Hopkins e-News

 HOPKINS MEDICINE e-NEWS

 July 2002

Welcome to Hopkins Medicine e-News, designed to give busy executives easy-to-read reports and useful information from one of the region's largest private employers, Johns Hopkins.

Edward D. Miller, M.D., Dean/CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ronald R. Peterson, President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System

Hopkins again tops U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll."
For the 12th year in a row, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has placed No. 1 in the news magazine's annual ranking of American hospitals, placing in the top ten in 16 of the 17 specialty categories listed.

Liability issues cloud inventors' negotiations for licensing rights.
Licensing a researcher's invention used to be a simple thing. Not any longer. The most contentious issues involve liability for future lawsuits that could arise from products based on the invention.

Hopkins Medicine leases three floors at 100 North Charles Street
A severe space-crunch leads to the downtown relocation of some offices. Hopkins Medicine is looking at leasing 50,000 square feet of additional off-campus space in buildings scattered through the Canton-to-downtown arc.

Sharing "the Hopkins Way" with the world
In the past four years, Johns Hopkins International has led efforts to exchange knowledge and expertise with dozens of global partners through consulting projects, training on the new medical procedures and continuing education courses.

Consulting Globe Trotters
Health Leaders magazine's July article on Johns Hopkins International's efforts to become the consultant of choice to health systems and government ministries in Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East.

Emergency make-over in Howard County
A new, 24,000-square-foot emergency department at Howard County General Hospital – three times larger than the old space -- gives residents in the fast-growing county the latest in medical technology.

Potential liver cancer treatment successfully tested in animals.
Writing in the July 15 issue of Cancer Research, Hopkins scientists report that only cancer cells were killed when a compound was given to rabbits with liver tumors. There are few effective treatments for liver cancer.

Golf deemed OK for most heart patients.
Walking the golf course while pulling a cart provides safe and adequate exercise for most people with heart disease, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins and Wake Forest universities.

Tennis gets an ace for holding off heart disease
Men who start playing tennis in their youth and continue playing the sport for years keep heart disease at bay well into middle-age, a Johns Hopkins study shows.

Nasal ointment reduces infection risk after surgery.
In a large clinical trial, scientists at the University of Iowa and Johns Hopkins found that an antibiotic ointment smeared inside the nose before surgery cut in half infection rates from a widely distributed germ, Staphylococcus aureus.

Bringing About Gender Equity
Correcting the gender balance has become a personal challenge for Dean/CEO Ed Miller, who writes about steps designed to make the faculty and leadership of Hopkins Medicine fully representative of women and minorities.

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