New York Times
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This op-ed piece mentions that at the turn of the 20th century, William Halsted, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins, promoted a new approach against breast cancer: a technically complicated removal of the affected breast, the lymph nodes in the armpit and the muscles attached to the breast and chest wall.
Washington Post (Reuters)
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Walter Andersen of SAIS is quoted in this Reuters report.
Baltimore Sun
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Lt. Robert McCullough, the new chief spokesman for the county police, is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in management and a master's in business management.
WBAL Radio (Baltimore)
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Lt. Robert McCullough, the new chief spokesman for the county police, is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins
University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in management and a master's in business management.
Modesto Bee
November 20, 2009
JOhns Hopkins angle: This opinion piece, which originated in the New York Times, mentioned a Johns Hopkins study found that hospitalized children who are uninsured are 60 percent more likely to die than those with insurance, presumably because they are less likely to get preventive care and to be taken to the doctor when sick. The study suggested that every year some 1,000 children may die as a consequence of lacking health insurance.
Stockton Record
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa of the School of Medicine, who is also a graduate of San Joaquin Delta College, has been named one of California's most distinguished community college graduates by an advocacy
group.
Smithsonian
November 18, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This magazine article focuses on research by Gregory Glass of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The National (Abu Dhabi)
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Rola Dashti has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: President of the East-West Center, Morrison has a degree from SAIS.
Bloomberg
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: DirecTV Group Inc. hired Michael White as chief executive officer; White has a degree in international relations from JHU.
United Press International
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Prescribing niacin -- a B vitamin -- may not help open arteries, according to a study led by Dr. Joao Lima of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Softpedia.com
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story quotes Tom Krimigis of APL.
ABC News
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports that Johns Hopkins Hospital posted a notice on its Web site reading "The study released by the United States Preventive Services Task Force will not change current practices at Johns Hopkins. We will maintain our recommendations that routine screening for women at average risk for cancer occurs annually from 40 years of age through 80, when it can be altered at that point... please continue to schedule your mammograms annually, check your breasts, and let your physician know when changes occur."
Coast Week (Africa)
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This Xinhua story quotes Michael Klag of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Scripps News Service
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Matthew W. Johnson of the School of Medicine is quoted in this article about salvia.
Washington Examiner
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The County Council on Tuesday voted to approve a light rail route through Science City, a Johns Hopkins University-proposed 60,000-job complex in Gaithersburg.
South Asia Mail
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Maternal depression can worsen asthma symptoms in children, says a new study led by Kristin Riekert, pediatric psychologist at the Johns Hopkins Adherence Research Center, according to this IANS piece.
Torrington Record Citizen (CT.)
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story mentions that in 2002. Leone obtained a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, where he completed an Administration Program.
Sun2Surf (Malaysia)
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This column was authored by Siti Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah, who is pursuing a Masters Degree at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Baltimore Sun
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Parents interested in having their children participate in the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth have until Nov. 30 to enroll them.
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: New Jersey hospitals have teamed with leading national experts in several important initiatives, including Johns Hopkins University's Quality and Safety Research Group.
Connecticut Post
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: US HIFU's owner Steve Puckett said that his company has "a lineup that includes professors from Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Los Angeles."
Maryland Daily Record
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Brief notes that the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School will move into the new Legg Mason headquarters building in Harbor East.
United Press International
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports that researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine -- led by Lauren Berkow -- say they have developed a protocol designed to help physicians quickly treat such anesthetized patients that has dramatically reduced the need for high-risk emergency surgical procedures to open obstructed airways.
The Money Times
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This United Press International story reports that researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine -- led by Lauren Berkow -- say they have developed a protocol designed to help physicians quickly treat such anesthetized patients that has dramatically reduced the need for high-risk emergency surgical procedures to open obstructed airways.
Laboratory Equipment
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Scientists at the School of Medicine have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step toward crafting pharmaceuticals to fight these often life-endangering conditions in a new way.
Reading Eagle
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Under the "Notes" column is a brief reporting that Johns Hopkins sophomore defensive back Sam Eagleson, a
Gov. Mifflin grad, will be in action Saturday when the Blue Jays face undefeated Hampden-Sydney (10-0) in the first round. He leads Hopkins (8-2) with four interceptions.
New York Times
November 19, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This obituary quotes Jacques Grosset, a professor at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Washington Post
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Kay III graduated in 1957 with a business and industrial management degree from Johns Hopkins University, where he also played lacrosse.
Baltimore Sun
November 20, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Currie earned a master's degree in education from the Johns Hopkins University in 1956.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS
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The Washington Post (AP)
November 20. 2009
This article features the decision by the University of California Board of Regents' approval of a 32 percent fee increase for
students attending the state's premier public schools.
Inside Higher Education
November 20, 2009
American universities continued to increase the number of doctoral degrees they award -- but just barely -- in 2008. And if it
weren't for biology, there would have been virtually no increase at all.
The New York Times
November 20, 2009
As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every
professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent.
Inside Higher Education
November 20, 2009
More than two dozen seniors at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania are in danger of not being able to graduate this spring
because they were obese as freshmen.
The Washington Post
November 20, 2009
An independent report says that the new D.C. community college must break free of the University of the District of Columbia
if it is to be embraced as "credible and legitimate" by a business community that has lost faith in UDC.
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