All Posts: News Release

• 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

• Georgetown Lombardi Receives Transformational NCI Grant to Support Community Outreach and Research

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, community outreach, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities, population health, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Bacterial Resistance to Two Critical Antibiotics Widespread in Southeast Asia

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (August 12, 2019) — Resistance to two critical antibiotic types, one a “drug of last resort” when all others fail against some “superbugs,” are widely distributed in Southeast Asia, raising the risk of untreatable infections, say a team of investigators led by Georgetown University Medical Center. The study, published in the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: antibiotic resistance, global health, population health

• Study Shows Why a Common Form of Immunotherapy Fails, and Suggests Solution

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

• Georgetown Technique Using Urine Suggests Individualized Bladder Cancer Treatment Possible

  Category: News Release Tags: bladder cancer, cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi

• So, it’s Hot. Do Heat Warnings about Health Apply to Me?

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON (July 19, 2019) — It’s hot!  For many young, active folks, the warnings about taking care in the heat might sound overblown. But for very young children, people with chronic illnesses and older folks, excessive heat can lead to problems quickly. With the excessive heat watches and warning […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Dehydration, Heat