HOPKINS MEDICINE e-NEWS (December 2003)
A round-up of news from Johns Hopkins Medicine that gives busy executives easy-to-read reports and useful information from one of the region's largest private employers.
___________________________________________________________ How can medical errors be curbed or our hospitals and communities be better prepared to respond to disasters? Around the nation, officials are turning to Johns Hopkins Medicine experts for the answers – answers developed first to protect those living in our region. You can read about these and other recent Hopkins Medicine activities, including a major bond sale, below. Please let us know if you have questions or comments about any of these topics. We welcome your suggestions. Have a safe, healthy, prosperous new year. -- 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
HOPKINS TO DEVISE NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE PLANS
Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) receives $3.5 million in federal grants for response plans to bioterrorism.PATIENT SAFETY EXPERTS WIN GRANT TO ENHANCE MICHIGAN ICU OPERATIONS
Hopkins gets $1 million grant to reduce medical errors and length of intensive-care stays in Michigan hospitals.
Also: Read about success in reducing length of stay in Hopkins departments. TELEMEDICINE GOES TO PRISON AND OVERSEAS
Hopkins carves out niche in telemedicine with HIV prison treatment program, video conferencing lecture series and teleconsulting overseas. GOING TO THE BOND MARKET
In the first major step toward financing 1.3 million square feet of new hospital buildings, Hopkins Hospital took advantage of low interest rates to borrow $100 million at 5.14 percent. BROADWAY OVERLOOK PROJECT DRAWS A CROWD
A community of 166 townhouses and apartments on old Church Home & Hospital property attracts Hopkins nurses,house staff and graduate students.
Also: Read about the state’s successful “Live Where You Work” program. TRAVEL MEDICINE SERVICE OFFERS ADVICE, IMMUNIZATIONS
Business travelers, relief agency workers and others can get shots and advisory sessions on health risks and cultural differences abroad from Hopkins’ Travel Medicine Consultation and Immunization Service.
POBATIONARY ACCREDITATION FOR RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Regulatory panel upgrades status of Hopkins’ internal medicine residency program.
SCIENCE AND MEDICAL NEWS
CLINICAL USE OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS IN JEOPARDY
Human embryonic stem cell lines now eligible for federal research funds are not suitable for future clinical trials, say scientists, philosophers and lawyers on Hopkins panel.DAILY VITAMINS COULD AVERT VISION LOSS
Research finds people at risk for advanced age-related macular degeneration might avoid vision loss through daily supplements of antioxidants and zinc. ASPIRIN NOT ENOUGH TO PREVENT CLOTS IN SOME PATIENTS
An aspirin a day may need reinforcement to totally prevent blood clots among patients with chest pain, a Hopkins study shows. SAVING ENERGIZER MONEY
Chronic-pain researchers devise computerized system that automates electrode pulse in spinal cord stimulation – and extends by 50 percent life of battery set-up that costs $15,000.
COMMENTARY
NIH ROADMAP
University President Bill Brody discusses interdisciplinary approach to research that Elias Zerhouni has unveiled at National Institutes of Health.
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