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Primary healthcare delivered right where you are. Sounds like a fantasy, doesn’t it? Not if health insurers can see the benefits and choose to work together to fund this program, called Neighborhood Nursing, the brainchild of Sarah Szanton, dean of …
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Neighborhood Nursing is a new initiative begun by Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and colleagues, to place a nurse and a community health worker in neighborhoods to deliver primary care and other health services. Szanton …
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Opioid overdoses continue to be a huge public health problem, with new synthetic opioids continuing to be developed. Eric Strain, a substance use disorder expert at Johns Hopkins, says one bright spot is access to treatment is improving. Strain: I …
Readily available treatment is important for opioid addiction, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »
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How can we explain the disparity between cancer deaths among men and women, including the prognostication in a recent WHO report on cancer worldwide that many more men will succumb? Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins says …
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CAR-T therapy, where someone’s own immune cells are trained to go after their cancer, has now been shown to confer a heightened infection risk, and risk of death from infection, for some recipients. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William …
