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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…
March 25, 2015
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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…
March 23, 2015
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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…
March 21, 2015
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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,…
March 9, 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,.…
March 9, 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…
February 23, 2015
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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…
February 16, 2015
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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…
February 12, 2015
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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…
February 8, 2015
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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…
January 27, 2015