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A Black couple’s home was undervalued by $300,000. Now the US is investigating

Two Johns Hopkins professors say loanDepot lowballed them on their Baltimore home due to their race

The Guardian - US

Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020

The Independent UK

Computers powered by human brain cells to be made using 'organoid intelligence'

A recent study suggests futuristic 'biocomputers' powered by human brain cells could soon become a reality. This new study is said to have the potential to transform computing

Daily Mirror

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Human Brain Cells Could Be On Horizon That Powers Biocomputers Leading A Whole New Evolution

The brain is still unmatched by modern computers where biocomputers powered by human brain cells could be on horizon.

Zenger

Why does Swarthmore’s basketball team practice foul shots from 14 1/2 feet? Science.

PHILADELPHIA — Allen Schneider, longtime Swarthmore College psychology and neuroscience professor, is a basketball fan, but he wasn’t actively looking for ways to help out Swarthmore’s men’s basketball team. He’d just watched Garnet coach Landry Kosmalski enough to think the coach might be receptive to this theory in Schneider’s own…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down

After three years, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center is ceasing operations. Its data dashboards and maps became go-to sources for information from the early days of the pandemic.

WEKU

Social isolation linked to an increased risk of dementia, new study finds

Socially isolated older adults have a 27% higher chance of developing dementia, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins. The findings suggest that simple interventions could be meaningful.

WEKU

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COVID isn't just infecting you—it could be reactivating viruses that have been dormant in your body for years

“Long COVID” in some may not be an entirely new entity, researchers say.

Fortune

Health: Cancer Researchers Discover A Population Of 'Cheating' Cells

Researchers from UConn Health, Yale, and Johns Hopkins discovered that some cancer cells can "cheat" by evading the limits imposed by a lack of oxygen, allowing the cancer cells to grow. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?

Its symptoms have changed a lot.

The Atlantic

Diseases That Studies Linked to E-Cigarettes Generally Were Diagnosed Before Subjects Began Vaping

The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.

Reason

China Eases 'Zero-COVID' Policies After Nearly 3 Years of Harsh Lockdowns

The long-term economic and social impacts of zero-COVID can't be reversed as easily.

Reason

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.

Tribune News Service

Doctors Still Struggle to Diagnose a Condition That Kills More Americans Than Stroke

Can computers crack the code of sepsis?

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The Independent UK

Former US Army major and wife charged in alleged plot to leak military patients health data to Russia

The couple allegedly said they were motivated by patriotism toward Russia and would provide ‘any assistance’, ‘even if it meant being fired or going to jail‘

Al Jazeera

Creator of Johns Hopkins COVID tracker wins top US science award

Tracker launched by US professor Lauren Gardner in early days of outbreak credited with informing global response.

Los Angeles Times

‘A new standard’: The woman behind the Johns Hopkins COVID dashboard wins major prize

In the beginning it was a lifeline, an organized collection of facts amid a swirl of coronavirus uncertainty and misinformation.

The Hindu

Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defence test

Planetary defense experts prefer nudging a threatening asteroid out of the way, rather than blowing it up.

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The Guardian - US

Nasa successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid in planetary defense test

Bid to change asteroid’s course marks ‘new era of humankind’ as agency seeks to protect Earth from future disaster

The Atlantic

A Risky Monkeypox Vaccine Is Looking Better All the Time

The administration’s newest vaccine Hail Mary may not be enough to fix the U.S.’s monkeypox immunization problems.

Tribune News Service

When you take a pill for that headache, lie down on your right side. Here’s why

When you have a pounding headache, it can be rough waiting for the pain meds to kick in. So don’t wait too long, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Tribune News Service

Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear COVID-related brain fog

Eight months after falling ill with COVID-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.

Salon

Cognitive rehab to treat COVID brain fog

Experts are finding that targeted therapy can benefit long COVID patients with memory and language problems

Tribune News Service

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.

Zenger

Doctors Develop ‘Holy Grail’ Blood Test That Can Diagnose Cancer Years Before Symptoms

A blood test that can diagnose any type of cancer years before symptoms appear could be on the horizon.

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