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Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit – It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells
Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have found that sunlight, through a mechanism separate than vitamin D production, energizes T cells that play a central role in human immunity. Their findings, published today in Scientific Reports, suggest how the skin, the body’s largest organ, stays alert to the many microbes that can nest there.
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Patient Prostate Tissue Used to Create Unique Model of Prostate Cancer Biology
For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both normal and primary cancerous prostate cells from a patient, and then implant a million of the cancer cells into a mouse to track how the tumor progresses. The achievement, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who led the research, represents a critical advance in the effort to understand the origin and drivers of this puzzling cancer — the most common in men.
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Smoking Down, Number of Lives Saved Up as More Countries Embrace Tobacco Control Measures
Between 2008 and 2014, more than 53 million people in 88 countries stopped smoking due to tobacco control measures, which means that more than 22 million smoking-related deaths have been averted, say researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Georgetown’s Cancer Center Director Praises Passage of 21st Century Cures Act
The U.S. Senate voted to pass the 21st Century Cures Act this afternoon – a vote that follows passage in the House last week. Louis M. Weiner, MD, director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University says the bill is critical to moving the needle on cancer treatments
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Georgetown Lombardi Hosts Patient/Physician Symposium Focused on GI Cancers
The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts its 7th Annual “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer,” a symposium for medical professionals, patients and advocates, Dec. 1-3, 2016.
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Georgetown Team Sets Off to Antarctica in Search of Traces of Ancient Life
A quest to understand if and how life can endure in extreme cold— on Earth and, perhaps one day, on Mars — is sending a team of Georgetown University researchers to Antarctica to search for, and then sequence, ancient bacteria.
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Thanksgiving Conversation Survival Guide Post-Election
Preparing dinner for a house packed with hungry family members on Thanksgiving Day can be stressful enough, but pepper it with conversation about politics and the 2016 election earlier this month, and the day could spoil easily.
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Georgetown University Medical Center Convocation Colloquium To Focus On Global Health
What is academia’s role and responsibility in addressing global health priorities? That is the central theme to be discussed at Georgetown University Medical Center’s (GUMC) Ninth Annual Convocation Colloquium titled Building Global Health Capacity at Georgetown: Responsibilities and Priorities on Thursday, Nov. 17.
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Let’s “Get Smart About Antibiotics” Week
The discovery of antibiotics remains one of the most important medical advances to date, but overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics has led to many infections becoming resistant to treatment.
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Volunteers Needed to Evaluate Sesame Street’s Autism Initiative
Parents of children with autism under the age of six are invited to participate in a new study designed to evaluate “Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children.” The initiative, developed by Sesame Workshop, is designed to reduce stigma and build understanding about autism spectrum disorder.
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