All Posts: News Release

• Global Health Law, Policy Expert Says WHO May Need to Establish New Level of Public Health Emergency for Regional Outbreaks

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 14, 2019) — Today, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the recommendation of the Emergency Committee, declined to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Global health legal and policy expert Alexandra Phelan, SJD, LLM, LLB […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Ebola, global health, public health

• Indoor Tanning May Be an Addiction Abetted by Both Genetic and Psychiatric Factors

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, indoor tanning, melanoma

• Researchers Find Labels of U.S. Probiotic Products Lacking

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 4, 2019) — When it comes to buying probiotics, many product labels do not give consumers enough information to make an informed decision, according to a research team led by Georgetown University Medical Center. In their study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, investigators found that of 93 […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, probiotics

• Clinical Trial for Men With Osteoporosis Now Open for Volunteers

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 4, 2019) — Enrollment in a clinical trial testing a new treatment for men with osteoporosis is now open at Georgetown University Medical Center. Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue (brittle bones) that makes bones more fragile and likely to […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, male osteoporosis

• Significant ‘Knowledge Gap’ Exists in Use of Genetic Testing to Decide Cancer Treatment

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, genetic testing

• Patient Groups Untested in Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Found to Also Benefit

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

• Georgetown University Launches Clinical Trial for Lewy Body Dementia

  MEDIA CONTACT:(for members of the press only) Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu PATIENT INFORMATION:Joy Arellanomja6@gunet.georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 30, 2019) — Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the only known therapeutic (disease modifying) clinical trial for Lewy body dementia, a neurological disorder that affects a million people in the United States for which there are no approved […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, brain, Lewy body dementia, mind, neurology

• For Many HIV+ Women, Daily Survival Takes Precedence Over Viral Suppression

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 17, 2019) — According to scientists who study women infected with HIV, statistics often paint an impressionist view of the lives of these women that misses the granular detail that tells the real story. The imprecise big picture is that most of this population is doing a good job at […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, HIV, infectious disease, population health, public health, women's health

• Why Adults at Risk for Huntington’s Disease Choose Not to Learn if They Inherited Deadly Gene

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 16, 2019) — As many as 90 percent of individuals who have a parent with Huntington’s disease (HD) choose not to take a gene test that reveals if they will also develop the fatal disorder — and a new study details the reasons why. Understanding the “why” matters as new […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain research, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Huntington's disease, mind

• Georgetown University’s Cancer Center Receives Coveted ‘Comprehensive Cancer Center’ Status from the National Cancer Institute

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