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  1. Caffeine Experts at Johns Hopkins Call for Warning Labels for Energy Drinks - 9/24/08

    Johns Hopkins scientists who have spent decades researching the effects of caffeine report that a slew of caffeinated energy drinks now on the market should carry prominent labels that note caffeine doses and warn of potential health risks for consumers.
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/09_24_08.html
  2. In Women, Oversize Waistlines are a Potent Risk Factor for Heart Disease - 9/23/08

    A heart expert at Johns Hopkins is calling for all women with a waistline measuring more than 35 inches to get an annual check-up and detailed risk assessment for heart problems because excess abdominal fat, even in the mildly obese and overweight, leads more than a third of women to underestimate their lifetime risk of having a heart attack, stroke or chest pain (angina.)
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/09_23_08.html
  3. Two Johns Hopkins Professors Receive "Genius" Grants - 9/23/08

    Two Johns Hopkins University professors — a physician who champions scientifically rigorous, common- sense approaches to improving patient safety and an astrophysicist who was a leader in the discovery of the universe's "dark energy" — were named today as winners of MacArthur Fellowships, the so-called "genius grants."
    http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/sep08/macarthur.html
  4. Hibernation Studies, Tiny Medical Tools Lead to Major Grants - 9/22/08

    Two Johns Hopkins researchers—a physician whose squirrel hibernation studies may lead to new treatments for muscle-wasting diseases, and an engineer who is building medical tools smaller than a speck of dust—have received prestigious 2008 New Innovator Awards, the National Institutes of Health announced today.
    http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/sep08/innovators.html
  5. Genetic Fishing Expedition Yields Surprising Catch Important to Mammals - 9/19/08

    Johns Hopkins investigators report the discovery of master controllers of a gene critical to human and all mammalian development by trawling, implausibly enough, through anonymous genetic sequences using tiny zebrafish embryos.
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/09_19a_08.html
  6. People With Type 2 Diabetes Can Put Fatty Livers On A Diet with Moderate Exercise - 9/19/08

    Weekly bouts of moderate aerobic exercise on a bike or treadmill, or a brisk walk, combined with some weightlifting, may cut down levels of fat in the liver by up to 40 percent in people with type 2 diabetes, a study by physical fitness experts at Johns Hopkins shows.
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/09_19_08.html
  7. Johns Hopkins Receives Second Consecutive Conte Grant for Study of Synaptic "Brain Talk" - 9/17/08

    Brain scientists studying the molecular mechanisms of memory have earned a $1.5 million grant and the second consecutive designation for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a Silvio A. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research by the National Institute of Mental Health.
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/09_17_08.html
 

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