Researchers have updated the Alzheimer’s diagnostic guidelines for the first time in 27 years, allowing for earlier detection.

The names of the 50 United States contain 25 different letters of the alphabet, a ratio of 2-to-1. (You could get the missing letter q by including the Canadian province of Quebec, but we aren’t going there.) Here is a challenge to see how many state names you can spell using only a limited number […]

Green pigs steal eggs from a bunch of birds. These are birds with an attitude—and a taste for revenge. The birds’ mission, and yours, is to trash the pigs’ castles. Such “challenging physics-based castle demolition” is no simple matter. It “requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.” Some of you may be […]

American painter Cecilia Beaux is best known for her late 19th-century portraits of the well-heeled society members of her native Philadelphia and, eventually, other big cities on the Eastern Seaboard. The women in those paintings are often pampered by birthright, wearing ornate, ruffled white dresses with high necks and flowing sleeves, and seated or assuming […]

With a career at the School of Hygiene and Public Health (as the Bloomberg School of Public Health was known prior to its 2001 name change) that spanned six decades, it seems fitting that occupational health and industrial hygiene pioneer Anna Baetjer would be painted by a member of an artistic family whose relationship with […]

An infectious disease specialist and dean of the School of Medicine for 24 years, Alan Chesney also wrote the first history of the medical school and hospital. (It was his mentee, Thomas Turner, who possessed the fundraising skills and diplomacy that brought the schools of medicine, nursing, and public health together with the hospital to […]

The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, which was founded by German émigré Max Brödel, celebrated its centennial this year as the first medical illustration program of its kind. In the era before affordable and immediate photography, Brödel’s illustrations were in heavy demand by Johns Hopkins faculty for their anatomical correctness and exquisite realism, […]

Surgeon, librarian, and hospital planner John Shaw Billings was a 19th-century renaissance man who did everything from serve as a Union army battlefield surgeon during the Civil War to help unite New York City’s libraries into the New York Public Library. In 1876 he was one of five men asked by the Johns Hopkins Hospital […]

Teen photographer Maryum Shadeed captured these two smiling guys during her participation in a recent Photovoice project organized by the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Adolescent Health. Though the idea is simple—“Put a camera in the hands of the person you want to work with and ask them to document their environment and […]

“Johns Hopkins students are intense, ambitious, and highly motivated,” says John Bader, who has been associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs for a decade and is leaving to begin private practice as an adviser. “But it cuts both ways. They can also be too competitive, care too much about what other people think, and pursue […]