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Taking a “Conversations Approach” to Promote Breastfeeding and Safe Sleep
The National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep (NAPPSS), a coalition supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), aims to help new parents by…
October 24, 2016
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Georgetown Family Medicine Physician Elected to National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine has elected Andrew William Bazemore, MD, MPH, director, Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, and…
October 21, 2016
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Taking Aim at Breast Cancer in Underserved Communities
Undergraduate Cristeen Anyanwu (C’18) uses the Scott MacPherson Stapleton Award to make an impact on the health of underserved communities in the Washington, D.C. area…
October 17, 2016
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CBCC Supporters Celebrate the Gift of Life at Annual Breakfast Benefit
About 180 people, including breast cancer survivors and their loved ones, attended the 9th Annual Gift of Life Breakfast Benefit on October 14 at the Ronald Reagan Building and…
October 14, 2016
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Striving to Show the Big Picture on Cancer
October 14th was the fifth annual Biomedical Informatics Symposium at the Georgetown University Conference Center, bringing together likeminded bioinformatics specialists to talk…
October 13, 2016
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Nobel Prize-winning Science is Key to Georgetown Neurotherapeutic Research
Today, the 2016 Nobel Prize in the category of medicine or physiology was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy,” a…
October 3, 2016
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GWIM Celebrates Milestone of 100 Women Professors
Even as Georgetown Women in Medicine celebrate 100 female school of medicine faculty members, they vow to work toward greater.…
October 3, 2016
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Clinical Trial Underway to Test Innovative Cancer Treatment Based on Georgetown Discoveries
This August, the first patient in a multi-center clinical trial being conducted by Oncternal Therapeutics began receiving an innovative new investigational cancer therapy based…
September 30, 2016
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Georgetown Researchers Report on the Science of Stroke Recovery
As part of the so-called “stroke belt,” Washington, D.C. has high incidence of stroke and cardiovascular disease. At “Music for the Mind Presents Brain…
September 28, 2016
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Learning Societies Promote Student Mentoring and Friendships
In addition to the eponymous article of clothing, first-year students participating in Georgetown’s annual White Coat Ceremony receive a special pin -- one that indicates…
September 28, 2016