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Animal Study Shows Why Long Time Consumption of Soyfoods Reduces Breast Cancer Recurrence
PHILADELPHIA — Women diagnosed with breast cancer are often told not to eat soyfoods or soy-based supplements because they can interfere with anti-estrogen treatment. But new research being presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2015 could eventually impact that advice, because in animals, a long history of eating soyfoods boosts the immune response against breast tumors, reducing cancer recurrence.
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Georgetown Medical Students Get Buzzed for Childhood Cancer Research
More than two dozen Georgetown University School of Medicine students will “brave the shave” to raise money for childhood cancer research. They’ll join more than 40,000 so-called “crazy head shaving people” from around the world who have shaved their heads for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation this year. Student organizers expect more than 100 people to be in attendance, including pediatric cancer patients and their families for the annual event, which also includes food, music and a silent auction.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: What are the Ethical and Legal Issues Generated by the BRAIN Initiative?
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative launched by the Obama Administration gives rise to three critical bioethical issues: the capacity for consent, questions of cognitive enhancement and the use — and misuse — of neuroscience in the legal system. These issues were highlighted in a recent report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues titled Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society. A contributing author of the report, Stephen L. Hauser, MD, joins a half-day symposium to address these issues at Georgetown University Medical Center on April 27.
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Understanding Heart Attack and Stroke Risk in Children with Type 1 Diabetes
WASHINGTON – It’s a little known fact: heart attack is the leading cause of death for people younger than 40 who have type 1 diabetes. Diabetes is a risk factor for both heart attacks and strokes; more than a third of those with type 1 diabetes die before age 55 from some form of cardiovascular disease. To understand more about risk factors in young patients, Georgetown University is looking for both children with type 1 diabetes and healthy children, ages 12 to 18, to help with an important new study.
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After Learning New Words, Brain Sees Them as Pictures
WASHINGTON — When we look at a known word, our brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing to be processed. That’s the finding from a Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, which shows the brain learns words quickly by tuning neurons to respond to a complete word, not parts of it.
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Can Facial Plastic Surgery Make You More Likeable?
WASHINGTON — Facial plastic surgery may do more than make you look youthful. It could change — for the better — how people perceive you. The first study of its kind to examine perception after plastic surgery finds that women who have certain procedures are perceived as having greater social skills and are more likeable, attractive and feminine.
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WOMEN & WINE X
WASHINGTON – The 10th Annual Women & Wine event to support breast cancer research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2015.
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Georgetown Hosts Conference Focused on Ebola, Global Health Planning and Security
WASHINGTON – Georgetown University Hosts “Ebola and Beyond: Global Epidemics in our One Health World 2015” on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.
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Mechanistic Insight into Immortal Cells Could Speed Clinical Use
WASHINGTON — The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely – known as conditional reprogramming – has been deciphered and reported in the February 25th issue of PLOS ONE. Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say identifying the mechanisms of immortalization lays the groundwork for future clinical use of these cells.
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When Cancer Cells Stop Acting Like Cancer
WASHINGTON — Cancer cells crowded tightly together suddenly surrender their desire to spread, and this change of heart is related to a cellular pathway that controls organ size. These two stunning observations are reported today by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in the journal Oncogene.
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