A simple test that measures a breast cancer patient’s ability to feel two metal points pressed against her fingertips may help evaluate the risk for developing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a new study by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers has shown. CTS, most often associated with computer keyboard typing, is caused by bone growth [...]
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Simple fingertip test may identify breast cancer patients at CTS risk
December 11th, 2010 |
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Bill Gates Pledges $10 Billion for Vaccines over Next Decade
January 29th, 2010 |
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Bill and Melinda Gates announced at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that their foundation would pledge about $10 billion over the next decade to help research and deliver vaccines to children in the developing world. The Gates Foundation estimated that the money could save as many as 8.7 million children over the next decade, at least based on a model developed in conjunction with Johns Hopkins. In addition to vaccination development, the foundation is focusing its attention on education and agricultural initiatives.
– Bill and Melinda Gates pledged some $10 billion over the next
decade to help research and deliver vaccines to children around the world,
making the announcement at the World Economic Forums Annual Meeting in Davos,
Switzerland.
quot;We must make this the decade of vaccines, quot; said Bill G…
Top 25 Companies with H-1B Visas in 2009
January 4th, 2010 |
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A mix of U.S. and Asian-based technology, financial and consulting companies top the list of enterprises that have applied for and received approval for H-1B visas in 2009.
There are at least 200 companies that applied for H-1B visas in 2009. The major technology companies that did not rank in the Top 25, but did rank in the Top 50 include Yahoo, Amazon, Apple, Texas Instruments, Nvidia and IBM.
Some of the leading research universities in the United States also rank in the Top 50. Some of the top H-1B visa obtainers this year included University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, University of Pittsburgh, Columbia, and Baylor College of Medicine.
The following gallery is a countdown of the Top 25 companies from No. 25 to No. 1 and the specific number of H-1B visas these companies were granted by the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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New drug target may help treat chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps
November 23rd, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a protein that is responsible for causing chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps.
Chronic sinusitis, a constant irritation and swelling of the nasal passages, is a common condition thought to affect about one out of every six people. This problem has several forms with a range of severities.
One of the most severe [...]
Maternal depression may aggravate childhood asthma
November 20th, 2009 |
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Children with depressed mothers are likely to frequently suffer asthma symptoms, reveals a new study.
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, maternal depression aggravates a child’s asthma.
They looked at 262 mothers of African-American children with asthma and found that children whose mothers had more depressive symptoms had more frequent asthma symptoms during the six-months of the study. [...]
Protein changes in heart indicate Alzheimer’’s disease linked with heart failure
November 16th, 2009 |
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By observing changes in the chemical structure of a protein, researchers have established a link between Alzheimer’’s disease and chronic heart failure.
The international team of biochemists and cardiologists, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins, have said that they have identified three changes in the chemical make-up of a key structural protein, called desmin, in heart [...]
1930s gonorrhea drug could fight cancer
November 7th, 2009 |
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Drug, acriflavine, used in the 1930s for treating gonorrhea, has now been found beneficial in battling cancer, according to a new study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Researchers have found that acriflavine has the previously unknown ability to halt the growth of new blood vessels.
“Often times we are surprised that a drug known [...]
Daily potassium citrate may prevent seizure patients on high-fat diet from kidney stones
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’’s Center say that children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can be prevented from the excruciatingly painful kidney stones, which the diet may sometimes cause, by giving them a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they start the diet.
“We can confidently say this is a safe [...]
Kids’ Lower IQ Scores Linked To Prenatal Pollution
July 20th, 2009 |
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CHICAGO — Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain.
The results are in a study of 249 children of New Y…