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Justice in America for Native Americans
How do factors such as race, culture, issues with accessing legal representation, and resiliency contribute to injustices for Native Americans? These are some of the issues to be discussed at a panel at Georgetown University titled “Justice in America for Native Americans.”
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Georgetown Global Health Center Receives $3.5M Grant for Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
The Open Philanthropy Project has awarded a $3.5 million grant to the Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) at Georgetown University Medical Center to support research focused on improving U.S. and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness policy.
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Georgetown Announces Phase II Clinical Trial of Nilotinib for Parkinson’s Disease
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) today announces the launch of a phase II clinical trial to study the safety of the cancer drug nilotinib and its effects on clinical outcomes and biomarkers in people with Parkinson’s disease.
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Smoking Cessation Counseling Successful When Paired with Lung Cancer Screening
In the first successful randomized trial of its kind, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have provided preliminary evidence that telephone-based smoking cessation counseling given to smokers shortly after undergoing lung cancer screening can be effective at helping people stop smoking.
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First Ever Real-Time Efficacy Study on Fertility App Launched
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) announced today the launch of a year-long study to measure the efficacy of a new app, Dot™, for avoiding unintended pregnancy as compared to efficacy rates of other family planning methods.
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Toward Understanding When Eating Soy Might Help or Harm In Breast Cancer Treatment
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have used animal models to reveal new information about the impact – positive and negative – that soy consumption could have on a common breast cancer treatment.
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Mindfulness Meditation Training Lowers Biomarkers of Stress Response in Anxiety Disorder
GUMC researchers found that anxiety disorder patients had sharply reduced stress-hormone and inflammatory responses to a stressful situation after taking a mindfulness meditation course—whereas patients who took a non-meditation stress management course had worsened responses.
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Scientists Describe Lab Technique With Potential To Change Medicine and Research
Researchers who developed and tested a revolutionary laboratory technique that allows for the endless growth of normal and diseased cells in a laboratory are publicly sharing how the technique works.
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Georgetown Clinical Trial Testing Nilotinib in Alzheimer’s Disease Begins
A clinical trial to examine the effect of nilotinib on clinical outcomes and biomarkers in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease has opened at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).
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Large Pre-ACA Medicaid Expansion Did Not Level Health Disparities in Cancer Surgery
An analysis of the New York State’s Medicaid expansion, which predated the 2010 Affordable Care Act, finds substantial decrease in uninsured rate but little change in racial disparities when it comes to access to cancer surgery – a proxy for complex cancer care.
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