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Archives - Winter 2014
Winter 2014


Articles in this Issue
Features
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Epilepsy patients are lending a hand-and their heads-to advance the development of neurally controlled prosthetics.
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Justin Hanes and others are packaging drugs at the nanoscale to reach places in the body that were once out of reach.
Resident Education
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Home visits and a team care approach are just the start for Johns Hopkins internal medicine residents, who are gaining the skills they need to better manage chronic illness-and keep patients out of the hospital.
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Have restrictions on resident work hours gone too far, "compressing" intern training time and imperiling the educational mission?
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A new initiative is pushing residents to "choose wisely" when ordering procedures, with the goal of boosting patient safety and saving money.
Letters
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Lost opportunities.
Circling the Dome
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Website casts a critical eye on medical mobile apps.
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New center is aimed at enhancing health of local Latino community.
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An innovative program prepares lab techs for careers in the burgeoning biotech industry.
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Tapping everyday citizens to inform hospital protocols in the event of a pandemic.
Alpha Docs
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Fader is innovating the improve surgical outcomes for women.
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Forged by war, Ficke brings new expertise to Orthopaedic Surgery.
Medical Rounds
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Solving barriers to weight loss among the mentally ill.
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Harnessing stem cells to attack deadly brain cancer.
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New light on vitamin D's role in MS.
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Common practice could pose risk, study finds.
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Study finds no threat to memory.
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Colitis patients see improvement through fecal transplant.
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Correctly diagnosing vascular malformations can be tricky.
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Diving could mark sea change for those with paraplegia.
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LevelCheck aims to prevent surgical error during spine surgery.
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New findings could help in "unlearning" to be afraid.
Hopkins Reader
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DeAngelis explores the importance of professionalism among members of the medical team.
Class Notes
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Simons heads the world's largest funding program for young cancer scientists.
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Srinivasan is leading the charge to rethink antibiotics use.
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Walensky is dedicated to improving HIV medicine.
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In Memoriam
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In pursuit of scientific discovery, Hubel kept his sense of fun.
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Freeman bucked convention to tackle childhood epilepsy.
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Candace Pert made landmark findings in brain biochemistry.
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Wilson Lo profoundly influenced the field.
Alumni
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From small-town Mississippi sprang a successful surgeon who has endowed a scholarship fund to support Hopkins medical students.
Second Opinion
Post-Op
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Society's changing needs call for more leadership in primary care.