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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…

April 13, 2017

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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…

March 23, 2017

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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…

February 15, 2017

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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…

February 8, 2017

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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…

February 6, 2017

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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