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Meet Johns Hopkins Children’s Center’s First Facility Dogs

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is like a dog with two tails! The children’s hospital now has its first full-time facility dogs. The two dogs, Rosalina and Yoda, are part of the Child Life ...
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Postpartum Thyroiditis

Postpartum thyroiditis happens when a person’s thyroid gland becomes inflamed within 1 year of delivering a baby or having a miscarriage or abortion. This condition affects a small percentage of ...
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Ectopic Pregnancy

What are the symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy? Women with an ectopic pregnancy may have irregular bleeding and pelvic or belly (abdominal) pain. The pain is often just on one side. Symptoms often ...
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Howler Monkeys Began Eating Leaves 13 Million Years Ago, Changing Course of Primate History in South America

• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...
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Adults with Concurrent Hearing and Vision Loss Report Barriers and Challenges in Navigating Complex, Everyday Environments

Although hearing loss was linked to sound localization difficulties, the researchers found adults who used hearing aids did ...
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Johns Hopkins Scientists Engineer Nanoparticles Able to Seek and Destroy Diseased Immune Cells

Immune system cells can be engineered outside of the body in a type of therapy called CAR-T. Now, Johns Hopkins scientists are developing ways to sidestep such cell manufacturing with a biodegradable ...
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From Patients to Players: How Video Games Transform Hospital Stays at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

Video games are often seen as a pastime for kids, but at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, video games do much more than help kids pass time. Within the Children’s Center Child Life Department, there ...
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Johns Hopkins Medicine-led consortium receives $24 million federal grant to find hepatitis B cure

Transmission electron micrograph showing hepatitis B virus particles (colored orange). The Johns Hopkins Medicine-led ...
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New Study Offers Strong Evidence of Elevated Heart Failure Risk in Adults with Prediabetes, Hypertension and Subclinical Heart Injury or Stress

A @HopkinsMedicine-led study offers strong evidence that adults with coexisting prediabetes and hypertension are at a higher ...
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Scientists Find Potential New Drug Target for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders

Scientists say their findings on how a critical brain protein functions may solve a decades-long mystery in molecular neuroscience. .@HopkinsMedicine scientists identified a potential target for drugs ...
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Johns Hopkins Study: Newborn Male Circumcision Rates in U.S. Dropped Between 2012 and 2022

Research letter in @JAMAPediatrics (bit.ly/42jDKqQ) from @HopkinsMedicine @JHUPath & @JohnsHopkinsSPH shows U.S. rates for neonatal male circumcision dropped significantly from 2012-2022. @AaronTobian ...