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New Drug Prevents Liver Damage, Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice on High-Fat Diet

January 21, 2020

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Global Health Security Experts See Challenges With Screening Airline Passengers from China for Virus

WASHINGTON (January 17, 2020) — Georgetown University global health experts say the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to screen airline…

January 17, 2020

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Subject Matter Experts

WASHINGTON — Georgetown University professors offer expertise for journalists seeking interviews in a variety of subjects related to COVID-19 (previously known as 2019…

January 17, 2020

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Neurologic Drug Combined with Blood Pressure Medicine Reduces Breast Tumor Development in Mice

December 30, 2019

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Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hackensack Meridian Health Join New York Genome Center as Associate Members

December 19, 2019

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Zooming in on Brain Circuits Allows Researchers to Stop Seizure Activity

WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can “switch off” epileptic…

December 16, 2019

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Nilotinib Appears Safe in Parkinson’s Trial; Drug Thought to Allow Dopamine Replenishment

WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and…

December 16, 2019

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Veterans Study Suggests Two Subtypes of Gulf War Illness

WASHINGTON (December 12, 2019) — Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct…

December 12, 2019

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Palbociclib is Safe for Women with Advanced Breast Cancer Who Have Unique Gene Alteration

December 11, 2019

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Remission of Follicular Lymphoma for Two-Plus Years Indicates Disease-Free Status that Could Be Lifelong

December 8, 2019