12/18/03 Teenage Pregnancy May Put Girls At Risk for Osteoporosis 12/16/03 Practice-Based Interventions Enhance Quality of Care 12/15/03 U.S. Fund for UNICEF Leaders Discuss State of the World's Children 12/04/03 Moderate Alcohol Consumption Linked to Brain Shrinkage 12/01/03 Christmas Tree Distributors Promote Safe Driving 11/21/03 Tobacco Control Policies Lower Smoking Rates 11/20/03 School-Based "Pathways" Intervention Reveals Need for More Intense Tools to Combat Childhood Obesity 11/18/03 HIV Documentary to Premiere Dec. 1 11/10/03 Mutants, Mosquitoes and Mad Cows Seminar--November 12 11/05/03 Placental Malaria Increases Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission 11/04/03 $37 Million Grant Awarded for Global Health Research 11/03/03 Systolic Better Than Diastolic or Pulse Blood Pressure as Indicators of Mortality Risk 10/31/03 Genital Ulcers Increase During and After HIV Infection 10/30/03 Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Announces Fellowship Grants 10/29/03 Dr. Neil R. Powe Elected to Institute of Medicine 10/27/03 Two Million Neonatal Deaths Take Place In Two Developing Regions Of The World 10/25/03 New Child Safety Seat Law Effective October 1 10/24/03 School Receives $1.6 Million to Expand Vaccine Development and Research 10/16/03 Proteins Enable HIV to Override Cell's Defenses 10/13/03 Mandatory Infant Restraints on Airplanes Ill-Advised 10/10/03 Mental Health and Disaster Preparedness 10/09/03 Antiretroviral Therapy After Birth Decreases Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission 10/01/03 Spectators Discouraged From Watching Building Demolitions 09/29/03 PET Scans Used to Determine Progression of HIV Infection 09/24/03 Robert Blum to Chair Population and Family Health Sciences 09/23/03 New Software Helps States Manage Medicaid Expenditures 09/16/03 New Institute for Global Health and Security 09/12/03 Linda Fried Named to NACA 09/11/03 AIDS Development Can Be Monitored and Predicted 09/05/03 School of Public Health Part of Regional Biodefense Center 09/03/03 Pesticide Symposium Focuses on Identifying Threats 09/02/03 Program Evaluation Critical to Pakistani Doctoral Retainment 08/29/03 African American Teen Mothers Have Greater Risk for Low Birth Weight and Premature Babies 08/26/03 Center for Adolescent Health Appoints New Director 08/25/03 Two School Professors Recognized by APHA 08/22/03 Intervention Decreases Childhood Pneumonia Mortality 08/14/03 Pneumococcal Vaccine Effective for High-Risk Communities 08/13/03 American Indian HIV Awareness Campaign 08/12/03 Research Invents New Graphing Method 08/12/03 Faculty Named to Dietary Guidelines Committee 08/11/03 Illiterate and Poor in Brazil Have Lower Life Expectancy 07/31/03 School Participates in AlphaVax HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial 07/28/03 60-Day Antibiotic Not Enough to Prevent Some Anthrax Cases 07/25/03 Over Half of Zimbabwean Women Believe Wife Beating is Justified 07/21/03 Some Mental Health Cost Controls May Increase Employers' Long-Term Expenses 07/10/03 Rise in Needle Sharing Among Pakistani Injection Drug Users 07/07/03 Patients Overly Optimistic About Phase I Clinical Trials 07/01/03 Reducing Dietary Dioxin Exposure 06/27/03 New Research Examines Global Child Mortality 06/26/03 Injuries Cost China Over $12 Billion A Year 06/26/03 Predictors of Alcohol Abuse in Schizophrenics 06/24/03 Group Psychotherapy Effective Treatment for Depression in Rural Uganda 06/17/03 Pakistani Injection Drug Users Twice as Likely to Donate Blood 06/13/03 Pregnant Women in Developing Countries More Prone to Violence 06/11/03 School Among Meatless Monday Campaign Scholar Program Winners 06/10/03 Three School Studies Published