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The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University are recruiting a Head of Library Systems.

U.S. researchers say keeping a cart of supplies and medicines handy reduces the need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and their colleagues have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks.

At Ace Hardware in Waverly, customers have been Johns Hopkins University students who need paint to touch up a room or Greenmount Avenue rehabbers who need to replace a broken drill.

Migraine headaches more than double the chances of the most common kind of stroke, which occurs when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by a blood clot or plaque buildup.

Taking the B vitamin niacin offers no additional benefit to seniors with coronary artery disease who are already prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, U.S. researchers say.

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Studies prove what women have always believed to be true - you can die of a broken heart.

People who suffer migraines have more than double the risk of ischemic stroke, and the risk is especially high in women, a new study has found.

Young athletes can have serious heart defects that could lead to sudden death. A new study from Johns Hopkins recommends performing EKG and echocardiogram rather than just electrocardiogram to increase the chances of finding hidden heart defects - a cause of 3,000 deaths a year in young adults that can occur from heart rhythm disturbance .

To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according to new research from heart experts at Johns Hopkins.

Share + Nov 13, 2009 7:35 pm US/Eastern Reporting Weijia Jiang BALTIMORE It's a crash that infuriated the Johns Hopkins Community.

How careful do patients have to be following nuclear diagnostic tests, or after radiation for the treatment of cancer? How long do these nuclear materials remain in the body? And how long will this radiation remain detectable and transmissible to others? A report from Johns Hopkins University says that patients, following radiation, must be made ...

Many children with chronic kidney disease who show normal blood pressure readings at the doctora s office have high blood pressure when tested at home, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology .

Nicholas F. Walters saw a white pickup truck weaving between lanes. He tried to follow the erratic vehicle but later told a Baltimore police operator, "I couldn't keep up with it." He noticed a company decal on the back of the Ford F250 and called the number, but a representative denied it was theirs.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 07 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST CEL-SCI Corporation , a developer of vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and a late-stage oncology company, announced today that an Institutional Review Board of The ...

President Obama waves from Air Force One prior to departing Thursday from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

Opening statements are slated to begin Thursday in the first of two corruption trials for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, the first African-American woman to lead the city.

Students at Mother Cabrini High School exercise during a weekly session of a health and fitness program.

Newswise - Mom's Mood Matters in Child's Asthma Care - Depression is significant among mothers of chronically ill children.