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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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A Brain System that Appears To Compensate for Autism, OCD, and Dyslexia
WASHINGTON — Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders — autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and specific language impairment (SLI) — appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying on a single powerful and nimble system in the brain known as declarative memory.
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Georgetown Selected Home to CDC Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected Georgetown University’s School of Nursing & Health Studies as the new academic home for the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, a regional Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.
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Georgetown Consensus Group Issues Recommendations for NIH On Sex Diversity in Research
WASHINGTON — A diverse group of experts from academia, industry and advocacy is offering recommendations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the federal research institution works to increase the inclusion of female animal models and achieve a balance in the use of male and female cells and animals in preclinical studies. FASEB Journal published the recommendations online today (and will appear in the May edition).
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