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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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Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration
As the United States prepares for new leadership, global health thought leaders will convene January 10 to discuss ways the Trump administration can contribute to pandemic preparedness, global health security, and domestic readiness and resilience.
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Steroid Originally Discovered in the Dogfish Shark Attacks Parkinson’s-Related Toxin in Animal Model
A naturally occurring steroid made by the dogfish shark prevents the buildup of a lethal protein in animal studies, reports an international team of researchers. The clustering of this protein, alpha-synuclein (α-synuclein), is the hallmark of Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, suggesting a new potential compound for therapeutic research.
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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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