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Georgetown Global Health Experts in Infectious Disease Available to Comment on WHO PHEIC Meeting
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 12, 2019) — Today, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the…
April 12, 2019
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Personalized Medicine Clinical Trial Underway for Type of Incontinence Common in Women
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 2, 2019) — A novel clinical trial aims to reverse the cause of a common problem among older women — accidental…
April 2, 2019
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Georgetown Lombardi Director Louis Weiner Receives AACR 2019 Distinguished Public Service Award
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March 31, 2019
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Novel Brain Map Tracks Early Brain Atrophy From HIV Infection
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 28, 2019) — A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas including a primary…
March 28, 2019
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A Billion People Will Be Newly Exposed to Diseases Like Dengue Fever as World Temperatures Rise
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 28, 2019) — As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the…
March 28, 2019
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Georgetown Researchers Launch ‘Nari Paila,’ Mobile Games to Share Information on Fertility Awareness, Family Planning in Nepal
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 24, 2019) — This month, Georgetown researchers launched a series of mobile games in Nepal to reach young people…
March 24, 2019
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Georgetown-Led Study Leads to First FDA-Approved Drug in Decades to Improve Survival in Small Cell Lung Cancer
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 18, 2019) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval today of atezolizumab (Tecentriq®, Genentech) in…
March 18, 2019
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Fertility App ‘Dot’ Found to be As Effective Other Family Planning Methods
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 18, 2019) — Results of a first-of-its-kind prospective study with a family planning app find it to be as…
March 18, 2019
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Researchers Decode How Cancer Drug Works in Brains of Parkinson’s Disease Patients
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 12, 2019) — Laboratory analysis from the first arm of a phase II clinical trial testing the use of nilotinib in…
March 12, 2019
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Large Study Reveals Long-Term Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with High Dose, Short Term Radiation
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (February 8, 2019) — A large national study examining a radiation treatment for prostate cancer —…
February 8, 2019