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Understanding Health Care Needs Among Rural Liberians
WASHINGTON — As Liberia rebuilds a health care system decimated by the 2014 Ebola outbreak, understanding precisely how far citizens live from health facilities and its…
June 29, 2015
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Macy Foundation President’s Grant Supports Refugee Health Education at Georgetown
WASHINGTON — The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has awarded a President’s Grant to Georgetown family medicine physician Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, to create a…
June 29, 2015
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The Men's Event XVI
WASHINGTON (June 18 2015) – The 16th annual Washington, DC Men’s Event to support research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is scheduled for,…
June 18, 2015
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JAMA VIEWPOINT: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: A Global Health Challenge
WASHINGTON – The ongoing outbreak in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) is an important reminder that the Middle East respiratory virus (MERS-CoV) requires constant…
June 17, 2015
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Probing Ways to Convince Young Women Not to Use Indoor Tanning
WASHINGTON — Messages with images depicting the harsh realities of melanoma are more powerful than the text-only warning required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
June 17, 2015
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MEDIA ADVISORY
In anticipation of the Pope’s encyclical this week, Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at…
June 16, 2015
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State Regulations for Indoor Tanning Could Lead to a National Regulatory Framework
WASHINGTON — A national regulatory framework designed to prevent and limit indoor tanning is needed to alleviate the cancer burden and reduce the billions in financial…
May 27, 2015
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Experimental Immunotherapy Shows High Response Rate in Advanced Lung Cancer
WASHINGTON — An early phase study testing an anti-PDL1 agent in combination with standard chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer has provided…
May 14, 2015
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Soprano Marquita Lister Delivers “Music for the Mind”
International opera star Marquita Lister, accompanied by pianist Marvin Mills and baritone Robert Cantrell, performs at Georgetown University May 20 for the annual Music for the…
May 12, 2015
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Unraveling the Mystery of α-synuclein in Neurodegenerative Disease and Reversing its Course
WASHINGTON — A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center has shown how a protein, known to accumulate in Parkinson’s disease and other…
May 10, 2015