in June Health Policy and Planning 06/09/03 Vehicle Traffic Associated with Increased Carcinogen Levels 06/05/03 Gates Foundation Commits $40 Million to School of Public Health 05/30/03 Professors Named to Most Highly Cited Researchers List 05/29/03 School Researcher Addresses United Nations 05/27/03 Dean Sommer Receives Warren Alpert Foundation Scientific Prize 05/22/03 Diabetes, Environment Lead to Rise in Kidney Failure 05/22/03 Child Safety Seat Inspections Offered Free of Charge 05/12/03 School to Hold SARS Seminar 05/8/03 School Researchers Win Invention of the Year Award 05/06/03 Americans Pay More for Health Care but Receive Less in Return 05/06/03 Faculty Innovation Fund Awardees 2003 05/05/03 Pregnant African American Teens Need More Calcium For Healthy Fetal Bone Development 05/02/03 School to Establish Department to Study Ways to Enhance Healthy Behavior 05/02/03 Are Americans Getting Too Many Vitamins? 04/25/03 Responding to SARS (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed) 04/25/03 Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces Infant Diarrhea 04/17/03 Residents In East Baltimore’s Empowerment Zone Use Internet as a Health Information Resource 04/16/03 Baltimore Area Anglers at Risk from Contaminated Fish 04/14/03 School and Chesapeake Bay Foundation Call for Public Health Indicators 04/11/03 Dean Sommer’s Editorial on SARS Epidemic 04/08/03 Grant Boosts School's Research on Secondhand Smoke 04/02/03 School's Drs. Slade and Salkever Win First Adam Smith Award 03/31/03 Folic Acid-Iron Supplements Reduce Risk of Low Birth Weight 03/28/03 Initiative Could Cut Future Blindness by Two Thirds 03/28/03 New Website on Global Environmental Change and Our Health 03/25/03 Assessment Finds Gaps In Access To Nation’s Trauma Centers 03/25/03 Lead Levels Linked to Hypertension in Menopausal Women 03/24/03 Message Regarding War In Iraq From Dean Sommer 03/24/03 Pakistani and Afghani Drug Users at High HIV Risk 03/19/03 Trachoma Leaves Millions Blind, Costs $2.9 Billion to Global Economy 03/14/03 Conference on “Dirty Bombs” at Maritime Institute - March 17 03/14/03“Docs, Cops, And Shops” Program To Curb Drinking And Driving 03/10/03 Chemical in Soy Alters Reproductive Organs in Male Rats 03/10/03 Public Health Consequences of War In Iraq Discussed At Forum 03/04/03 Dr. Zeger and Dr. Liang Among Most Highly Cited Researchers 03/04/03 Radio Drama Helps Young People Avoid HIV/AIDS 02/26/03 High-Risk Trachoma Patients Less Likely to Pay for Treatment 02/25/03 Internet Use May Benefit Survival Of Minority/Ethnic Breast Cancer Patients 02/24/03 Surveys Find Chronic Conditions A Widespread Concern 02/24/03 School Receives Grant to Research Parkinson's Disease 02/19/03 Preparedness Tips from the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies 02/11/03 School Awarded $30 Million to Develop and Introduce Pneumococcal Vaccine to Poorer Nations 02/05/03 Federal Grant to Fund Mobile Safety Center 02/03/03 School Conducted Experiment Aboard Space Shuttle 01/24/03 Health Risks of Agricultural Antibiotic Use in the Poultry Industry 01/22/03 Domestic Violence Levels High in Rural Uganda 01/22/03 Food Fortification Spurred By Military Purchases 01/21/03 Preliminary Results of Poultry Worker Study Announced January 23 01/13/03 The Cancer Cluster Explained 01/13/03 CCP to Develop Vietnamese Serial Drama to Improve Health 01/08/03 Public Health Awareness Increased After September 11 Attacks 01/03/03 19.2 Million U.S. Adults Have Chronic Kidney Disease Public Affairs Media Contacts for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Tim Parsons or Kenna Brigham @ 410.955.6878 or paffairs@jhsph.edu.
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