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Public Health Benefits of E-cigarette Use Tend to Outweigh the Harms
A modeling study by top tobacco control experts finds that e-cigarettes are likely to provide public health benefits based on “conservative estimates” of the likely uptake of vaping and smoking by adolescents and young adults.
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Center for Child and Human Development Honors Renowned Pediatrician
Jack Shonkoff, MD, is the director of Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child.
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NEJM: “TBI’s Long-Term Follow-up — Slow Progress in Science and Recovery”
WASHINGTON – Eleven years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine, medical journalist Susan Okie, MD, first introduced readers to two U.S. Army veterans who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq, and the challenges they faced in the recovery period after returning home. In the July 14 issue of the NEJM, Okie describes her follow-up interviews with the soldiers, and the slow journey to recovery that continues more than a decade later.
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Study Tests New Breast Cancer Drug in African American Women
WASHINGTON — The first clinical trial to test a newly approved breast cancer drug specifically in African American patients is now enrolling patients at six institutions in Washington, DC, Maryland, Alabama and New Jersey.
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Study: Cancer Drug Restores Brain Dopamine, Reduces Toxic Proteins in Parkinson, Dementia
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (July 11, 2016) — A small proof of concept study provides molecular evidence that an FDA-approved drug for leukemia significantly increased brain dopamine and reduced toxic proteins linked to disease progression in patients with Parkinson’s disease or dementia with Lewy bodies. Dopamine is the brain chemical (neurotransmitter) lost as a result […]
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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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