Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Type: Organization

Name: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Five Johns Hopkins Physicians Inducted into American Society for Clinical Investigation - 5/2/13

Johns Hopkins’ Mary Armanios, M.D.; L. Ebony Boulware, M.D., M.P.H.; Andrea Cox, M.D., Ph.D.; Kelly Gebo, M.D., M.P.H.; and Sherita Golden, M.D., M.H.S., have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). The five were among ... [Published Johns Hopkins Medicine - May 04 2013]

Entities: Internal Medicine, HIV/AIDS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Patient, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Giant-Landover

Giant-Landover Goes to Bat for Kids With Cancer

Giant Food LLC is launching its ninth annual Triple Winner game on April 19 to benefit the pediatric oncology division at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Children’s Cancer Foundation. Since it began in 2005, Triple Winner has raised $11.5 ... [Published Progressive Grocer - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Cancer, Giant-Landover, Cancer Research, Oncology

First reported Jan 24 2013 - Updated Jan 24 2013 - 1 reports

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Progress in Treatment of Prostate Cancer

New Findings on Prostate Cancer share this storyScientists analyzing cases of metastatic prostate cancer have found a consistent “signature” in each tumor, reversing a belief that such signatures do not exist and so cannot be targeted in therapy.The report, ... [Published ThirdAge - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: Prostate Cancer, Metastatic, Cancer, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

First reported Dec 10 2012 - Updated Dec 10 2012 - 1 reports

Docs Search the Internet

share this storyA survey of 485 oncologists and primary care physicians done at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found that 61% of doctors look for medical information on the Internet on a weekly basis if not more often and 46% contribute new information. ... [Published ThirdAge - Dec 10 2012]

Entities: oncologist, Robert S. Miller, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Twitter

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"These results on Dr. Raimondo's carefully collected samples are really exciting and have clear practice-changing implications" says co-author David Ahlquist, M D , who led the collaborating laboratory team at Mayo Clinic in Rochester...

Mayo Clinic: Molecular marker from pancreatic 'juices' helps identify pancreatic cancer [Published Brightsurf Science News - May 20 2013]

...it is," said Thomas G Sherman, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center. "There are lots of epidemiological studies, and so of course people see these studies and want to drink tea and gain these benefits." Nationally, tea purchases have risen for 20 consecutive years, annual supermarket sales have surpassed $2...

Tea grows a reputation for healthfulness [Published McAlester News-Capital - Apr 03 2013]

"What did surprise us was the heavy use of online physician-only communities," Miller says. "It's possible that many physicians feel more comfortable with that type of social media instead of a more public space like Twitter or"

Docs Search the Internet [Published ThirdAge - Dec 10 2012]

Becker-Schutte notes that the women's fellowship doesn't end with their hour-long chats. BCSM leaders monitor the group's ongoing conversations. "If someone is having a hard time, it isn't long before someone responds." Becker-Schutte says

Breast cancer survivor group is a social movement [Published Stevens Point Journal - Oct 23 2012]