BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, SAFER
HOPKINS MEDICINE E-NEWS (April 2005)
A round-up of news from Johns Hopkins Medicine for busy executives.
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TOM CLANCY, MED SCHOOL DEANS - AND YOU
What do Tom Clancy, Baltimore residents and medical school deans around the country have in common? They’ve all recently given Johns Hopkins Medicine a resounding vote of confidence. Read more below about their actions and about what our faculty and staff have done to instill that confidence. You’ll also find a provocative essay by JHU President Bill Brody on an effective way for the nation to control its soaring health care costs.
We welcome your suggestions and hope you enjoy reading these reports.
-- Edward D. Miller, M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty, CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine-- Ronald R. Peterson, President, Johns Hopkins Health System, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE
ONCE AGAIN, HOPKINS’ MEDICAL SCHOOL RANKS NO. 2 IN NATION
Deans and faculty across the nation rate Hopkins’ School of Medicine No. 2 (after Harvard) in U.S. News & World Report survey. Hopkins is No. 1 in Internal Medicine; Geriatrics; Drug/Alcohol Abuse, and Biomedical Engineering.
Best-selling writer Tom Clancy pledges $2 million to establish a professorship in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute.
CHILDREN’S CENTER RADIOTHON TOPS $1 MILLION
A four-day radio fund-raising drive produces $1,011,000 for the Johns Hopkins Chldren’s Center. Over the years, the Radiothon has raised $8 million.
PHASE ONE OF COMPUTER ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM GOES SMOOTHLY
Initial stages of installing a provider order entry system to enhance patient safety proceeds smoothly: No reported errors in over a million medication and lab work orders.
SCIENCE REPORT
HUMAN TRIALS BEGIN TO REPAIR HEART DAMAGE WITH DONOR STEM CELLS
Hopkins researchers commence a groundbreaking clinical trial testing the safety of injecting adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged by heart attacks. This trial quickly follows promising results in animal research.
By comparing the human X chromosome to genetic information from chimpanzees, rats and mice, scientists at Hopkins and in India uncover dozens of new genes, which should speed research into diseases linked to the X chromosome.
STUDIES BEGIN TO FIGHT TB-HIV IN AFRICA AND BRAZIL
The Hopkins-based Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic, funded by the Gates Foundation, starts three studies on novel techniques to control HIV-related TB in countries hard hit by the dual epidemics.
KEEPING BUSY MAY REDUCE ALZHEIMER’S RISK
Participation by older people in a variety of activities may be more important than frequency, duration or intensity of physical activity in warding off dementia, according to Hopkins researchers.
COMMENTARY
THE DYNAMIC HOCKEY STICK
University President Bill Brody uses ice hockey to illustrate how delaying the onset of chronic illness is an effective way to control health care costs.
IMMUNE RESPONSE TO CERVICAL CANCER
Connie Trimble, director of the Cervical Dysplasia Center, talks about a vaccine that could stop human papillomavirus infection from turning into cervical cancer - the second leading cause of cancer death in women.
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