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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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BMI Calculator

Rather than relying only on the bathroom scale to tell you if you're overweight, experts say you should also know your body mass index (BMI). BMI takes into account not just your weight, but also your ...
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Mohs Surgery

Mohs surgery is a precise and effective surgical technique used to treat common skin cancers and some rare forms of skin cancer. The goals of this treatment are to remove the cancer, minimize the ...
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9 Benefits of Yoga

If you’ve done your “downward dog” yoga pose today, you’re probably feeling more relaxed. Regardless of your level of yoga expertise, if you’re practicing regularly, you can feel better from head to ...
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Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

The Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is directed by Constantine G. Lyketsos, M.D, M.H.S. and is a central component of the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and ...
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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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The Brain-Gut Connection

If you’ve ever “gone with your gut” to make a decision or felt “butterflies in your stomach” when nervous, you’re likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain. Hidden in the ...