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Articles in this Issue

  • The ‘Majority Subsidy’

    What happens when a few faculty members are tasked with taking on most of the work of building diversity and inclusion?

    An illAn illustration of a gloved hand holding a pair of surgical scissors while another hand holds a medical chart, a reflex hammer, a pen and medical scissors. ustration of a gloved hand holding a pair of surgical scissors while another hand holds a medical chart, a stethoscope, a pen and medical scissors.
  • Make Way for the Surgineer

    In today’s increasingly complex OR, a new member of the surgical team is well-equipped to improve patient safety and workflow.

    In today’s increasingly complex OR, a new member of the surgical team is well-equipped to improve patient safety and workflow.
  • Unflinching Accounts

    This issue's note from the editor, plus letters from our readers.

    Editor, Sue DePasquale
  • ‘Immunoengineering’ Promises Major Advances

    Engineers have long been collaborating with scientists to develop new medical devices and tools, but recent advances in technology have helped scientists expand engineering concepts into fields once the sole domain of specialists

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  • One Health Care Community One Book Initiative Launched

    The yearlong One Health Care Community One Book initiative, which kicked off in November, is an extension of AfterWards, a narrative medicine program that Small co-founded in 2014 that brings Johns Hopkins clinicians together to discuss, write about and reflect on a piece of literature or art with a medical theme

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  • Loss Compounded

    Should we reexamine policy advising women living with HIV against breastfeeding?

    Illustration of woman cradling a baby in her arms
  • A Promising Outlook

    Surveying the landscape here, there’s much to celebrate.

    A person looking through binoculars. In the backround are stars, microscopes and other scientific images
  • Tales from the Trenches

    Widespread abuse of opioids is a scourge in American life — and the latest battlefield of a failed “war on drugs.”

    The book cover of the book Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • Compassion, Not Judgment 

    The Comprehensive Care Practice, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, was established at a time when Baltimoreans struggling with HIV and addiction had few options for health care.  

    A photo shows Michael Fingerhood.
  • The Road to Stockholm

    For his discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen adaptability, longtime faculty member Gregg Semenza has earned medicine’s greatest honor.

    Nobel Prize winner Greg Semenza signs autograph in Stockholm.
  • Inaugural Dean

    J. Mario Molina (fellow; HS, internal medicine, 1984–87) aims to change health care education by focusing on the intersection of multicultural competency, population health research and commercial innovation. Among the missions of the new medical school will be to address the shortage of primary care physicians in Southern California.

    Headshot photo of J. Mario Molina.
  • Pediatrics Powerhouse

    In October, Barbara Howard ’75 joined the ranks of Johns Hopkins medical luminaries who have received the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) C. Anderson Aldrich Award for outstanding contributions to developmental and behavioral pediatrics.

    Headshot photo of Barbara Howard.
  • The Ties That Bind

    Although 15 years have passed since cancer geneticist Alberto Bardelli left the laboratory of Bert Vogelstein ’74 to return to his native Italy as head of the molecular oncology program at the University of Torino, his alma mater, he still wears the Johns Hopkins lanyard to which his school of medicine identification card was attached. It now holds his University of Torino badge.

    Headshot photo of Alberto Bardelli.
  • Winter 2020: In Memoriam

    Paying tribute to lives well-lived by alumni of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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  • Proton Power

    At the Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center, the action starts in a huge particle accelerator known as a synchrotron, where protons spin at ultra-fast speeds before making their journey to treatment rooms. Here's a look at how the process unfolds.

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