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Trust is a major barrier for many when it comes to interactions with healthcare providers and our current system, and community based nurses may help. Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, has created a program called …

Benefits of nurses in communities are multiple, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Neighborhood Nursing, a community outreach that places both a nurse and a community health worker in communities, meets people where they are and helps overcome their fears and inherent barriers in our current fragmented system. That’s according to Sarah Szanton, …

A nursing shortage may be helped by having nurses in the community, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Imagine a nurse whose job it is to hang out in your neighborhood, answering questions, helping manage healthcare issues, and doing basic assessments. That’s the goal of Neighborhood Nursing, an initiative created by Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins …

Just how might a community-based nurse impact healthcare? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Primary healthcare delivered right where you are. Sounds like a fantasy, doesn’t it? Not if health insurers can see the benefits and choose to work together to fund this program, called Neighborhood Nursing, the brainchild of Sarah Szanton, dean of …

What is required to put a nurse and community health worker in place in communities throughout the US? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

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 »