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Seniors Lack Access to Kidney Transplants

BALTIMORE—Thousands more American senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and could get them if physicians would get past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists, according to a study published in the January 2012 ...More
January 13, 2012
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Younger Black Dialysis Patients Have Higher Risk of Death

BALTIMORE—Even though overall black patients have a lower risk of death while receiving dialysis than white patients, this applies primarily to older adults, as black patients younger than 50 years of age have a significantly higher risk of death, according to a study in ...More
August 10, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Students Invent Access Port to Fight Infections

Johns Hopkins University graduate students have invented a device to reduce the risk of infection, clotting and narrowing of the blood vessels in patients who need blood-cleansing dialysis because of kidney failure. ...More
June 28, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Student Invention Fights Access Infections

Johns Hopkins University graduate students have invented a device to reduce the risk of infection, clotting and narrowing of the blood vessels in patients who need blood-cleansing dialysis because of kidney failure. ...More
June 28, 2011
Posted in Galleries, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Johns Hopkins Students Win Award for Vascular Access Device

NEW YORK—A student team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore won top honors in the 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Innovation Showcase for a medical device that provides reliable vascular access in dialysis treatments. ...More
June 23, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Cheaper, Older Type 2 Diabetes Drug Works as Well as Newer Drugs

BALTIMORE—An inexpensive type 2 diabetes drug that has been around for more than 15 years works just as well and has fewer side effects than a half-dozen other, mostly newer and more expensive classes of medication used to control the chronic disease, according to a study ...More
March 15, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Gene Variant Influences Chronic Kidney Disease Risk

BALTIMORE—A team of researchers from the United States and Europe has identified a single genetic mutation in the CUBN gene that is associated with albuminuria both with and without diabetes, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American ...More
March 10, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Academic Medical Centers Must Adapt to Health Reform

BALTIMORE—Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) must adjust and adapt to the new healthcare reform laws or risk marginalization in the new healthcare arena, according to a New England Journal of Medicine Perspective article published online February 2. ...More
February 3, 2011
Posted in News, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Safety Checklist Reduces Hospital Deaths by 10%

BALTIMORE—Hospital deaths dropped 10 percent as a result of a Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that nearly eliminated bloodstream infections in Michigan hospital intensive-care unit. ...More
February 1, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Surgeons Using Fewer High-Risk Donor Organs

BALTIMORE—One-third of U.S. transplant surgeons “overreacted” and started to use fewer organs from high-risk donors after four Chicago patients were transplanted in 2007 with organs from a single donor unknowingly infected with HIV, according to a study in the January issue ...More
January 18, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma