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On a visit to the U.S. to present his findings to leading cardiac surgeons, Batista was rushed off to Baltimore, Md., to see a 32-year-old woman with congestive heart failure who was not expected to survive the weekend. In a moment of reflection, Batista offered a glimpse of...
During an interlude at Johns Hopkins University's school of public health, he co-authored a law-journal paper with his professor, Stephen Teret, in which he used epidemiological evidence to explore handgun injuries: how they occurred and who was involved. The study raised the intriguing possibility of assessing gun...
George Bush may have been right about broccoli after all. According to a team of scientists from Johns Hopkins University, you don't have to eat a full helping of the hated vegetable to get the health benefits; a spoonful of crunchy broccoli sprouts will do the trick. Writing in...
This is not the first time that scientists have lauded broccoli's anticancer benefits. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Paul Talalay and his colleagues first isolated sulforaphane from broccoli in 1992. Tests showed that the compound reduced the incidence of breast tumors in rats by 60%. While vitamin E and other antioxidants...
That's where the sprouts come in. After analyzing 50 different varieties of broccoli, the Hopkins researchers discovered that 15 of those strains produced seedlings with extraordinarily high concentrations of sulforaphane. The sprouts have a mildly spicy taste, which should make them more palatable than full-grown broccoli, especially when...