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The Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Today, Johns Hopkins uses one overarching name—Johns Hopkins Medicine—to identify its entire medical enterprise. This $5 billion system unites the physicians and scientists of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the health professionals and facilities that make up the broad, integrated Johns Hopkins Health System.
Summary: A 30-day experiment on the International Space Station shows that low gravity conditions weaken human heart tissue and disrupt normal beating rhythms, raising concerns for long-term space missions.
Sep 23, 2024
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has yielded a wealth of new insights into the nature and formation of near-Earth asteroids.
Aug 3, 2024
New research from Johns Hopkins University reveals that fertilizers made from wastewater treatment leftovers may contain potentially harmful organic chemicals.
Jun 25, 2024
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have built a minimal synthetic cell that follows an external chemical cue and demonstrates a fundamental principle of biology called "symmetry breaking.
Jun 13, 2024
Losing a loved one to drug overdose has been a common experience for many Americans in recent years, crossing political and socioeconomic divides and boosting…
May 31, 2024
A study analyzing Medicare admissions at nearly 2,000 acute care hospitals nationwide during 2019 found that most hospitals—nearly four out of five—admitted a…
Apr 23, 2024
Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish.
Apr 9, 2024
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that monitoring daily activity patterns using a wrist-worn device may help detect early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease.
Mar 11, 2024
An immune component of breast milk known as the complement system shapes the gut environment of infant mice in ways that make them less susceptible to certain…
Jan 25, 2024
Soy compounds called isoflavones are among the plant-derived compounds that may significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death, according to a new meta-analysis co-directed by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
Jan 11, 2024
Summary In an article published in JAMA Surgery, three researchers from Johns Hopkins challenge the common belief that many transgender and gender diverse…
Dec 29, 2023
Apes recognize photos of groupmates they haven’t seen for more than 25 years and respond even more enthusiastically to pictures of their friends, a new study finds.
Dec 19, 2023
For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men.
Nov 13, 2023
A new review paper co-authored by two Johns Hopkins pain experts suggests that scrambler therapy, a noninvasive pain treatment, can yield significant relief…
Jul 31, 2023
