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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 passengers…

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-nCoV…

January 17, 2020

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

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December 30, 2019

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

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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 seizures.…

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 well…

December 16, 2019

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Veterans Study Suggests Two Subtypes of Gulf War Illness

Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome that suggests a…

December 12, 2019