Hopkins Medicine Magazine (logo) Spring/Summer 2026

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Magazine

Suicide Under the Microscope

Through psychological autopsies, Paul Nestadt aims to improve suicide prevention efforts by finding commonalities among those who died.

Conceptual illustration of suicide using bold colors and lines

Articles in this Issue

  • Free Thinkers

    Students in the XDBio Ph.D. program forge their own paths in choosing the classes and labs that will help them answer their research questions.

    Conceptual illustration intertwining lines representing free thinking
  • Pollution’s Fallout: Brain Disease?

    New evidence points to a possible molecular connection between air pollution and an increased risk of Lewy body dementia.

    Conceptual illustration of brain with black smoke around symbolizing pollution
  • A Call for Radical Collaboration

    Johns Hopkins clinical leaders are leading reform of the prior authorization process by bringing together insurers, policymakers, health systems and medical societies from all over the country. Their daunting goal? “Alignment across stakeholders.”

    Illustration showing a doctor with a patient
  • A Visionary in Medical Illustration

    Annette Smith Burgess, Wilmer Eye Institute’s first ophthalmic illustrator, captured the minutiae of the eye with unparalleled accuracy, creating works of high educational value — and beauty.

    Burgess also served as an instructor in the Art as Applied to Medicine program, beginning in the mid-1940s.

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