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Smartphone Apps Not So Smart at Helping Users Avoid or Achieve Pregnancy
WASHINGTON — You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study. A review of nearly 100 fertility awareness apps finds that most don’t employ evidence-based methodology.
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Georgetown Institute Launches Real-Time Study of Smartphone Fertility App Use
WASHINGTON — In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) are recruiting as many as 1,200 women to study, in real time, a smartphone app that calculates a woman’s chance for pregnancy on a daily basis.
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In Mice, Daughters of Overweight Dads Have Altered Breast Tissue, Higher Cancer Risk
WASHINGTON — Obese male mice and normal weight female mice produce female pups that are overweight at birth through childhood, and have delayed development of their breast tissue as well as increased rates of breast cancer.
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“Disease Outbreak Guarantees” – A Proposed Mechanism for Enhancing Public Health Capacity
WASHINGTON — What if private companies could obtain some coverage to protect their foreign investments in developing countries against crippling infectious disease outbreaks such as Ebola? The possible path to offering disease outbreak guarantees is an idea being posed by two global health researchers who suggest that a mechanism for establishing such an instrument could be tied to public health investments.
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PLOS Medicine Policy Forum: Direct-to-Consumer Marketing to People with Hemophilia
The manner in which pharmaceutical companies market their products to people who have hemophilia appears unprecedented and direct-to-consumer marketing should be examined by regulators, say researchers who reviewed documents, including consumer-oriented materials, produced by the makers of hemophilia treatment products.
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In the brain, one area sees familiar words as pictures, another sounds out words
Skilled readers can quickly recognize words when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts which functions separately from an area that processes the sounds of written words, say GUMC neuroscientists. The visual dictionary idea rebuts a common theory that our brain needs to “sounds out” words each time we see them.
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Georgetown Opens Six-Week Camp for Children With Math and Reading Difficulties
Does your child struggle with math and reading? If so, consider a special camp this summer hosted by Georgetown University Medical Center.
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Georgetown Data Scientist Comments on Biden's Announcement on Open Genomics Database
CHICAGO — Vice President Joe Biden will reportedly announce the launch of a cancer database with genomic data and other patient information called “Genomic Data Commons” that will be open to researchers. Biden will discuss the effort when he addresses attendees at the 2016 American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago about the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
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GI Cancers Alliance Launches to Elevate Patients’ Voices Against Gastrointestinal Cancers
CHICAGO — Twenty cancer advocacy groups from around the United States announce the formation of the GI Cancers Alliance, committed to the fight against gastrointestinal cancers, which include many of the leading cancer killers. The groups’ leadership met June 4 during the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago to elect its chairs.
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Georgetown University and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research Offer Fellowship in Regulatory Science
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK — Georgetown University Medical Center and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research announce a fellowship in regulatory science that will promote postgraduate training in the Parkinson’s research field to optimize clinical trial design and support approval of novel therapies.
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