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4 hrs ago | Switched

Caesar Sant, Four-Year-Old Violin Prodigy From North Carolina, Suffers Debilitating Disease

Caesar Sant is a four-year-old child prodigy with a gift for playing the violin .

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology

11 hrs ago | MediLexicon

In The Most Severe Form Of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Enzyme-Activating Antibodies Identified As A Marker

In a series of lab experiments designed to unravel the workings of a key enzyme widely considered a possible trigger of rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that in the most severe cases of the disease, the immune system makes a unique subset of antibodies that have a disease-promoting role.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatology

Fri May 24, 2013

The Baltimore Sun

Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity

Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University 's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular Science, on the airwaves of NPR and in books.

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Related Topix: Education

Voice of America

Expert: US Foreign Policy in 'Retreat'

A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies , said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, George Bush, W., Hamid Karzai

SBWire

hCGTreatments / Diet Doc hCG Diets & Weight Loss Plans Support...

People that are interested in losing weight often go to extremes or follow fad weight loss diets that ultimately fail to provide them with the results they desire.

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The Baltimore Sun

Where are the STEM jobs?

As college graduates head into the real world, even many who majored in science, math, engineering and technology are having a hard time Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM crisis.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, State of the Union, Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors, Opinion

MediLexicon

Treatment For Cocaine Addiction In Animal Model

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unraveled the molecular foundations of cocaine's effects on the brain, and identified a compound that blocks cravings for the drug in cocaine-addicted mice.

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Patch.com

Hopkins Graduation Closes University Parkway

A section of West University Parkway will be closed due to Johns Hopkins University's commencement ceremony.

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Thu May 23, 2013

WBAL-AM Baltimore

Mid-Day Traffic And Construction Report For Thursday, 23 May 2013

University Pkwy will be CLOSED BOTH WAYS between 39th Street and Canterbury Road TODAY from 6 am until 4 pm because of commencement exercises at Johns Hopkins University.

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Related Topix: US National Parks, Baltimore Washington Parkway, Cumberland, MD

Reuters

New advice didn't change breast screening rates

Women in their 40s didn't cut back on mammograms during 2010, the year after a government-backed panel said annual breast cancer screening should be optional for them, says a new study.

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Related Topix: Health, Breast Cancer

The Atlantic

Why Some Evangelicals Are Trying to Stop Obsessing Over Pre-Marital Sex

In a recent summit on human trafficking at Johns Hopkins University, kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart made some surprising remarks about why victims of rape may not try to escape their captors.

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Related Topix: Elizabeth Smart, US Politics, US News

Canada.com

Gift cards, free T-shirts could motivate more Canadians to give "gift of life"

Rewards ranging from lottery tickets and gas cards to a paid day-off work could lure more blood donors and ease chronic shortages of blood for transfusions, an international study led by Canadian researchers suggests.

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Edutopia

Education, the Brain and Common Core State Standards

Understanding even the basics of how the brain learns -- how people perceive, process and remember information -- can help teachers and students successfully meet the requirements of the Common Core State Standards .

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Related Topix: Aromatherapy, Medicine

MediLexicon

Early Identification And Treatment Of Postpartum Depression Can Limit Or Prevent Debilitating Effects

The epigenetic modifications, which alter the way genes function without changing the underlying DNA sequence, can apparently be detected in the blood of pregnant women during any trimester, potentially providing a simple way to foretell depression in the weeks after giving birth, and an opportunity to intervene before symptoms become debilitating.

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Related Topix: Depression, Health

Wall Street Journal

Guest Contribution: Central Banking in Verse

Global central banking has become more complicated than ever. Jessica Einhorn , resident at The Rock Creek Group in Washington and former dean of Johns Hopkins University 's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, finds the Shakespearean undertones in a poem breaking down the situation.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Dundalk Eagle

Gloomy skies do not deter Art Show

Paintings by high school student Kayla Cunningham won first place in the high school art category.

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Related Topix: Dundalk, MD

The Baltimore Sun

Time for greens to embrace nukes

For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Wind Power, Solar Energy, Opinion

Medical Daily

Drugs Are My Anti-Drug: Cocaine Addiction Could Be Cured By Promising New Antidote

A new study identifies a potential remedy for cocaine addiction, already approved for use in humans, which could expedite clinical trials.

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Related Topix: Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health, Medicine, Alcoholism

Science Daily

Enzyme-activating antibodies revealed as marker for most severe form of rheumatoid arthritis

Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine online May 22, the Johns Hopkins team describes how it found the novel antibodies to peptidylarginine deiminase 4, or PAD4, in blood samples from people with aggressive inflammation and connective tissue damage.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatology

Universe Today

Engineering Students Develop a Super "Space Stethoscope"

Even though astronauts receive some general medical training in preparation for a stay aboard the ISS, most of them still aren't medical professionals by any means - and with the inherent difficulties of microgravity and the relatively noisy environment inside the Station, even a simple diagnostic task like listening to a heartbeat can be a ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Issaquah, WA