Precision Medicine Articles

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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

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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.

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Drug Librarian Discovers New Compound That May Thwart Common Surgery Complication

Genetic tests for patients with precursor lesions might reveal those at greatest risk.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.