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NHS Alumna Focuses on Health Policy, Public Health
Erika Rogan (NHS’06) says the School of Nursing & Health Studies gave her a solid academic foundation in various elements that make up the health care field. The young…
February 11, 2014
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Celebrating Life and Health for 14 Years, One Woman at a Time
Holding up the plastic model of a female torso, Georgeen Newland stands comfortably in front of two dozen women seated in a circle at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer…
February 11, 2014
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Ambassador Addresses HIV/AIDS Research Conference
China has greatly stepped up its response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the past decade, said Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD, who oversees implementation of the U.S. President&…
February 11, 2014
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HIV Reveals General Theory of Dementia
It was a puzzle. Individuals infected with HIV who also were known to abuse drugs such as cocaine and morphine were developing the telltale signs of dementia — even though…
February 11, 2014
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Food For Thought
The basis of all brain functions such as learning, memory, planning, organization, attention, reaction time, and emotions, involve tiny electrical impulses and chemical signals…
February 11, 2014
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Newport Leads New Brain Center
Some plastic things are more, well, “plastic” than other plastic things. Take nylon, which flows, bending freely. Polycarbonate – the stuff in eyeglasses &…
February 11, 2014
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Life on the Wards
“The patient is a 47 year old with metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma locally invading the stomach, pancreas, and left adrenal gland who came to the hospital…
February 11, 2014
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Touch, Empower, Encourage, Inspire
Adeeb Barqawi uses the metaphor of a birdcage to explain why this recent graduate from Georgetown University Medical Center is waiting two years before he attends medical school.…
February 11, 2014
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Stoto Named AcademyHealth Senior Scholar
In August, Michael Stoto, Ph.D., professor of health systems administration at NHS, begins his work at the 4,300-member organization that seeks to use health services research to…
February 11, 2014
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Health Economist Joins Georgetown
A well-known health economist says she wanted to join the faculty of the School of Nursing & Health Studies because of the school’s mission. “The school’…
February 11, 2014