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Mashup Score: 0Unraveling Long COVID's Causes and Impacts | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 10 month(s) ago
Long COVID may offer insights into other vexing post-acute illnesses.
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Mashup Score: 3Firearm Forensics on Trial | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 10 month(s) ago
Defense attorneys appealing a murder conviction enlisted the expertise of statisticians to determine whether the field of firearm forensics is grounded in solid science. The answer? Not even close.
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Thanks in part to an amicus brief by BSPH experts Michael Rosenblum and @ACasadevall1, and others, MD’s Supreme Court ruled that firearms experts will no longer be allowed to testify in criminal cases as to whether a certain gun fired a certain bullet. https://t.co/7EXazSxxfz
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Mashup Score: 1Firearm Forensics on Trial | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 10 month(s) ago
Defense attorneys appealing a murder conviction enlisted the expertise of statisticians to determine whether the field of firearm forensics is grounded in solid science. The answer? Not even close.
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"Rosenblum turned up a litany of flaws in the studies that prosecutors and ballistics experts use to support the practice." Read about @JHUBiostat prof. Michael Rosemblum's and @JohnsHopkinsMMI prof. @ACasadevall1's involvement in this amicus brief: https://t.co/7EXazSy557 https://t.co/vwDlS6DEsa
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Mashup Score: 1Firearm Forensics on Trial | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 11 month(s) ago
Defense attorneys appealing a murder conviction enlisted the expertise of statisticians to determine whether the field of firearm forensics is grounded in solid science. The answer? Not even close.
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Defense attorneys appealing a murder conviction enlisted the expertise of statisticians to determine whether the field of firearm forensics is grounded in solid science. The answer? Not even close. https://t.co/7EXazSxxfz
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Mashup Score: 1Survival Through Difference: How Bacteria Resist Treatment | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 11 month(s) ago
New tools reveal how differences in individual cells within bacterial communities help them survive—and suggest targets for overcoming drug resistance.
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The research by Kimberly Davis and @DavisLabJHU is providing valuable opportunities to develop new drugs or treatment plans that can overcome bacterial drug tolerance and resistance—and thus wipe out entire bacterial communities. https://t.co/2ZTlYv89IE
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Mashup Score: 1Anatomy of the ERPO | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 11 month(s) ago
How Shannon Frattaroli and Joshua Horwitz helped launch lifesaving extreme risk protection order laws.
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Twenty one states and DC now have lifesaving ERPO laws in place, which temporarily prevent a person in crisis from accessing firearms. Two BSPH experts, @SF4publichealth and @JoshuaMHorwitz, were the pioneers behind this lifesaving legislation. https://t.co/A6IxUDy7PJ
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Mashup Score: 4Vision // Spring/Summer 2023 | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 11 month(s) ago
IFHAD team member examines MDR/XDR-TB color diagnostic plate.BRINGING DOWN TB IN PERU It’s not easy to eliminate tuberculosis in the pueblos jóvenes (shantytowns) that surround Lima, Peru. Residents often struggle to survive economically, so taking TB meds for at least six months is especially difficult. But Carlton A. Evans, MD, PhD, an International Health associate, and colleagues at…
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It’s not easy to eliminate tuberculosis in the pueblos jóvenes that surround Lima. But Dr. Carlton Evans and his colleagues at Innovation For Health and Development have demonstrated an inexpensive, effective way to help. https://t.co/vZCXN7vPJ5
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Mashup Score: 4The Deciding Decade for Infectious Diseases | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine - 11 month(s) ago
Two very different threats surged to prominence in the 1980s, remaking public health priorities—and the Bloomberg School.
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When the first AIDS cases were reported to the CDC in 1981, the pursuit of individual freedom and sexual expression was peaking. Unfortunately, at the same time, the public health machinery for responding to sudden, deadly epidemics was rusty. https://t.co/HHQG6THLVt
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We have the opportunity and the expertise to transform strategies for improving mental health in higher ed.
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At BSPH, we have an opportunity to leverage our expertise in workplace mental health and well-being to develop better strategies and interventions for higher education faculty and staff, especially in graduate schools, writes Dean Ellen J. MacKenzie. https://t.co/c0UzexTYyP
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An animal tranquilizer is turning up in illicit opioid supplies, raising the risk of harm and death.
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Xylazine—a veterinary tranquilizer—combines powerfully with fentanyl to produce a longer high, and it’s easily diverted from sources like farms and veterinary facilities. But it comes at a cost, causing sedation, hypotension, and deep, unhealing wounds. https://t.co/yYh3FsgcdX
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“We know lots of viruses create persistent problems—what would make this virus any different? Why wouldn’t we be wanting to think about long-term impacts?” https://t.co/0KiuG3Xnn6