Hopkins Medicine Magazine (logo) Fall 2025

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Magazine

Emerging from the Fog

By going beyond the bounds of conventional care, clinicians in Hopkins' personalized pain program help patients manage pain without relying on heavy opioid use.

Conceptual illustration of pain, colorful shapes

Articles in this Issue 

  • A Lifeline in Huntington’s

    Patients and their families with this neurodegenerative condition — cruel in its genetic certainty — find support, community and hope at the Johns Hopkins HD center.

    An illustration of a family. Arrows surround them.
  • Measure by Measure

    Specialists here are leading national efforts to define standards for music-related injuries and health care.

    A stick figure plays a realistic tuba while a stick figure doctor listens with a stethoscope.
  • Power Surge

    How measuring rhythmic waves on the membranes of cancer cells could yield insights to better stage cancer — and develop drugs to slow or halt its spread.

    Glycolytic waves drive and fuel cancer cell migration. The image, captured with a high-powered microscope over 9-minute intervals, is color-coded from early to late time points showing wave activity (green, blue, purple, pink, red). Credit: David Huiwang Zhan
  • A Link in the Chain

    Decades after his training at Johns Hopkins, a seasoned preceptor continues to share the insights he gained from medicine’s “founding fathers.”

    A younger Victor McKusick, seated at center, with Johns Hopkins trainees, ca. 1965.

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