 billion in excess charges, and almost 32,600 attributable US deaths annually.
In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neighborhood may be everything, if a new study in mouse models of the disease holds true for patients.
Like expert curators who verify and create catalogs of the world's great art collections, an international team of scientists has developed a human protein database they say will change the way biology is done. The team unveils the online Human Protein Reference Database.
A hand-held vacuum aspiration device works as well as a more expensive electrical one for ending second-trimester pregnancies, according to results of a study.
The Avon Foundation has awarded $10 million to the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins to build a new breast center, support research designed to decrease breast cancer incidence and death rates and fund education and outreach initiatives.
A woman's fitness level and the time it takes for her heart to return to normal after exercise are more accurate predictors of female heart disease risk than electrical recordings of the heart, according to a national study led by Johns Hopkins researchers.
A research team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has discovered a potential new contributor to obesity -- faulty cilia.
Surgeons on Thursday successfully separated 2-month-old conjoined twins Faithful and Favour Sobowale-Davies. The twins, from Lagos, Nigeria, had been joined at the abdomen and sternum (chest), and their livers had been fused.
Researchers report final results of a study showing that a safe, simple and inexpensive treatment reduces transmission of HIV from mothers to babies during childbirth and the first few weeks of life, offering a good chance to curb the spread of HIV.
In teenagers, being overweight appears to threaten the success of wearing a back brace, the most commonly prescribed and only proven non-surgical treatment for curvature of the spine, say researchers.
A study appears to offer the first hard evidence that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, severe psychoses that affect 2 percent of the population, may have similar genetic roots.
Many Internet sites marketing and advertising dietary supplements containing the herb ephedra are posting false or misleading information, a study demonstrates.
Researchers propose, for the first time, that HIV and other retroviruses can use a Trojan horse style of infection, taking advantage of a cloak of human proteins to sneak into cells.
Researchers report that the rigorously high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet known as the ketogenic diet, shown to reduce or eliminate difficult-to-control seizures in children with epilepsy, significantly raised children's cholesterol and levels of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood.
There's a lot said about a woman's ticking biological clock, but male biology doesn't age as gracefully as men might like to think. Scientists have discovered that older men's sperm is more likely to contain disease-causing genetic mutations that also seem to increase a sperm's chances of fertilizing an egg.
A dedicated trauma service staffed by full-time specialists at hospitals can significantly reduce patient triage times in the emergency department (ED), help reduce ED overcrowding and lower death rates.
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By altering the signaling pathway of the natural hormone leptin doctors may one day be able to minimize or even reverse a dangerous enlarged heart condition linked to obesity.
Story ideas from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions: 1)How to achieve that healthy tan without the harm; 2)Being sun safe; 3)Prevent dehydration; 4)Prevent commonplace injuries this summer
It's not a cure, but a novel form of gene therapy has delayed symptoms and almost doubled life expectancy in mice with the equivalent of Lou Gehrig's disease.
As little as one home visit by a community health worker, as part of a community/academic health center program, may be enough to encourage someone with high blood pressure to take measures to lower it.
A study has found that even in relatively impoverished neighborhoods, home ownership is linked to lower rates of use of emergency departments for emergent and general medical care.
It lacks the warm bedside manner of Marcus Welby or Dr. Kildare, but a high-tech robot could be used to link patients with their physicians in a whole new way.
The Genetics and Public Policy Center at The Johns Hopkins University has established the Reproductive Genetics Advisory Committee to provide expert advice on the scientific, medical, legal, social, ethical, and policy issues that accompany genetic testing, gene transfer and cloning technologies and their potential applications to human reproduction.
Surgeons on July 28 performed what is believed to be the world's first "triple swap" kidney transplant operation, giving a woman from Miami, a woman from Pittsburgh and a child from Washington, D.C., new leases on life.
Animal research has found that a drug already approved by the FDA for testing in people might one day dramatically expand the number of livers useable for human transplantation.
Researchers have shown that a drug commonly used for depression, also improves quality of life and alleviates disruption in daily activities for the one-quarter of Alzheimer's patients who also suffer from major depression.
For decades, scientists have hunted for signals that guide nerve cells' tentacle-like axons, hoping to understand how these cell tips reach out to distant targets. It's knowledge that might one day help researchers learn how to rebuild nerves lost to spinal cord injuries or diseases like Huntington's.
A study from The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing concludes depression may sabotage efforts to control high blood pressure in urban, African-American men.
Results of a Johns Hopkins study suggest that natural chemicals released in the body as a result of chronic inflammation may underpin the failure of low-fat, so-called heart healthy diets to actually reduce cholesterol and heart disease risk in some people.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins are challenging a practice that's almost as old as American medicine: the venerable doctors' "rounds," visiting hospitalized patients daily to check their health status with eager, white-coated medical students and residents scurrying along from bed to bed as each case is reviewed and discussed.
At an American Association for Cancer Research forum Johns Hopkins' Curt Civin, M.D., will lead a discussion about stem cell research and policy and their relation to cancer research.
Parents whose kids are allergic to peanuts may be relieved to know that it's possible their children could outgrow their allergy over time.
People with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), a precursor to diabetes, are at increased risk of dying from colon and other cancers, according to a study directed by Johns Hopkins researchers.
Access to guns, threats to kill and most of all, unemployment, are the biggest predictors of the murder of women in abusive relationships, concludes a nationwide case control study led by a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
Johns Hopkins researchers report that injection of human stem cells into the fluid around the spinal cord of each of 15 paralyzed rats clearly improved the animals' ability to control their hind limbs -- but not at all in the way the scientists had expected.
A pilot study of the first proposed major change in decades to cardiopulmonary resuscitation suggests that performing the maneuver while patients are on their stomachs offers far better restoration of blood flow and blood pressure than the standard practice of keeping patients on their backs.
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