All Posts: News Release

• 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

• 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