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Resveratrol Appears to Restore Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity in Alzheimer’s Disease

TORONTO (July 27, 2016) — Resveratrol, given to Alzheimer’s patients, appears to restore the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, reducing the ability of harmful immune…

July 23, 2016

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More Evidence in Quest to Repurpose Cancer Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease

TORONTO – An FDA approved drug to treat renal cell carcinoma appears to reduce levels of a toxic brain protein linked to dementia in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson&;…

July 23, 2016

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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…

July 14, 2016

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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.…

July 14, 2016

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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…

July 14, 2016

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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…

July 6, 2016

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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…

July 5, 2016

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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…

June 30, 2016

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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)…

June 24, 2016

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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…

June 24, 2016