All Posts: News Release

• Howard and Georgetown Universities To Launch Joint Medical Humanities Center Funded by Mellon Foundation Grant

  WASHINGTON (January 19, 2023) — The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Georgetown University and Howard University in the establishment of a center for medical humanities. The Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice will focus on reducing health disparities in Washington through leveraging methods […]

  Category: News Release Tags: collaboration, Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justic, health justice, interdisciplinary programs, medical humanities

• Drug Found to be Effective in Difficult to Treat Autoimmune Blood Disorder

  WASHINGTON (December 10, 2022) — Patients taking efgartigimod, a drug being studied for use to treat chronic primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), exhibited a significantly greater improvement in platelet counts which are essential to clotting and stopping bleeding, compared to those taking a placebo, according to results reported from the ADVANCE IV clinical trial, which was […]

  Category: News Release Tags: bleeding disorders, hematology, ITP

• Women with Elevated Breast Cancer Risk Could See Mortality Benefit from Estrogen-Blocking Drugs

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer research, estrogen blockers, Georgetown Lombardi

• Study in Mice Suggests that Expression of Estrogen-Related Gene Can Impact Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk and Prevention Strategies

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, Georgetown Lombardi

• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is as Effective as an Antidepressant Drug for Treating Anxiety Disorders

  WASHINGTON (November 9, 2022) — A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as use of the gold-standard drug — the common antidepressant escitalopram — for patients with anxiety disorders, according to results of a first-of-its-kind, randomized clinical trial led by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. The findings appear in JAMA Psychiatry on […]

  Category: News Release Tags: anxiety disorders, mind, mindfulness meditation

• BellRinger, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Inaugural Bike Ride to End Cancer, Commences Saturday

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, philanthropy

• After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side

  As Children with Left-hemisphere Strokes Grow Up, Ability to Understand Language Shifts to Right side. WASHINGTON (October 10, 2022) — A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center found that, for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant’s brain […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain plasticity, stroke

• The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Publishes a Checklist to Maximize the Benefit to Patients for Clinical Trials in Immuno-oncology

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, clinical trials, immunotherapy

• Long-term Study Supports Link Between Inflammation and Cognitive Problems in Older Breast Cancer Survivors

  Category: News Release Tags: aging, breast cancer, cancer, survivorship

• Advanced Melanoma Survival Improves Significantly When Immunotherapy is Given Before Targeted Therapy

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, immunotherapy, melanoma