All Posts: News Release
-
MEDIA ADVISORY: Georgetown Lombardi Hosts Patient/Physician Symposium Focused on GI Cancers
WASHINGTON – The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer,” a symposium for medical professionals, patients and advocates, Dec. 3-5, 2015 at Georgetown University.
Category: News Release
-
Brain Scan Reveals Cognitive Deficits in Older “Cognitively Normal” HIV+ Individuals
WASHINGTON — Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found in a small study that although a group of HIV+ older individuals scored “cognitively normal” in standard neuropsychology testing, a scan of their brains tells a different story.
Category: News Release
-
Righting a Wrong? Right Side of Brain Can Compensate for Post-Stroke Loss of Speech
WASHINGTON — After a debate that has lasted more than 130 years, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that loss of speech from a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain can be recovered on the back, right side of the brain. This contradicts recent notions that the right hemisphere interferes with recovery.
Category: News Release
-
Microbiome Expert Martin Blaser to Receive Georgetown’s Cura Personalis Award Nov. 3
WASHINGTON — Georgetown University Medical Center will bestow its highest honor, the Cura Personalis Award, upon Martin J. Blaser, MD, a world-renowned microbiome researcher and clinician.
Category: News Release
-
Georgetown Professor Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health Law
CHICAGO — Lawrence Gostin, JD, LLD (h.c.), Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law, was honored today for his “Lifetime Achievement in Public Health Law” by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Law Section. The award was presented in Chicago.
Gostin, who holds Georgetown University’s highest academic rank of University Professor, is also a professor of medicine at Georgetown’s School of Medicine.
Category: News Release
-
Email, Text or Web Portal? New Study Probes Patients’ Preferences for Receiving Test Results
WASHINGTON — The results of common medical tests are sometimes delivered to patients by email, letters or voice mail, but are these the most preferred methods? According to one of the first studies to look at this question, the answer is no.
Category: News Release
-
Stimulating Specific Brain Area Could Help Defrost Arms Frozen by Stroke
CHICAGO — Little can be done to help the hundreds of thousands of people whose severe strokes have left them with one arm stuck close to the sides of their bodies like a broken wing. A 30-patient study by Washington researchers, however, has found that magnetically stimulating a specific part of their brains can affect arm movements — raising hope that, in the future, a short course of therapy targeting this area could help to free the arm and restore some use of the stroke-affected limb.
Category: News Release
-
Devon Still Named 2015 Recipient of NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the NFL Players Association will honor Still for his family’s courageous battle with cancer and his advocacy on behalf of cancer patients
Category: News Release
-
29th Annual Lombardi Gala to Benefit Cancer Research
The 29th Annual Lombardi Gala, a celebration to benefit Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, will be held Saturday, Oct. 24, from 6:00 to 11:30 p.m. at the Washington Hilton.
Category: News Release
-
Cancer Drug Improved Cognition and Motor Skills in Small Parkinson’s Clinical Trial
CHICAGO (Oct. 17, 2015) — An FDA-approved drug for leukemia improved cognition, motor skills and non-motor function in patients with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia in a small phase I clinical trial, report researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in Washington. In addition, the drug, nilotinib (Tasigna® by Novartis), led to statistically significant […]
Category: News Release