Johns hopkins News

The first human clinical trials of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat Alzheimer's Disease using a surgically implanted device many scientists have nicknamed a "brain pacemaker" are underway at research centers in the United States and Canada.

Jack Andraka appears to be your average 15 year-old high school freshman, enjoying kayaking and watching Glee. However, few high school freshmen receive the Gordon E. Moore Award for developing a new cancer testing method.

Findings from a new report show the number of people living in the U.S. with mental health disability has increased in the last ten years, yet disability from other chronic diseases has declined.

Sydney - From the 1950s through to the late 70s, pollution, particularly air pollution, was a very big issue. It’s now an excuse for the whole ineffectual science of epidemiology to go to sleep and issue soggy press releases about smoking.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders.

In the past few months I have been had first hand experience at being a patient advocate for my husband. We are fans of the television show "House," a show one nurse in the ICU unit told me to not watch until life was saner. I listened to that advice.