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Put Your Heart First — Johns Hopkins Experts Available to Discuss Heart Health in Children and Adults

February is American Heart Month, a time for awareness of heart-related conditions that affect children and adults. Johns ...
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Cognitive Speed Training Linked to Lower Dementia Incidence Up To 20 Years Later

Cognitive speed training was linked to a reduced incidence of #Dementia for up to 20 years, according to new findings from the NIH-funded #ACTIVE study: @alzdemjournals @HopkinsMedicine ...
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The Science of Being a Winter Olympian: The Brains, Endurance and Cold-Sensing Abilities That Make It Possible

As temperatures dip below freezing, two areas of our bodies help to regulate our response, or the response of a winter ...
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Updated Guidelines Standardize How Tumor Response Is Measured After Surgery

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have ...
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Running the Distance: Patient Teams with Johns Hopkins Medicine Dermatologists to Treat, Understand Rare Hereditary Cancer Syndrome

Jeffrey Ellin, a 46-year-old Baltimore resident and an avid long-distance runner, brought himself to the Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D., Outpatient Center in February 2020 with a small cosmetic complaint ...
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Folliculitis, Boils and Carbuncles

What are folliculitis, boils, and carbuncles? Folliculitis, boils, and carbuncles are types of infections of one or more hair follicles. A hair follicle is the base or root of a hair. The infections ...
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Hemolytic Anemia

Hemolytic anemia is a disorder in which red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be made. The destruction of red blood cells is called hemolysis. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of ...