In just a few short weeks, our annual appeal letter will be going out. Therefore, I wanted to take this opportunity to update all our wonderful donors and supporters regarding our research endeavors and grants. Thanks to the Derfner Foundation’s recent grant, an expert committee of judges chose two more scholars at Johns Hopkins for

Your smart phone can now be a remote monitoring device for your heart. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first smart phone compatible insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) for use in the USA. The Confirm Rx ICM manufactured by Abbott Labs is implanted under the skin in a minimally invasive outpatient procedure.

You either heard it on TV or read it in the newspapers that a recent study published in the journal Neurology found that “decreases in stroke incidence over time are driven by a decrease in ischemic stroke in men. Contrary to previous study periods, stroke incidence rates were similar by sex in 2010.” The study specifically

Researchers Claim Moderate Alcohol Use May Lower Your Risk Against Diabetes According to a major study conducted in Denmark, drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may actually lower your risk against getting diabetes. And shockingly enough, teetotalers who abstain run a higher risk of getting diabetes! The Danish paper published in Diabetologia (the Journal of the

Decades ago, when walking down the street or sitting in a restaurant one would be surrounded by wafts of tobacco smoke. Nowadays pedestrians are surrounded by puffs of cotton candy and mint smoke emanating from electronic cigarettes. The act of smoking electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes (EC) is known as vaping. Vaping has created a new