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In this episode, Heather Watson speaks with Magnet Coordinators across the Johns Hopkins Health System — including Jo Lambert and Kim Kuperman from All Children’s Hospital and Lynnae Elliott from Johns Hopkins Hospital  — as they reflect on the highs, …

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A protein movement is upon us. Shakes, bars, chips, cookies ... tons of brands tout protein benefits. But how much protein does a person actually need each day? Marci Laudenslager, MD, MHS, joins Hopkins GIM's "Medicine Made General" to talk …

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Depending on your media exposure you have likely seen commercials or advertisements for cancer detection tests that look for markers of the disease in your blood. Now a new study examines these tests and determines that they’re really not ready …

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Changes to DNA that are added on top of the baseline order of its building blocks are known as epigenetics, and these changes are implicated in a number of diseases and conditions, including pancreas cancer. Now a Johns Hopkins study …

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Certain bacteria commonly found in the gut produce toxins that promote breast cancer, a Johns Hopkins study shows. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins says there is a pathway where such an association makes sense. Nelson: When …

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There are too many copies of one arm of chromosome one in pancreas cancer, a Johns Hopkins study finds. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Hopkins, says the stage of tumor development where this finding was seen …

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Perhaps you recall from high school biology that you have 23 pairs of chromosomes. A Johns Hopkins study has shown that one arm of chromosome one, the biggest chromosome, is often copied many times in pancreas cancer, and that part …

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