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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: An Early Warning System for Brain Pressure Spikes in Hospitalized Patients

Millions of people are admitted to hospital intensive care units following traumatic brain injuries, strokes, brain bleeds and other conditions.

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Using Social Determinants of Health to Study Health Outcomes

More and more in medicine, when considering treatment plans, clinicians are taking into account patients’ social determinants of health (SDOH) — nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes.

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Using Genomic Information to Boost Cancer Care

People with cancer undergo various types of testing during their diagnosis and treatment. It’s common, for example, for tumor tissue that was removed during a biopsy or surgery to be sent for genomic analysis — a study of the tumor’s genetic makeup.

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Predicting Alzheimer’s Onset

Alzheimer’s disease still has limited treatments. But being able to predict when a person with mild cognitive impairment will transition to a more serious dementia can help provide individuals and their families with a timeline and trajectory ...

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Monitoring Blood Clot Prevention

About 450,000 patients who are hospitalized each year in the U.S. wind up with a potentially preventable venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clot. It could result from time spent lying in a bed, surgery, or injury to a vein caused by ...

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Kidney Cell Atlas Charts Path to Better Treatments

When the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases published the most comprehensive atlas of the human kidney in summer 2023, it included information contributed by the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of ...

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Fast Facts About Precision Medicine: How Do Patients Recover Following Stroke?

Wearable activity trackers could provide clinicians with clues to how survivors of stroke are faring during their recovery.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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Fast Facts on Precision Medicine: Research on Myositis, an Inflammatory Disease

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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.

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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.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Celebrates Opening of The Johns Hopkins National Proton Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, in Collaboration With Children’s National

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.

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New Precision Medicine Tools Help Clinicians Provide Tailored Care

Big data helps clinicians provide tailored treatment.

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Imagine and Infrastructure

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, ...

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Varied Fronts

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.

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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.

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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.

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Matching Patient with Treatment

New Johns Hopkins analytics platform increases physicians’ ability to personalize medicine.

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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.

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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