All Posts: News Release

• Exposure to Environmental PCBs Impairs Brain Function in Mice

  CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading to impaired function over long-term exposures, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center. Their study, believed to be the first to test polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in astrocytes — cells […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, environmental health, environmental toxins, neuroscience, PCBs

• Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer Influenced by Dual Action of Genes and RNA

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi

• Experts Show U.S. Foreign Policy Gains from a Presidential Pandemics Effort

  WASHINGTON (October 10, 2019) — Analysis from leading researchers shows there could be significant benefits from a presidentially led initiative focused on combatting pandemics. With the 2020 presidential race under way, the researchers provide new evidence on the potential for a proactive U.S. foreign policy effort to halt current pandemics, prevent new outbreaks from becoming […]

  Category: News Release Tags: climate change, global health, infectious disease, pandemic

• Virtual Review of Cancer Clinical Trial Treatment Options Quicker Than Conventional Methods

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical informatics, cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi

• Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia

  WASHINGTON (October 9, 2019) — New brain imaging research debunks a controversial theory about dyslexia that can impact how it is sometimes treated, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say. The cerebellum, a brain structure traditionally considered to be involved in motor function, has been implicated in the reading disability known as developmental dyslexia. However, this […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, dyslexia, learning disabilities, neuroimaging, neuroscience

• Georgetown Offers Multiple Clinical Trials for People with Lewy Body Dementia

  WASHINGTON (October 8, 2019) — Georgetown University Medical Center, a Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) Association Research Center of Excellence, is now offering three clinical trials to study new treatments for LBD, a disease often confused with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Lewy body dementia has similar symptoms to both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases — some people […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, Lewy body dementia, movement disorders, Translational Neurotherapeutics Program

• Mammography Unlikely to Benefit Older Women with Chronic Illnesses

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Georgetown Tobacco Control Expert Outlines Motivations of Altria-Juul Deal and Its Public Health Impact

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, e-cigarettes, Georgetown Lombardi, smoking

• Revealing the Molecular Engine That Drives Pancreatic Cancer Provides Ways to Turn It Off

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

• Recognizing the Toll of Oral Damage From Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Stem Cell Transplant

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, graft-versus-host disease, School of Nursing & Health Studies