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Aortic Stenosis in Children
What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...
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Drug Combination Prompts Immune Response in Some Resistant Pancreatic Cancers
In a small subset of those patients, the combination resulted in a strong response with tumor shrinkage and no disease ...
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Class Statistics
The 70 women and 50 men of the 2023 entering class have performed at a high level academically and scored in the top few percentiles on standardized tests. And while the fact that the majority of ...
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Explore Relationships Between Gut Microbiota and Colorectal Cancer
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, can increase the risk of colorectal cancer by as much as three times. A team of gastroenterologists at Johns Hopkins ...
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Computational Tool Developed to Predict Immunotherapy Outcomes for Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Using computational tools, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a method to assess which patients with metastatic ...
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Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
What is staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome in children? Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a serious skin infection. The infection causes peeling skin over large parts of the body. It ...
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Johns Hopkins and Family of Henrietta Lacks Break Ground on Building Named in Honor of Henrietta Lacks
Baltimore (Oct. 28, 2024) – The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, together with descendants of Henrietta Lacks, broke ground today on the future site of the building named in honor ...
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...
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Johns Hopkins Swallowing Center Offers Patients Advanced Approaches
Head and neck cancers, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders and aging are among the various conditions that can cause difficulties with swallowing. For people impacted, experts at the Johns ...
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Lymph Node-Like Structures May Trigger the Demise of Cancer Tumors
A newly described stage of a lymph node-like structure seen in liver tumors after presurgical immunotherapy may be vital to successfully treating patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to a ...
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New Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have long been without effective treatment options. Longstanding treatments such as corticosteroids and exon-skipping therapies can prolong the time it ...
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Two Johns Hopkins Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Two faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an ...