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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

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