News tagged with johns hopkins university school of medicine
New hope for cancer comes straight from the heart
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Digitalis-based drugs like digoxin have been used for centuries to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure and are still in use today. In the Dec. 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Diagnostic errors: The new focus of patient safety experts
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. ...
Young smokers increase risk for multiple sclerosis
Feb 23, 2009 |
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People who start smoking before age 17 may increase their risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 61st Annual Meeting ...
Prostate specific antigen testing may be unnecessary for some older men
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Certain men age 75 to 80 are unlikely to benefit from routine prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing, according to a Johns Hopkins study published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Urology.
Kidney transplant survival can be long-term for people with HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 19, 2009 |
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A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant ...
