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Embracing the Rainbow
At Johns Hopkins and across the nation, initiatives are underway to help physicians better meet the health care needs of today’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients. Some say such efforts are long overdue.
Unlikely Lobbyists
When Medicare coverage for a widely used assistive hearing device was threatened, a team of Johns Hopkins medical experts stepped into the breach.
The Road to Cancer Risk
Some two-thirds of the variation in cancer risk across tissues can be explained by “bad luck,” according to scientists Bert Vogelstein and Cristian Tomasetti, who use a road trip analogy to illustrate their findings.
Motility Mysteries: Solved!
For this team of medical sleuths, no case is too gut-wrenching to take on.
Four-Legged Frontier
A new high-tech imaging center for furry patients could ultimately benefit human patients.
Departments
Circling the Dome
If the worst happens, getting serious with Semper Fi, tuning in to tranquility, easing the end, shooting for the stars and more.
Medical Rounds
The freeze is on, seeing the light, thinking small, a urine test for bladder cancer, heart failure culprit collared, asthma’s new hot zones and more.
Hopkins Reader
Daniel Todes unveils the genuine Pavlov. plus: Charting the health of the nation’s first ladies; and Howard W. Jones, now 104, looks back on his quest to achieve in vitro fertilization in the U.S.
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In Focus
It's a Match
After years of schooling, countless applications and many nerve-racking interviews, fourth-year medical students gathered on March 20 in the Armstrong Medical Education Building for the time-honored tradition of Match Day. Shrieks, hugs and tears of joy were the order of the day as, precisely at noon, members of the Class of 2015 tore open envelopes to discover which hospital and specialty program accepted them for their residency.
Horizons
Crystal Ball on Frailty?
The frail elderly are easy to spot: they tend to be thin and weak, with little energy and a slow and unsteady gait. first recognized as a medical condition in 2001, frailty is too often the beginning of the end.
Now a Johns Hopkins team has found that the amount of mitochondrial DNA in peoples’ blood directly relates to how frail they are medically. this DNA may prove to be a useful predictor of overall risk of frailty and death from any cause some 10 to 15 years before symptoms appear— giving doctors the head start they need to improve fitness in at-risk individuals with drugs or lifestyle changes.
"We don’t know enough yet to say whether the relationship is one of correlation or causation, but either way, mitochondrial DNA could be a very useful biomarker in the field of aging," says Dan Arking, associate professor of genetic medicine. the scientists reported on their work in the online Journal of Molecular Medicine.
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