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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…
January 23, 2017
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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…
January 23, 2017
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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…
January 20, 2017
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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…
January 18, 2017
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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…
January 18, 2017
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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…
January 5, 2017
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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…
December 19, 2016
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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…
December 16, 2016
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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…
December 8, 2016
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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…
December 8, 2016