A Black couple’s home was undervalued by $300,000. Now the US is investigating Two Johns Hopkins professors say loanDepot lowballed them on their Baltimore home due to their race The Guardian - US · Mar 14, 2023
Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won? It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023
Computers powered by human brain cells to be made using 'organoid intelligence' A recent study suggests futuristic 'biocomputers' powered by human brain cells could soon become a reality. This new study is said to have the potential to transform computing Daily Mirror · Mar 3, 2023
Human Brain Cells Could Be On Horizon That Powers Biocomputers Leading A Whole New Evolution The brain is still unmatched by modern computers where biocomputers powered by human brain cells could be on horizon. Zenger · Mar 1, 2023
Why does Swarthmore’s basketball team practice foul shots from 14 1/2 feet? Science. PHILADELPHIA — Allen Schneider, longtime Swarthmore College psychology and neuroscience professor, is a basketball fan, but he wasn’t actively looking for ways to help out Swarthmore’s men’s basketball team. He’d just watched Garnet coach Landry Kosmalski enough to think the coach might be receptive to this theory in Schneider’s own… The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 24, 2023
As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down After three years, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center is ceasing operations. Its data dashboards and maps became go-to sources for information from the early days of the pandemic. WEKU · Feb 10, 2023
Social isolation linked to an increased risk of dementia, new study finds Socially isolated older adults have a 27% higher chance of developing dementia, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins. The findings suggest that simple interventions could be meaningful. WEKU · Jan 17, 2023
COVID isn't just infecting you—it could be reactivating viruses that have been dormant in your body for years “Long COVID” in some may not be an entirely new entity, researchers say. Fortune · Dec 26, 2022
Health: Cancer Researchers Discover A Population Of 'Cheating' Cells Researchers from UConn Health, Yale, and Johns Hopkins discovered that some cancer cells can "cheat" by evading the limits imposed by a lack of oxygen, allowing the cancer cells to grow. Read on for details: Dynamite News · Dec 17, 2022
Diseases That Studies Linked to E-Cigarettes Generally Were Diagnosed Before Subjects Began Vaping The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences. Reason · Dec 13, 2022
China Eases 'Zero-COVID' Policies After Nearly 3 Years of Harsh Lockdowns The long-term economic and social impacts of zero-COVID can't be reversed as easily. Reason · Dec 8, 2022
Johns Hopkins University releases designs for new building named after Henrietta Lacks BALTIMORE — Design plans were released this week for a 34,000-square-foot building near the medical campus of Johns Hopkins University that will be named after Henrietta Lacks. Tribune News Service · Nov 12, 2022
Former US Army major and wife charged in alleged plot to leak military patients health data to Russia The couple allegedly said they were motivated by patriotism toward Russia and would provide ‘any assistance’, ‘even if it meant being fired or going to jail‘ The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2022
Creator of Johns Hopkins COVID tracker wins top US science award Tracker launched by US professor Lauren Gardner in early days of outbreak credited with informing global response. Al Jazeera · Sep 29, 2022
Los Angeles Times · Sep 28, 2022 ‘A new standard’: The woman behind the Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard wins major prize In the beginning it was a lifeline, an organized collection of facts amid a swirl of coronavirus uncertainty and misinformation.
The Hindu · Sep 27, 2022 Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defence test Planetary defense experts prefer nudging a threatening asteroid out of the way, rather than blowing it up.
The Guardian - US · Sep 27, 2022 Nasa successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid in planetary defense test Bid to change asteroid’s course marks ‘new era of humankind’ as agency seeks to protect Earth from future disaster
Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022 When you take a pill for that headache, lie down on your right side. Here’s why When you have a pounding headache, it can be rough waiting for the pain meds to kick in. So don’t wait too long, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
Tribune News Service · Aug 11, 2022 Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear COVID-related brain fog Eight months after falling ill with COVID-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.
Salon · Aug 6, 2022 Cognitive rehab to treat COVID brain fog Experts are finding that targeted therapy can benefit long COVID patients with memory and language problems
Tribune News Service · Aug 4, 2022 Johns Hopkins-led consortium gets $200 million to fight tuberculosis BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins Medicine has received $200 million in federal funding to head up a consortium aimed at treating and stemming spread of one of the world’s oldest and deadliest scourges: tuberculosis.
Zenger · Jul 22, 2022 Doctors Develop ‘Holy Grail’ Blood Test That Can Diagnose Cancer Years Before Symptoms A blood test that can diagnose any type of cancer years before symptoms appear could be on the horizon.
Tribune News Service · Jul 8, 2022 Man shot to death while confronting squeegee workers with bat: ‘He should have just kept driving’ BALTIMORE — Timothy Reynolds grew up playing baseball in Carroll Park, later earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, launched an engineering career and fathered three children.
The Guardian - US · Jun 30, 2022 After Uvalde shooting, tech companies tout their solutions. But do they work? Despite the growing adoption of security tools in US schools, mass shootings have remained constant throughout the past 30 years
Zenger · Jun 27, 2022 Toxic Artificial Intelligence: Robots Become Racist And Sexist Bigots Due To Flawed AI, Study Says Robots become sexist and racist bigots because of flawed AI.