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Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Doctors Cure Young Patient of Seizures Using Keto Diet

When she was 3 years old, Alana “Lani” Silverberg was eating a cookie when she started turning blue. Her mom, Sara, thought ...
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New NIH-Funded Johns Hopkins Medicine Study Finds High-Risk Individuals Who Have Mild Dilatation of the Pancreatic Duct Have Increased Risk for Pancreatic Cancer

“We are identifying pancreas duct dilatation as an early sign of pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals even when there ...
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Launch Projects Under the Cancer AI Alliance

The IDH gene was first discovered by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers in 2008. That discovery, along with a ...
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Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, Who Discovered Molecular ‘Scissors’ to Cut DNA, Dies at 94

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine alumnus and former faculty member Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., whose 1978 Nobel Prize ...
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Study of Babies Links Prematurity, Need for NICU Care with Childhood Hypertension

The researchers conclude that the findings underscore the need to screen prematurely born babies — and, in particular, those ...
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November Is Palliative Care Month

Experts say there is a growing intersection of patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses and addiction medicine, and in response, Johns Hopkins Medicine is now teaching generalist addiction ...
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Raising Diabetes Awareness: Johns Hopkins Medicine Adult and Pediatric Experts Available to Discuss

Adult and pediatric experts from @HopkinsMedicine, @EndoHopkins, and @HopkinsKids are available all month to raise diabetes awareness and discuss how the disease impacts adults and children.
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Protein Plays Unexpected Dual Role in Protecting Brain from Oxidative Stress Damage

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that the enzyme biliverdin reductase A (BVRA) plays a direct protective role against oxidative stress in neurons, independent of its role producing the ...
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Turmeric Benefits

Turmeric is a deep, golden-orange spice known for adding color, flavor and nutrition to foods. A relative of ginger, turmeric comes from the rhizome (root) of a native Asian plant and has been used in ...
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Sick Sinus Syndrome

What is sick sinus syndrome? Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is a disease in which the heart's natural pacemaker located in the upper right heart chamber (right atrium) becomes damaged and is no longer able ...
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New Study Finds Evidence of Hepatitis C Virus in Cells Lining Human Brain

Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied viral infections with behavioral symptoms in these disorders, but scientists ...
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Legionnaire's Disease

What is Legionnaire’s disease? Legionnaire’s disease is a type of pneumonia caused by a group of bacteria called Legionella. Most healthy people exposed to Legionella do not get sick, but ...