On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

U.S. News & World Report has released its annual Best Children’s Hospitals rankings for 2025–26. Both Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital are ranked #1 in their ...

The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, located in Baltimore, Maryland, provides an infrastructure that oversees, coordinates and supports patient safety and quality efforts across ...

Associate Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine ...

Scientists say their findings on how a critical brain protein functions may solve a decades-long mystery in molecular neuroscience. .@HopkinsMedicine scientists identified a potential target for drugs ...

Healthcare providers use endovascular coiling to block blood flow into an aneurysm. This procedure is also called endovascular embolization. An aneurysm is a weakened area in the wall of an artery. If ...

The right nutrition is always important for athletes, but it becomes crucial when preparing for a competition. What you eat and drink before and during an event can help or harm your performance.

A venomous snakebite injects venom, a poison (toxic) into the victim’s body. The bite can cause injury. In rare cases, it can be fatal. According to the CDC, about 8,000 snakebites happen in the U.S.

Cardioversion is a procedure used to return an abnormal heartbeat to a normal rhythm. This procedure is used when the heart is beating very fast or irregular. This is called an arrhythmia. Arrhythmias ...

Nuclear medicine is a specialized area of radiology. It uses very small amounts of a radioactive substance (radionuclide or radio-tracer) for health research, diagnosis, and treatment of various ...

Angina pectoris occurs when your heart muscle (myocardium) does not get enough blood and oxygen. Not enough blood supply is called ischemia. Angina can be a symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD).

The heart consists of 4 chambers--2 atria (upper chambers) and 2 ventricles (lower chambers). Blood passes through a valve as it leaves each chamber of the heart. The valves prevent the backward flow ...