Attorney Brad Tennis’ busy day in Washington, D.C., started out normally with a trip on the Metro, but his afternoon commute quickly took a turn. It was August 2018, yet it wasn’t the heat that ...

In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

The Johns Hopkins team that conducted the new study had previously shown that the molecule of interest, an “antisense ...

Extreme pain, known as a pain crisis, is one of the hallmark symptoms of SCD. With frequent hospitalizations, chronic pain ...

Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine has kicked off a yearlong celebration of its centennial, highlighting 100 years ...

Here’s what happens in your body when you have high cholesterol: The waxy cholesterol builds up in artery walls and contributes to plaque, a hard deposit that narrows and clogs the arteries. (You may ...

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can’t pump as well as it should. This may happen when the heart muscle becomes weak or stiff. As a result, it doesn’t deliver enough blood to ...

Physicians, advanced practice providers and collaborative teams at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital were honored during the 10th Annual Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Excellence Awards on March ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as “guardians” of mitochondria, small ...

You can’t see high blood pressure, also called hypertension. And most of the time, you can’t feel it. But if you’re among the 78 million Americans with hypertension or are one of the 70 million with ...

Transgender and gender-expansive people have the same health concerns as cisgender people (those whose gender identity generally matches the gender assigned for their physical sex), but there are some ...

What is a heart transplant? A heart transplant is surgery to remove the diseased heart from a person and replace it with a healthy one from an organ donor. To remove the heart from the donor, two or ...