As one of the world’s most well known and highly regarded health care institutions, Hopkins attracts students, faculty and physicians who want to forge new paths in scientific understanding and health care practice.

In 1899, Johns Hopkins surgeons pioneered the use of rubber gloves in the operating room.

In 1919, researchers discovered the antiseptic powers of a compound that became known as Mercurochrome.

In 1944, Dr. Alfred Blalock, assisted by Vivien Thomas, performed the first “Blue Baby” surgery, a pioneering groundbreaking heart operation that saved thousands of children's lives and ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery.

In 1948, scientists discovered Dramamine's effectiveness in alleviating motion sickness.

In 1958, research at Hopkins led to the development of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, today known simply as CPR.

In 1976, public health researchers at Hopkins were the first to discover the connection between vitamin A deficiency and childhood death in developing countries, saving the lives of millions of children around the world.

That tradition of scientific discovery and real-world application continues into the 21st Century, as Hopkins leads the way in the rapidly emerging field of genetics.

In 1978, Hopkins professors Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their groundbreaking research that laid the groundwork for the present worldwide effort to map the human genome.

Building on their colleagues’ work, Hopkins faculty in the 1990s have identified the genes that help predict colon cancer, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and prostate cancer.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health received in 2001 $100 million to open the Malaria Center, continuing its groundbreaking work toward defeating a disease that strikes each year 300-500 million, 90 percent of them in Africa, causing between 1.5 million and 3 million deaths globally.

And Hopkins is leading the way in America’s preparedness against international terror, as the Center For Civilian Biodefense Strategies (and its highly accessed Web site, www.hopkins-biodefense.org) provides vital and timely information, which seeks to guide policy and practice that will reduce the likelihood that biological weapons are used, and, should prevention fail, lessen the suffering and consequences that would result from their use.
To find out more about Johns Hopkins, we invite you to point your Web browser to the following sites.

Johns Hopkins Medicine
www.hopkinsmedicine.org

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
www.jhsph.edu

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
www.son.jhmi.edu

For more on Hopkins Medicine’s unique history:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/history.html

Medical Research Highlights:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/facts/research/index.html

Institutional Awards:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/facts/awards/index.html

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Malaria Center:
www.jhsph.edu/ResearchCenters/malaria_facts.html

The story of vitamin A and childhood mortality:
www.jhsph.edu/Press_Room/Press_Releases/sommer_vitA.html