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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.
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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
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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.
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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 […]
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Novel Compound Turns Off Mutant Cancer Gene in Animals with Leukemia
WASHINGTON — A compound discovered and developed by a team of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers that halts cancer in animals with Ewing sarcoma and prostate cancer appears to work against some forms of leukemia, too. That finding and the team’s latest work was published Oct. 8 in Oncotarget.
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NFLPA’S One Team for the Cure Shirts Back for 2015 Benefiting Georgetown Lombardi
WASHINGTON – One Team For The Cure shirts benefiting the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C. are now on sale online through One Team Shop (www.oneteamshop.com), the NFLPA’s e-commerce store featuring officially licensed player merchandise of more than 1,800 NFL players.
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Neuroscientists Uncover Brain Abnormalities Responsible for Tinnitus and Chronic Pain
WASHINGTON — Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and Germany’s Technische Universität München have uncovered the brain malady responsible for tinnitus and for chronic pain — the uncomfortable, sometimes agonizing sensations that persist long after an initial injury.
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TBI Triggers Liver to Produce Protein Tied to Inflammation; Hypertension Drug Blocks It
WASHINGTON — A new animal study shows that traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects the body as well as the brain and that treatment with hypertension drugs blocks the production of proteins related to inflammation.
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Georgetown Professor’s State Department Grant Focuses on "One Health"
WASHINGTON — Identifying emerging infectious disease threats and incorporating biosecurity and bioethics in the development of medical technology are the foci of a new grant from the U.S. Department of State awarded to Georgetown’s Irene Jillson, PhD.
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Resveratrol Impacts Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker
WASHINGTON — The largest nationwide clinical trial to study high-dose resveratrol long-term in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease found that a biomarker that declines when the disease progresses was stabilized in people who took the purified form of resveratrol.
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