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St. John's wort relieves symptoms of major depression
Oct 08, 2008 |
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New research provides support for the use of St. John's wort extracts in treating major depression. A Cochrane Systematic Review backs up previous research that showed the plant extract is effective in treating mild to moderate ...
Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2009 |
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The Internet has spawned a virtual subculture of "johns" who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan ...
HIV subtype linked to increased likelihood for dementia
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Patients infected with a particular subtype of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are more likely to develop dementia than patients with other subtypes, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers shows. The finding, reported ...
New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...
Setting priorities for patient-safety efforts will mean hard choices
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Is it more urgent for hospitals, doctors and nurses to focus resources on preventing the thousands of falls that injure hospitalized patients each year, or to home in on preventing rare but dramatic instances of wrong-side ...
Consumer electronics can help improve patient health
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Electronic tools and technology applications for consumers can help improve health care processes, such as adherence to medication and clinical outcomes like smoking cessation, according to a report by researchers at the ...
Researchers make stem cells from developing sperm
Aug 06, 2009 |
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The promise of stem cell therapy may lie in uncovering how adult cells revert back into a primordial, stem cell state, whose fate is yet to be determined. Now, cell scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ...
Vaccine blocks malaria transmission in lab experiments
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have for the first time produced a malarial protein (Pfs48/45) in the proper conformation and quantity to generate a significant immune response in mice and non-human ...
Predicting the return of prostate cancer: New study betters the odds of success
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Cancer experts at Johns Hopkins say a study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has shown that a three-way combination of measurements has the best chance yet of predicting disease metastasis.
Patient perception is vital when reporting medical errors
Sep 01, 2009 |
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When reporting medical errors, patients' perceptions of their physicians' disclosure may be key to gaining their trust, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. However, a positive ...
Need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients reduced
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy may make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report ...
Burned out, depressed surgeons more likely to commit more major medical errors
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Surgeons who are burned out or depressed are more likely to say they had recently committed a major error on the job, according to the largest study to date on physician burnout. The new findings suggest that the mental well-being ...
Cooperative learning methods top list of effective approaches for secondary mathematics
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Cooperative learning methods have been found to be most effective in raising the math scores of middle and high school students, according to a comprehensive research review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's ...
Physicians have less respect for obese patients, study suggests
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about ...
Migraine raises risk of most common form of stroke
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Pooling results from 21 studies, involving 622,381 men and women, researchers at Johns Hopkins have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: ...
