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• Putting the Patient First

  Health care providers must work in teams to improve patient safety and support quality health care, several experts said at a major lecture at Georgetown University on Tuesday, June 5. The Inaugural D

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• How to Prevent Nation’s Leading Killer

  America’s leading cause of death is also the most preventable: high blood pressure kills silently and slowly. Heart disease, the result of high blood pressure stealthily eroding vital organs and the b

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• Incubator for Growing Scientific Minds

  Paul Roepe, Ph.D., likes to pay it forward. Just as his teachers gave him time and attention, Roepe likes to mentor students who want to work with him. And it isn’t just a few. Over the last two decad

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• Graduate to Share Love of Science

  Von’Travis Dejanaro Crawford (NHS’12), a senior human science major at the School of Nursing & Health Studies, plans to teach high school science for Teach for America in Dallas-Fort Worth after gradu

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• Study On Anti-Epilepsy Drugs in Newborns

  Long after Karen Gale, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University Medical Center, began studying epilepsy, she gave birth to a daughter who experienced seizures as an infant. Gale kne

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• In Their Own Words

  On May 20, 193 medical students will graduate from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Of the group, nine have chosen to become family medicine practitioners, and will soon be off to residen

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• Going Forth

  As anxious as I am about graduation, I realize how fortunate I am to have received my college degree at Georgetown. The late night paper writing and the early morning rush to internships have given me

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• In Vino Vitalis? In Wine There Is Life?

  The expression in vino veritas — “in wine there is truth” — amuses R. Scott Turner, M.D., Ph.D., but he is more prone to quote in vino vitalis — “in wine there is life.” That’s because Turner, Directo

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• Medical Waste As Informative Art

  Caroline Wellbery, M.D., an associate professor of family medicine, used to give little thought to the medical waste generated in the service of health care. But that was before Wellbery, well-known f

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• A Total Response for Stroke

  Last summer, southern Maryland’s Gary Willis was enjoying a bike ride when he felt a sudden, overwhelming heaviness in his arm. Unable to react, he collapsed on the side of the road—Willis was having

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