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Prepare for tick season: What to know about bites, removing ticks and tick-borne diseases

Knowing how to prevent and safely treat tick bites can help reduce your risk of developing tick-borne infectious diseases, such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

LiveScience

Low protein levels in spinal fluid predicts mild cognitive impairment: Study

A study of cognitively healthy adults has added to evidence that low spinal fluid levels of a protein associated with learning and memory in mice may serve as an early predictor of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) years before symptoms appear. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Joe Biden has sleep apnea; here’s what you should know about the condition

President Joe Biden recently began using a CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea, CNN reported on Wednesday. It’s a common disorder that affects an estimated 30 million U.S. Adults, according to a Feb. 2023 report by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

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Johns Hopkins surgeons get $21.4 million to study pig-to-human organ transplants

BALTIMORE — Two Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeons will receive $21.4 million over the next two years to advance research needed to successfully transplant living cells, tissues and organs from animals to humans.

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The ginger ale cure's secret ingredient

When my own kid was sick, I felt pulled toward the refrigerator case for the taste of familiar medicine

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Celine Dion reveals stiff person syndrome diagnosis, postpones 2023 tour dates

The singer revealed the diagnosis of the incurable neurological disorder in an emotional Instagram video Thursday adding that the symptoms are what have been causing her to have severe muscle spasms in the past.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johns Hopkins University releases designs for new building named after Henrietta Lacks

BALTIMORE — Design plans were released this week for a 34,000-square-foot building near the medical campus of Johns Hopkins University that will be named after Henrietta Lacks.

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Johns Hopkins-led consortium gets $200 million to fight tuberculosis

BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins Medicine has received $200 million in federal funding to head up a consortium aimed at treating and stemming spread of one of the world’s oldest and deadliest scourges: tuberculosis.

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CBD: New Study Finds Wide Evidence Of Mislabeling For Cannabidiol Products

In a new study, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers tested more than a hundred topical cannabidiol (CBD) products, that are available online and at retail stores and found "significant evidence of inaccurate and mi

Benzinga

Health: Coffee consumption may reduce risk of acute kidney injury

A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers suggests that coffee consumption is linked to a reduced risk of acute kidney injury (AKI). Full story on Dynamite News:

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Gilbert Gottfried suffered from ventricular tachycardia — what to know about the heart condition

Sometimes episodes of the condition can last just a few seconds, but longer episodes can be life-threatening. The condition also can cause the heart to stop.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gilbert Gottfried had myotonic dystrophy before his death. What is the rare disease?

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried died on Tuesday after a long illness, his family announced.

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Study finds how mosquitoes ignore insect repellents

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have uncovered the process that makes mosquitoes able to ignore common insect repellents.

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How are mosquitoes able to avoid insect repellents?

In what they call surprise findings, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that unlike fruit flies, mosquitoes' odour sensing nerve cells shut down when those cells are forced to produce odour-related proteins, or receptors, on the surface of the cell. This "expression" process apparently makes the bugs able to ignore common…

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Jacobs Bags Project Management Contract From Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine has selected Jacobs Engineering Group Inc (NYSE:J) to provide project management services to redevelop laboratory space on its medical campus in Baltimore, Maryland. Financial terms were not disclosed. Plans are to renovate Johns Hopkins Hospital's existing Children's Medical and Surgical Center (CMSC) and construct a new 12-story North Tower addition.…

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