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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Active Care Model Predicts Disease Course for Prostate Cancers
For many men, prostate cancers are extremely slow-growing — so much so that they often can be monitored periodically through blood tests, biopsies and MRI without necessarily needing treatment. Johns Hopkins experts have directed an extensive active ...
Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Personalizing Care for Scleroderma, an Autoimmune Disease
The autoimmune disease scleroderma — which involves hardening of the skin — can affect multiple organs, from the heart to the lungs to the gastrointestinal tract and more. Rheumatologists who treat patients with the condition have to factor ...
Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: When Can My Infant in the NICU Go Home?
One of the biggest questions that parents ask when their baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is when the infant can go home, says Khyzer Aziz, M.D., an assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the Neonatal Precision ...
Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Preventing Sudden Death from Heart Disorders
Since 1999, cardiology experts at Johns Hopkins have run a dedicated clinic to manage and treat patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a leading cause of sudden death among young athletes that also can affect ...
Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Research on Eye Disease
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of central vision loss in people over 50.
Developing an App to Decipher Erythema Migrans
Johns Hopkins experts seek to use artificial intelligence to help diagnose Lyme disease earlier and avoid serious complications for patients.
Harnessing the Power of Data and Precision Medicine for Rehabilitation
At Johns Hopkins, the new Precision Rehabilitation Center of Excellence will develop personalized diagnostics and interventions.
Pediatric and adult cancer patients in the District of Columbia and elsewhere will now have access to one of the most advanced, lifesaving proton technologies offered in the U.S.
New Precision Medicine Tools Help Clinicians Provide Tailored Care
Big data helps clinicians provide tailored treatment.
A virtual model of the heart developed by biomedical engineer Natalia Trayanova and her team promises to personalize cardiac treatment and improve care. Plus: Oncospace eliminates the learning curve to better tailor radiation therapy, ...
Fine-tuning therapy for multiple sclerosis, why cystic fibrosis requires a full-court press, a genetically unique CF patient, tracking moods via texts and more.
Hip Fractures May be an Early Sign of Alzheimer’s Disease for Older People
Johns Hopkins researchers say they found biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in spinal fluid samples of older patients hospitalized to repair hip fractures.
Muscle Gene Mutations Implicated in Human Nasal/Sinus Cancer
Johns Hopkins researchers report they unexpectedly found the same genetic change–one in a gene involved in muscle formation–in five of the tumors.
Matching Patient with Treatment
New Johns Hopkins analytics platform increases physicians’ ability to personalize medicine.
Blood Diseases Cured With Bone Marrow Transplant
Johns Hopkins researchers have found a new treatment method could offer a significantly higher chance of a cure for patients with severe and deadly inherited blood disorders.
Inherited Mutations May Play a Role in Pancreatic Cancer Development
A Johns Hopkins “drug librarian” developed a new compound as a potential treatment for a common surgery complication
Johns Hopkins Experts Know What Will Make Precision Medicine Successful for Population Health
Experts at Johns Hopkins call for a redefinition of precision medicine to ensure its success, and propose a new approach.
Drug Librarian Discovers New Compound That May Thwart Common Surgery Complication
Genetic tests for patients with precursor lesions might reveal those at greatest risk.
Study: Adolescent Female Blood Donors At Risk For Iron Deficiency And Associated Anemia
Female adolescent blood donors are more likely to have low iron stores and iron deficiency anemia than adult female blood donors and nondonors.
PET Scans May Optimize Tuberculosis Meningitis Treatments and Personalize Care, Study Finds
Johns Hopkins researchers used PET scans and a rabbit model to show how too little of TB drug reaches brain TB lesions
Widely Used Reference for the Human Genome is Missing 300 Million Bits of DNA
Experts say additional reference genomes from different populations are needed for research.
Algorithm Finds Patterns in Antibodies for Precision Medicine
An algorithm developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins makes it easier and faster to spot similarities in how patients’ bodies respond to autoimmune diseases.
New Partnership to Improve Patient Diagnosis, Care and Outcomes
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have joined in an effort to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of disease by using rigorous data analysis and systems engineering practices.