Posts Tagged ‘Johns Hopkins’

BILL GATES PLEDGES $10 BILLION FOR VACCINES OVER NEXT DECADE

Friday, January 29, 2010 15:01

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 ...

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TOP 25 COMPANIES WITH H-1B VISAS IN 2009

Monday, January 4, 2010 17:23

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 ...

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NEW DRUG TARGET MAY HELP TREAT CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITH POLYPS

Monday, November 23, 2009 11:56

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. ...

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MATERNAL DEPRESSION MAY AGGRAVATE CHILDHOOD ASTHMA

Friday, November 20, 2009 6:49

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 ...

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PROTEIN CHANGES IN HEART INDICATE ALZHEIMER’’S DISEASE LINKED WITH HEART FAILURE

Monday, November 16, 2009 9:48

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 ...

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1930S GONORRHEA DRUG COULD FIGHT CANCER

Saturday, November 7, 2009 7:44

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 ...

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DAILY POTASSIUM CITRATE MAY PREVENT SEIZURE PATIENTS ON HIGH-FAT DIET FROM KIDNEY STONES

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:42

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 ...

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KIDS’ LOWER IQ SCORES LINKED TO PRENATAL POLLUTION

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:17

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...

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