Portal hypertension is elevated pressure in your portal venous system. The portal vein is a major vein that leads to the liver. The most common cause of portal hypertension is cirrhosis (scarring) of ...

Ulrich Mueller Ph.D., and Erika Pearce, Ph.D., from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, have been elected to the ...

For every 1% increase in blood-brain barrier disruption, the odds of a person having a poor outcome 3 months after an ...

A new study in mice led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers suggests a link between a high-fat prenatal diet and ...

Since a landmark 2009 study, researchers have known that a common gut bacterium, Bacteroides fragilis, drives colon tumor ...

The research, published May 7 in Blood, and funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, shows that inherited loss-of ...

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is an antibody blood protein that’s part of your immune system. Your body makes IgA and other types of antibodies to help fight off sickness. Having an IgA deficiency means that ...

A reduced-intensity bone marrow transplant regimen developed by Johns Hopkins physicians provides durable engraftment with ...

The pituitary gland is a small, pea-sized organ in the brain. Most pituitary tumors are benign. Symptoms vary depending on the type of tumor and the affected area of the pituitary gland. Your health ...

Prion diseases comprise several conditions. A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally. Prion diseases can affect both humans and animals. They are ...

Financial Aid cost of attendance (COA), student budgets, are constructed using the following categories which are comprised of what is referred to as "direct educational costs" charged to all students ...

New @hopkinskimmel research research reveals how amino acic cysteine helps T cells balance growth and cancer fighting, could inform immunotherapy. › The study, published March 31 in Cell, shows that ...