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Could Blood pressure drugs have a role in Alzheimer's Disease treatment?
WASHINGTON — In laboratory neuronal cultures, an FDA-approved drug used to treat high blood pressure reduced cell damage often linked to Alzheimer’s disease, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and the National Institutes of Health.
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Georgetown Lombardi Urges HPV Vaccination for Cancer Prevention
WASHINGTON — In response to low national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center joined with other top cancer centers in a joint statement urging increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer. These institutions collectively recognize insufficient vaccination as a public health threat and call upon the nations’ health care providers, young adults and parents to take advantage of the opportunity to prevent cancers.
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Zika Virus – Subject Matter Experts
Zika virus information continues to flow from various countries’ health ministries and other sources. Georgetown University professors are paying special attention to this global health threat and are available to provide context and expert comment.
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Georgetown’s Liza Gold Joins NewsChannel 8's Roundtable Discussion on Gun Violence
WASHINGTON — Georgetown forensic psychiatrist and mental health expert Liza Gold, MD, will join a roundtable discussion on gun violence that will air live on NewsChannel 8, Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 7pm.
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Online Quiz: How Well Do You “Know Your Bod?”
WASHINGTON – “You live with your body everyday, but do you really know it?”
That’s the first question from a new online quiz: “KnowYourBod.org.”
The 10 true or false question digital quiz, produced by the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University Medical Center, probes the user’s understanding of fertility awareness.Category: News Release
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Georgetown Professors: Congress Made a “Scientific Judgment for Which it is Distinctly Unqualified”
WASHINGTON – Two Georgetown University professors say a section of the recently passed Congressional spending bill effectively undermines science and the health of women. Their JAMA Viewpoint, “A Public Health Framework for Screening Mammography: Evidence-Based Versus Politically Mandated Care,” was published online today.
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Nutrition Professor: New Dietary Guidelines are a Political, Corporate Spin on Evidence-Based Nutrition
Thomas Sherman, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, offers this commentary originally posted on the “Georgetown Food Studies” blog about the recently released Dietary Guidelines. Sherman teaches metabolism, nutrition and endocrinology to first-year medical students.
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Georgetown Cancer Screening Expert: Congress Has Already Overruled USPSTF Mammography Recommendations
WASHINGTON (Jan. 7, 2015) — As the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) prepares its final breast cancer screening recommendations, Georgetown family medicine physician Kenneth Lin, MD, MPH, points out in this opinion piece that, regardless of what the USPSTF decides, the U.S. Congress has already preemptively overruled them.
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New Analyses Confirms Biennial Mammography Starting at Age 50 Optimal for Average Women
WASHINGTON — New and comprehensive analyses from six independent research teams examining breast cancer screening intervals have produced a unanimous finding — that mammography screening every two years for average risk women ages 50 to 74 offers a favorable balance of benefits to harm.
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Georgetown Researcher Leads Effort to Decode Anti-malarial Drug Resistance
WASHINGTON — Even as the global malarial pandemic appears to be on a decline, drug resistant malarial parasites are on the rise, says an infectious disease researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center, who is taking the lead on a multi-institutional effort to investigate the causes of this growing concern.
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