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Neighborhood Nursing is a new initiative begun by Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and colleagues, to place a nurse and a community health worker in neighborhoods to deliver primary care and other health services. Szanton …

How might a nurse in the neighborhood change the way healthcare is delivered in the US? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Nitazines are the new kid on the block when it comes to synthetic opioids being found in street drugs, and they can be about 40 times as powerful as fentanyl. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, …

Synthetic opioids continue to complicate rates of opioid dependance and death, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Opioid overdoses continue to be a huge public health problem, with new synthetic opioids continuing to be developed. Eric Strain, a substance use disorder expert at Johns Hopkins, says one bright spot is access to treatment is improving. Strain: I …

Readily available treatment is important for opioid addiction, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

How can we explain the disparity between cancer deaths among men and women, including the prognostication in a recent WHO report on cancer worldwide that many more men will succumb? Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins says …

World Health Organization data paints an increased risk of cancer and cancer death for men, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

The World Health Organization has recently released a snapshot of world cancer data, with a look forward to what we might expect regarding cancers of all types in the coming decades. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at …

Who is at risk for cancer development and death over the next decades? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

CAR-T therapy, where someone’s own immune cells are trained to go after their cancer, has now been shown to confer a heightened infection risk, and risk of death from infection, for some recipients. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William …

How does infection risk relative to CAR-T treatment factor into therapy? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Just keeping up with the names is difficult: fentanyl, carfentanyl, xylazine, now nitazines…and each has a host of harms and is more potent than its predecessor. Substance use disorder expert Eric Strain at Johns Hopkins says keeping up is a …

How is it that more and more powerful opioids are appearing among street drugs? Elizabeth Tracey reports. Read More »

Adding the potent opioid nitazine to heroin or fentanyl is hard to understand, since it ups the likelihood you’ll kill your clientele. Eric Strain, a substance use disorder expert at Johns Hopkins, is nonplussed. Strain: Why? That's a great question …

Why add even more potent synthetic opioids to existing ones? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

When someone is brought to the ED having overdosed, the clock is ticking to identify what substance they’ve used and then attempt to reverse it. Johns Hopkins substance use disorder expert Eric Strain says that’s why the new street opioid …

What are the dangers of nitazines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

No sooner does awareness of new types of street opioids develop than the next generation appears. Such is the case with nitazines, a class of opioids being found increasingly adulterating heroin and fentanyl, with deadly consequences. Johns Hopkins substance use …

Newer and more potent street opioids are always being developed, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »